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School Board Member Apologizes For Uproar After Comparing Flag To Toilet Paper
CBS Chicago ^ | 10/3/2017 | Mike Krauser

Posted on 10/03/2017 11:57:21 AM PDT by simpson96

CHICAGO (CBS) — An Elgin school district board member has apologized to fellow board members, after creating a firestorm of criticism when she wrote on Facebook that the American flag “means nothing more than toilet paper to me.”

Last month, Elgin Area School District U-46 board member Traci O’Neal Ellis wrote on Facebook wrote a Facebook post supporting NFL players who chose to kneel during the national anthem.

In her post, Ellis wrote the flag “means nothing more than toilet paper to me.” At the district’s board meeting Monday night, she stood by her original comments, but apologized for the “distraction” her words caused.

“I make no apologies for my comment about the flag. I made them as a private citizen, and taxpayer in this country, on my personal Facebook page, about a matter of import in the current national discourse, and based upon my personal lived experiences,” she said. “However, I could have been much more circumspect in my criticism and more elegant in my language. Please accept my apology for this.”

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1 posted on 10/03/2017 11:57:21 AM PDT by simpson96
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2 posted on 10/03/2017 11:57:37 AM PDT by simpson96
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She needs to be fired, then exiled to the racism-free utopia of her choice. If she can’t choose, one will be chosen for her, like, say, Sudan or Chad.


3 posted on 10/03/2017 11:59:55 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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I’m so sick of this same sick scenario being played out with these loonie libs:

1. Make outrageous, vile comment

2. Get caught

3. Make lame-ass apology to hold disinterested media at bay

4. Learn nothing, go on with life

Lather, rinse, repeat


4 posted on 10/03/2017 12:00:20 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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And people wonder why the public school system is hopelessly ruined.


5 posted on 10/03/2017 12:01:07 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: simpson96

Apology not accepted.

You’re a public official who made a statement on a public forum.

Or as your ilk loves to say “free speech doesn’t mean free from consequences”


6 posted on 10/03/2017 12:01:14 PM PDT by Skywise
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And she was fired when?????


7 posted on 10/03/2017 12:01:24 PM PDT by laweeks
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Why apologize to only the school board..because she will lose her job if she doesnt?


8 posted on 10/03/2017 12:01:28 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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Liberals and their self doxxing on Facebook. So stupid for such an “enlightened” group of people.

Also, love her “I Stand Against Racism” profile backdrop. More or less code for anti white and anti conservative.


9 posted on 10/03/2017 12:01:47 PM PDT by BluegrassCardinal
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Where do these creeps come from?


10 posted on 10/03/2017 12:02:20 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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The title says it all - she apologized for the uproar, not for her comments.

She said flat out, “I make no apologies for my comments about the flag.”

WOW.

Thanks a lot, Obama.


11 posted on 10/03/2017 12:02:51 PM PDT by simpson96
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12 posted on 10/03/2017 12:03:16 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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It’s like she apologized for
the smell but not the farting.


13 posted on 10/03/2017 12:04:46 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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Just another stupid kneegoer shaping the lives of students in that shithole School district in Elgin Il.


14 posted on 10/03/2017 12:06:57 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: BluegrassCardinal

Just once I would like one of these fools to tell me exactly what they mean by racism. It is a dog whistle type of comment, sounds wonderful, sort of like Mom, Apple Pie, and I used to say the American Flag.

Also like the phrase “transparent” especially when used by someone who “Stands Against Racism”. Ask them exactly what they mean by transparent and you get either a deer in the headlights look or have them start sputtering and mouthing bile at you.

The picture of these pious fool being hugged by the attendees like she is the injured party, reminds me of all sorts of Alice in Wonderland comments. Red is Black and Black is Red.


15 posted on 10/03/2017 12:07:13 PM PDT by ConchKarl (From a member of the Herd, 173rd)
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Fire her ignorant *ss.
If she us a teacher, Goer is a scientist.
Ignorant s**t.


16 posted on 10/03/2017 12:09:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SMARTY
Where do these creeps come from?

"Educated" and indoctrinated, surely, in the good ol' USA.

Today's snowflake students are tomorrow's elementary school teachers - and if that doesn't convince you to homeschool, I don't know what will!

17 posted on 10/03/2017 12:09:22 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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“Apology not accepted.“

She didn’t.


18 posted on 10/03/2017 12:09:25 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Da Coyote

Oop, an iPad mistake.
Gore, not Goer.


19 posted on 10/03/2017 12:10:12 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: simpson96

So it’s - “Sorry, not sorry”.

I remember when people would get fired for saying such things (much less post them for the world to see). Then they’d still likely get their a$$ kicked by some POed American.


20 posted on 10/03/2017 12:11:04 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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