What difference does it make?
Posted on 09/15/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Michigan school district called the historic “Betsy Ross” flag a symbol of hate and profusely apologized after students displayed the flag at a recent high school football game.
“To wave a historical version of our flag, that to some symbolizes exclusion and hate, injects hostility and confusion to an event where no one intended to do so,” wrote Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm in a letter to parents.
The controversy surrounding the 13-star flag erupted on Sept. 9th during a football game between predominantly white Forest Hills Central High School and predominantly black Ottawa Hills High School, MLive reports.
Forest Hills students not only waved a “Betsy Ross” flag, but they also displayed a Donald Trump banner (behavior guaranteed to get you labeled deplorable).
At least one parent was “shocked” to hear students chanting, “USA” and wearing red, white and blue.
Oh, the horror.
“You can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation,” said Briana Urena-Ravelo, co-founder of the Grand Rapids Black Lives Matter group.
Ms. Urena-Ravelo, who represents a group that specializes in overt intentional racism and intimidation, told television station WOOD that the students intended to be racist.
“For these white kids from a white school to bring out a flag of the colonies with the ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump flag to a game with black students on the field, it’s all very obvious,” she told the television station.
Parent Matthew Patulski wrote a scathing Facebook diatribe – accusing students of “brandishing these symbols of nationalism and white supremacy.”
Supt. Behm fired off a wordy, two-page letter lecturing folks in the district about their “privilege” and apologizing to the inner city school.
“Whether our privileges are derived from the circumstances of our birth, our race, our geography, our work, or our wealth, our blind privileges can produce a poverty of perspective and understanding,” he wrote.
“Injecting partisan politics into a community football game and into a commemoration of the events of September 11th is inappropriate,” he wrote. ‘Parading our current United States flag in a manner that is inconsistent with proper etiquette is disrespectful to all who have served our nation.”
So let’s look at the facts:
1. The students wore red, white and blue because it was a “red, white and blue” theme night.
2. The students traditionally wear red, white and blue to commemorate Sept. 11th.
3. There are no local news reports of students using any sort of derogatory or racially offensive language.
4. The Betsy Ross flag is not racist.
5. A Trump “Make America Great Again” banner is not racist.
6. Supt. Daniel Behr is a pinhead
Parents and patriots in the Forest Hills Public Schools district should rise up and demand that the superintendent retract his offensive letter and apologize for smearing the brave teenagers who dared to show their American pride.
Oh, by the way – Mr. Patulski also took great offense because the students were chanting, “Go Green! Go White!”
“We were all quite taken aback by these loud chants,” he wrote.
That’s because the school colors are green and white, you self-righteous nincompoop.
Which IS the utilitarianism of the “nose ring”.
She presents herself as human-chattel and ultimately a slave.
She be so stoopid!
Selfies at the Graveyard
And this action is by another self-loathing white.
Read this - same guy:
The report, filed by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, takes the district to task for its shoddy investigation of both cases:
“The district did not investigate or respond to most of the subsequent complaints made by the parents regarding their allegations of ongoing harassment and retaliation against (the 15-year-old girl),” states the federal report, filed last September.
“Moreover … within two weeks of the initial complaint of sexual harassment, a second incident involving the same alleged harasser was reported by another female student, but the district did not consider this information in determining whether or not a hostile environment existed in the school and did not take steps to investigate the incident.”
The then-15-year-old girl last month filed a federal lawsuit against the Forest Hills school district, Superintendent Daniel Behm, former Forest Hills Central Principal Terry Urquhart, who is now the superintendent at Lansing’s Waverly Community Schools, and Anne Edsenga, then the assistant superintendent and Title IX coordinator.
Seriously...?
He would be crucified, persecuted and then prosecuted.
Hate crime, misogyny, racism, hate speech, unlawful exercise of white privilege, terroristic threats, etc, etc...the litany continues.
What difference does it make?
“Parents and patriots in the Forest Hills Public Schools district should rise up and demand that the superintendent retract his offensive letter and apologize for smearing the brave teenagers ...”
Wrong. Demand his removal and all traitors to the Republic.
They put rings in hogs noses. Nothing has changed.
The solution is to refute an obviously weak argument.
with all due respect to an otherwise excellent post, I ask where we an be able to confront the opposition, without the confrontation devolving into chaos...Facebook is an obvious example; most FB’ers are devout liberals, as we know, but that shouldn’t preclude productive debate. However, with Trump, they cannot contain themselves, and debate falls victim to frothing rage...I encountered this with several of my classmates, all of us 50 years removed from high school, who supposedly have a bond with me; the past ties that bind are no match for the current political scene, and on a civil day they curtly dismiss me...on a butthurt day, they foam at the mouth, sayng ‘spare us your inane diatribes’...
the opposition is in no mood to listen to reasoned debate; they have crystallized all their boogeymen into this election, and anything less than outright rancor will not suffice...
He should be fired if he doesn’t retract his offensive letter and apologizes for smearing the brave teenagers
*points to post #106*
They just can’t make up their mind, can they?
Carry on.
If miss Ravelo is an immigrant—and has taken an oath to support the Constitution—she should be booted out, for effectively repudiating what she has sworn to uphold. There is no way anyone can take this sort of a stand against the original American flag, that is in anyway consistent with the stated purpose of the Constitution.
Our “educational” institutions....
How about taking the ISIS flag and waving it up your €%*+£<~?
Everything is racist to these morons
What’s next? Banning cotton?
Betsy Ross Flag Displayed. Women and minorities hardest hit.
Mr. Matthew Patulski your Man Card has been revoked.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.