Seems a reasonable enough request. But a trip to Panama City, Florida or Biloxi, MS over Spring break would offer you better opportunities for hands-on research.
Posted on 12/19/2004 11:15:53 PM PST by DixieOklahoma
originally from spofga.org but can be found on georgiaheritagecoalition.org also.
Student files suit against school board
The Southern Legal Resource Center
News Release For additional information contact the SLRC at 828.669.5189/slrc@slrc-csa.org
For immediate release Friday, December 17, 2004 Student files suit against school board In Confederate prom dress case
LEXINGTON, KY – A young woman who was turned away from her high school prom because she was wearing a Confederate flag patterned evening gown will hold a press conference Monday after she files suit against the school board and officials who kept her out. Jacqueline Duty, a 2004 graduate of Russellville High School, is asking actual and punitive damages against the Russell Independent Board of Education, Superintendent Ronnie H. Back and Russell High Principal John Howard. The suit will be filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
Following Monday’s filing, a press conference will be held at 1 p.m. on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse, 101 Barr Street. Ms. Duty will make a brief statement, as will her attorney, Earl Ray Neal, and officials of the Southern Legal Resource Center of Black Mountain, North Carolina, whose Chief Trial Counsel will act as co-counsel.
Former SLRC client Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference. Neal and Lyons/SLRC represented Castorina in the 5 ½ year court struggle
“Ms. Duty was intimidated and humiliated on what should have been one of the happiest nights of her young life by some very overzealous and wrong-headed people,” said SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie. “She is entitled to vindication and we will work to see that she gets it.”
Earl Ray Neal is an attorney and adjunct Law Professor in Richmond, KY
The Southern Legal Resource Center is a nonprofit law firm that advocates on behalf of persons whose civil and constitutional rights have been violated in connection with expression of their Confederate heritage.
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT: Roger McCredie (828) 669-5189 exec@slrc-csa.org rebscape@charter.net
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ahem Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference
That school district is in some deep do-do, and rightfully so.
Seems a reasonable enough request. But a trip to Panama City, Florida or Biloxi, MS over Spring break would offer you better opportunities for hands-on research.
Er, that doesn't seem to have been the position of the Union Federal government when several counties of Virginia chose to seceed from their parent state, and side with the unionists as the new state of West Virginia....
United States Constitution Article IV, Section 3
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Since the existance of the secessionist state of West Virginia has been found to have been constitutionally permissable, the parent state of Virginia must not have been a State of the Union at the time....
Your words would certainly get your ass kicked down South. My advice is that you ALWAYS stay in California and protect your fellow fruits and nuts.
regarding your blathering......
"Well, then it must be true."
"There's a safe bet. You will never understand."
let me clarify the acronym for you so you aren't so likely to sarcastically "diss" others.
i=in
m=my
h=humble
o=opinion
get it? my opinion..... look up the words if you don't.
frankly, i'm always tempted to just crush these nazi white power b..tard's heads who that look at my asian/caucasian son askew at the harley events we attend.
so perhaps you'll never understand.
how about we just leave it at that?
the confedrates fought against a massive murdering horde known as the Union Army. The southern states fought because they were invaded, If my wife and children were raped and murdered by a massive murdering force which endorced a 'scorched earth' policy in regard to civilians I would fight back too. you coward.
as well as Georgia. 
pretty pathetic of you bud, you know nothing about me. nothing.
so why don't you drop the punk ass, tough guy (never really have to back it up) talk.
my work takes me to fla., la., ala. etc and no one has tried yet "to kick my ass". but who knows.... maybe someday they will try.
screw you and your advice....i go where i want and say what i want.
next time add something to the discourse rather than trash
talk. otherwise bioya.
i may not have the same historical perspective since i live out west. so i withdraw some of the "bite" to what i said.
however, out here in the west this flag does mean something different, as the people i observe wearing it DO NOT appear to be well versed in history.
Well I suggest you stay out in California then. BTW, three of the five vehicles you just named aren't worth driving. And yes I can afford them, I just choose not to waste my money on something that's going to be in the shop more than on the road. But keep stereotyping. You're doing a 'fine' job of representing the northern opinion
thanks for your opinion on cars but i'm not in the market for another year or so.
if i had the pic of the bunny with a pancake on his head i'd post it for you though, since i don't know what stereotyping you are talking about.
if you rotate your map -90 degrees you will see that california is west, not north.
