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Confederate flag controversy brews at Bloomington school (Minnesota)
KAAL-TV ^ | June 4, 2008 | Justin Piehowski

Posted on 06/04/2008 1:32:11 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

Three seniors at Bloomington Kennedy High School will not be allowed to walk in their graduation ceremony after driving to school with confederate flags flying from their trucks.

Seventy-five other students showed up at the school Wednesday morning to protest the action taken by the school against Justin Thompson, Joey Snyder and another student.

"I figured, you know, we’re seniors, it’s the last day of school…we didn’t mean any offense by it," Thompson said.

Added Snyder: "We didn’t look at it as racist or anything."

But school officials feel that flying a confederate flag violates the school’s student conduct policy. The students have been suspended from all school-sponsored activities.

"We are responsible for the 2,000-plus students that attend this school," said Rick Kaufman, of Bloomington Public Schools. "The very nature of what they did had the potential to create a very serious situation."

Students disagreed.

"They weren’t trying to hurt anybody, they just had it on their cars. It’s just freedom of speech" said Landin Lind, one of 75 students who chanted ‘Let Them Walk’ at the school Wednesday morning.

"I feel it was a racist move, but I feel that they were just kidding around," added student James Granberry, who supports the students. "I didn’t really take offense to it."

School officials added that they’ve dealt with some racism issues at the school recently, which is why they are taking the incident so seriously.

All three students will still receive their diplomas.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: cbf; confederateflag; crossofsaintandrew; discipline; dixie; prank; publicschools; saintandrewscross; zerotolerance
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21 posted on 06/04/2008 2:05:45 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Non-Sequitur

You know how this works, they are flying the Confederate flag because their ancestors were democrats....


22 posted on 06/04/2008 2:12:59 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
i suspect the "publick screwl officials" reacted the way they did because they are:

1. FOOLS,

2. ant-southern BIGOTS &

3. PC-DUMMIES.

fwiw, there are LOTS of those PREJUDICED "useful idiots" in the north = i KNOW about that as i was stationed up there with the US Army.

free dixie,sw

23 posted on 06/04/2008 2:13:58 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: CindyDawg

Aside from the fact that is only a Confederate battle flag, not the official flag of the Confederate States of America, consider this. Slavery only existed for about four years under the stars and bars. It existed for eighty-five years under the stars and stripes. Why is there no outrage over the U.S. flag? And no, I’m not saying there should be, just pointing something out.


24 posted on 06/04/2008 2:20:10 PM PDT by beelzepug ("That a-hole Bill Maher stole my tagline!")
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To: Non-Sequitur
So what was it being used as a symbol for in this case?

Wasn't it used internationally as a symbol of resistance to tyranny in the years after the WBTS?

25 posted on 06/04/2008 2:22:32 PM PDT by groanup (Most of my cliche's aren't original.)
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To: beelzepug

The only reason slavery ever existed at all in the United States is because the South demanded it as part of their creating the Nation.

This nation’s history is filled with compromises and attempts to end slavery from it’s very founding, always opposed by democrats and particularly by those in the south.


26 posted on 06/04/2008 2:25:15 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: beelzepug

“Slavery only existed for about four years under the stars and bars.”

FYI stars and bars refers to the First National flag of the Confederacy, not the Confederate battle flag. :)


27 posted on 06/04/2008 2:41:52 PM PDT by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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To: swmobuffalo

“..stars and bars refers to the First National flag of the Confederacy...”

I knew that and in re-reading my post, I really didn’t make it very clear. That’s always the problem with typing non work-related items on company time. You spend too much time looking over your shoulder for the boss and don’t pay attention to what you are writing. My point was that there are too many people still willing to blame the South, and to perceive racism in everything. If Obama gets elected, expect that to get much worse.


28 posted on 06/04/2008 2:54:07 PM PDT by beelzepug ("That a-hole Bill Maher stole my tagline!")
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Oh for.....cryin’ out loud!!!! I had a large patch of the Confederate flag on my jeans when I was in high school. And I WORE them to school, along with my JD#7 shirt. No, I wasn’t in a state that was considered Confederate, but it represented a lot of things I liked - southern rock (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Tennessee whiskey (Jack Daniels) and men with pick up trucks, guns in the rack and a southern accent.


29 posted on 06/04/2008 2:55:32 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: groanup
Wasn't it used internationally as a symbol of resistance to tyranny in the years after the WBTS?

Possibly. Knowledge of history has never been that strong in this country. The confederate flag could have mistakenly been used as that.

30 posted on 06/04/2008 2:59:53 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: stainlessbanner

Thanks for the ping SB


31 posted on 06/04/2008 3:13:04 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Non-Sequitur
The confederate flag could have mistakenly been used as that

But if it was used as that then it wouldn't be a mistake, would it? I mean if soldiers fighting tyranny in foreign lands adopted the cross as a symbol then it isn't the knowlege of history that is in question.

Maybe so many liberals despise the St. Andrew's Cross because Andrew means "manly" in Greek.

32 posted on 06/04/2008 3:14:43 PM PDT by groanup (Most of my cliche's aren't original.)
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To: groanup
But if it was used as that then it wouldn't be a mistake, would it?

A good third of the confederate population would disagree with that.

33 posted on 06/04/2008 3:19:49 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: CindyDawg

“It’s only offensive to those that choose to be offended”!

Amen! You have hit the nail on the head!!


34 posted on 06/04/2008 3:27:07 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: beelzepug

“You spend too much time looking over your shoulder for the boss and don’t pay attention to what you are writing.” LOL :)

“My point was that there are too many people still willing to blame the South, and to perceive racism in everything. If Obama gets elected, expect that to get much worse.”

Ain’t that the truth!!


35 posted on 06/04/2008 3:32:30 PM PDT by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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To: Non-Sequitur
A good third of the confederate population would disagree with that

Not sure what you mean but, acknowledging your erudition regarding the war, I fail to see how that translates into knowledge of the opinions of the Confederate population.

36 posted on 06/04/2008 3:37:22 PM PDT by groanup (Most of my cliche's aren't original.)
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To: groanup
Maybe so many liberals despise the St. Andrew's Cross because Andrew means "manly" in Greek.

If the liberals had taken a decent history class on the WBTS instead of spending their day with anarchists, they would not be girly men.

37 posted on 06/04/2008 3:58:52 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: groanup
Not sure what you mean but...

I was referring to the one third of the population owned by the other two-thirds of the population. I doubt they felt they had much of a stake in that 'fighting against tyranny' stuff.

38 posted on 06/04/2008 4:16:41 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: usmcobra
what a DUMB post.

as usual, you post is based on NOTHING.

laughing AT you. (by the way, be sure and remind everyone that you claimed that you were a staff-member of the NOLA Confederate Museum, when you were nothing but a child. of course, you admitted that ONLY when you were exposed as a FRAUD.)

free dixie,sw

39 posted on 06/04/2008 7:02:14 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Non-Sequitur
perhaps there is ONE person here who is clue-LESS enough to believe the PROPAGANDA you spew, but then maybe NOT, as your reputation for DECEIT,NON-responsive "answers", diversions & HALF-truths is WELL-known to everyone on these WBTS threads.

laughing AT your feeble attempt to avoid the TRUTH.

free dixie,sw

40 posted on 06/04/2008 7:10:37 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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