Posted on 05/27/2009 11:08:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We’re getting a lot of e-mail on this story, and it’s not hard to see why. Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas took down an American flag after getting complaints from Debbie McLucas’ co-workers and patients, who thought the display of the flag was offensive. McLucas, whose daughter is serving in Iraq, wonders whether her daughter has risked her life for nothing:
When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. “I was just totally speechless. I was like, ‘You’re kidding me,’” McLucas said.
McLucas’ husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.
Stifling a cry, McLucas said, “I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing.”
McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie’s flag herself.
“The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor,” McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher ups had told her some patients’ families and visitors had also complained.
“I was told it wouldn’t matter if it was only one person,” she said. “It would have to come down.”
In one very limited sense. McLucas makes the wrong argument. The property belongs to her employer, not herself, and they have the right to set the conditions of the workplace, within the safety regulations of the local, state, and federal laws. Technically, she doesn’t have the right to display the flag at her workstation, and the large flag she displays for the camera might have provided a basis for complaint on limited space or other considerations.
However, according to McLucas, that wasn’t the reason they took down her flag.
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I would like to know who was offended...maybe some La Raza supporters?
Maybe a Nation of Islam Supporter?
McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa.
Send the supervisor’s ass back to Africa and the patients back across the Rio Grande.
People just need to have their asses kicked, that’s all.
Please, no lectures about private businesses being able to do whatever they want. That ship has sailed.
LOL....Good one.
Well boss, I’m offended by the collective stupidity around here, so when you figure out who’s going to win in court, get back to me, will you?
Agreed 100%
Someone needs to be fired, and not the person who put up the flag!
RIIGGHT. The flag wasn't big enough apparently.
The Mexican Invasion offends me. But saying that is a hate crime. Muslims who want to hide my wife’s face and convert or kill me offend me, also, but that is also a hate crime.
An illegal Kenyan in the White House offends me, also.
37,000 white women raped by blacks vs. 200 black women raped by whites per year offends me...but saying the truth is not PC.
Before this is over, there will be bloodshed, there is no other choice, the Left is insane and suicidal.
U.S. Flag Found on Floor After Immigrant Complains Employee invited to rehang flag
McLucas said her supervisor removed the flag for her and placed it on the floor -- an egregious breach of flag etiquette, aside from being an offensive gesture to most Americans.
Many on the left are sooooooo offended by the sight of an American flag. Now they equate this with being nationalistic= FASCIST and militaristic. I have a good few shirts with our flag on them, one in commemoration of 9/11 and you should see the looks I get. Now there isn’t anything written on them that could be interpretated as militaristic or offensive. If I wore a Che shirt or a Peace sign shirt, they’d have no problem. I do confess to wearing ty dye shirts...LOL
I am suuuurre they share “their love of country and we appreciate the service of their family members”
What a crock of BS.
Keep up the calls and emails. People like this need to be terminated. Period. Sick of the anti-American crap.
http://www.kindredhealthcare.com/Press/2009-05-27.asp
Kindred Hospital Mansfield has a great deal of appreciation for the service that many of our employees and their families have given to their country. We honor our veterans and active military through a variety of benefits and service programs. This was an isolated incident between two employees that we are working to resolve amicably. Both employees have family members who have served in the military. The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized. We have invited the employee to put the flag back up. We share their love of country and we appreciate the service of their family members as well as all members of the armed forces.
So is the supervisor going to be disciplined and/or sent to diversity training (or whatever they're calling it this week)?
Well they let the flag go back up, but the incident never should have happened.
Kindred is a rather big private (for profit) hospital company. They ought to know better.
Hopefully....canned!
Wednesday morning, however, our story received nationwide attention. We have received dozens of emails and comments from people who had something to say about it. And a receptionist at Kindred’s headquarters told us they received many phone calls.
Then, late Wednesday morning, Kindred posted on its website a statement about the incident. It reads, in part: “The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized. We have invited the employee to put the flag back up.”
Well, if size was the problem, why are they now not concerned about it? I think that if Kindred had told her to use a smaller flag, she would have had no problem in complying. Looks like Kindred wants to apply some rapid healing to their collective rear end after having it kicked all over the media today. Anyway, they came to the right decision … eventually.
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