Where my people came from, East Tennessee, the people were against secession. The whole state voted it down in January, 1861. But the state legislature and governor disregarded the will of the people and cut ties to the Union and invited the Confederate army into the state. Maybe I don't know about other states, but in Tennessee secession was a creation of the moneyed slave interests of Middle and West Tennessee. They later held an election to ratify their irregular action, but an election with an army in the midst is open to question. Even with Tennessee being occupied by alien forces, East Tennessee still voted to remain loyal to the Union. Abraham Lincoln had no greater friends that the loyal Union people of East Tennessee and the people of East Tennessee had no greater friend and champion than Abraham Lincoln who always sought to liberate East Tennessee from its oppressors.
awesome gown!!
The way I see it, anyone who wears this on anything is a soldier. Certainly this young lady was.
Do you propose relegating it to a back room in a museum as an historical symbol? I ask this seriously because I am familiar with your posts and know where your heart is. Same place as mine.
Of course, in this particular case, I would imagine that the majority of Confederate soldiers would not be displeased to see the young lady in it.
"Patriotic? She is wearing the colors of an enemy force that was determined to rip apart our nation. And don't give me that tired old "states rights" crap. The Confederate States sought an ending to the unity that eventually saved the world thru 2 world wars. Please......................"
From your studies of the laws and history of this nation, do the individual states have the right to secede?
I'm aware of that, and also that most of the people in the mountain counties up and down the Appalachian chain, all the way down into the Alabama Hills, were Union, or tended toward Union sympathies. The folks in western North Carolina tried to secede from the state and institute a "Republic of Mayland". The folks in the mountain counties of Virginia had better luck -- they got Abe Lincoln's connivance at the unconstitutional sundering of a State of the Union (under Abe's theory, anyway, Virginia was still in the Union and protected from arbitrary division by Article IV of the Constitution).
The whole state voted it down in January, 1861.
As did, initially, the legislatures of Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina, and the secession convention of Virginia.
But the state legislature and governor disregarded the will of the people and cut ties to the Union and invited the Confederate army into the state.
That isn't what happened. The legislature voted in favor of secession, but their vote was nothing but a beauty contest, because they were not a convention of the people as the secession conventions were in other States. What happened is that the people of Tennessee voted on June 8, 1861, to secede from the Union, by more than 2:1. The vote was 104,913 to 47,238. That's more than 152,000 votes cast.
.....in Tennessee secession was a creation of the moneyed slave interests of Middle and West Tennessee.
No, it wasn't. It was the creation of 104,913 voters who had heard enough.
They later held an election to ratify their irregular action, but an election with an army in the midst is open to question.
Guess you must have a pretty low opinion of the 1864 Northern election that returned "The Rail-Splitter" for a second term, then.
Even with Tennessee being occupied by alien forces, East Tennessee still voted to remain loyal to the Union.
Good for them. They lost the election, however, and the State of Tennessee went with the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln had no greater friends that the loyal Union people of East Tennessee and the people of East Tennessee had no greater friend and champion than Abraham Lincoln who always sought to liberate East Tennessee from its oppressors.
Guess you feel that breaking faith with their fellow citizens in western Tennessee was small potatoes, then. Not like anyone had a claim of fidelity on anyone else, or anything.
And Abraham Lincoln was a very dubious emancipator for anyone in the South who wasn't a member of the business class or a member of the Republican Party. He warred down 13 States of the Union (according to his theory) under a spurious theory that purported to give him authority to overmaster the People by armed violence and dictate to them.
If you still think you were on the winning side of the Civil War, just sit down with your community leaders and put together a new representation plan for aldermen or city council members in your community without going on bended knee to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice first. See what happens. See if you can hold an election. See if you are free.
Smell the coffee, man.
So you would object to the young woman's choice of pattern on grounds of good taste, whereas the other people arrived at the same conclusion, but from premises of political correctness instead, that require what the Romans called damnatio memoriae for all Confederalia, and all persons tainted (in their view) by association, except where publicly repudiated, with the Confederate past.
My own personal opinion is that this particular bit of PC is ill-disguised regional chauvinism emanating from the notoriously metrosexual and Leftist editorial dens of The New York Times, and reverse racism being whipped up as an election-season bloody shirt by professional race-issue politicians.
But your bottom line is, she should have gone home, I take it.
This story got on the local TV news in Houston today, btw.
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