[stainlessbanner]

Must Read from junior at Cornell.

[ladtx]

Wonder how the kids at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, Texas ever get educated, being reminded everyday when they enter the campus and are greeted by that name? Guess they're just not as enlightened as the Ithaca bunch.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The Confederate flag is not—and was never—a representation of the institution of slavery. The North, in an attempt to glorify its states’ fight to suppress the South’s effort to free themselves from the North’s exploitation,

HAHA

There goes the credibility of the author's effort.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if Mexican-Americans (legals) are offended by the Texas Flag?............

[Protagoras]

Abolish government schools and the problem disappears.

[Junior]

Because the United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of protecting the freedom of speech exercised in displaying the stars and bars...

Odds are, no one at this school would recognize the Stars 'n Bars. Hint: It ain't the notorious Battle Flag...

[OB1kNOb]

Old Times Here Are Apparently Forgotten

Not by all. I took this photo at the Decoration Day event that I attended this past Sunday.

[JimRed]

Paging City Of Evil...

[NativeNewYorker]

city of evil ping

[cowboyway]

informing their parents that the flag of the Confederacy had been banned. Ithaca High School students can no longer display the emblem on belt buckles, t-shirts, or anywhere else while on school property

I agree that Confederate symbols should be banned from public school property IF all symbols are banned; political, societal, educational, cultural, etc.

The Confederate flag is not—and was never—a representation of the institution of slavery

The Confederate flag at issue was/is a Battle Flag.

Slavery became the issue in 1863, two years after the start of the war, when disHonest Abe rapidly began losing support to re-colonize the South.

Or, in order to really be free of uncomfortable memories of our national history, maybe Ithaca High School will ban all black students from school property.

Actually, the white students should be banned since whites are the oppressors.

[Billthedrill]

I don't think it's old times that are the issue, however closely modern Southerners may cherish the memory. The attack on the Confederate battle flag is being done primarily by people who have no idea, and frankly do not care, what issues resulted in the Civil War - it isn't about history, it's about power in the present day, the power to choose which symbols are acceptable to display on the part of individuals who believe in social engineering through semiotics.

Debating whether slavery was the issue in a war over for fourteen decades is a distraction from what's really going on here. Was there a Northern tarriff in 1860? Who cares, you may not display that symbol. Were there slaves on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line? Who cares, you may not display that symbol. Shall we play silly terminology games in insisting on the phrase "War of Northern Aggression"? Fine, go ahead, we don't care - you may not use that symbol.

Get my point? This isn't about the Civil War. This is now, it's an ongoing drive, and it isn't Yankee versus Rebel, it's thought control versus freedom.

[glorgau]

I bet they'd let the kids wear swastikas if the swastikas were part of some "down with straight people" campaign.

[LeoWindhorse]

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[freepatriot32]

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[righthand man]

bump for later

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"Even more frightening than this restriction of freedom of speech in Ithaca High School is what has caused this common misunderstanding of the Confederate flag. In perpetuating their myth of the North as the force of good in the Civil War, the North has revised history in a way that should frighten all Americans."

One only needs to look at the insanity of the MSM, Murfa, Kerry, Gore, Dean, Hillary, abortion, porn., and all other atrocities society is allowing. Out of society's own proud, puffed-up denial, the walls are crumbling all around...

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

[Little Ray]

Like it or not, the school has a right to set a dress code.

Personally, I think that "free speech" is not relevant to school, either. Students are there to learn, not to make some sort of political point.

[x]

Children in Northern schools are never made aware that there were no more abolitionists in the North than in the South.

Uh, because it's just not true? Circulating abolitionist tracts or having abolitionist meetings was illegal in some slave states. Obviously there were more abolitionists in states where such practices were allowed.

[ModerateGOOPer]

Throughout most of my adult life, and again here when I joined FR, I argued against those who glorified the Confederacy and mourned it's demise even a century and a half later. Then I came to an important conclusion:

They hate the United States of America.

They believe that the United States of America was evil in 1861, and things have only gotten worse since then, rather than believing that the United States has emerged in those same years as the greatest champion of freedom the world has ever known.