Posted on 06/05/2012 1:35:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. —
When Trey Gainey drove his pickup truck to school Monday morning, he didn’t expect to be met in the parking lot by school officials telling him to remove a Confederate flag flying from his antenna.
The Richmond Senior High School junior said he flies the flag every weekend, and decided to leave the flag on his truck on his last day of classes before finals start.
Gainey has a belt buckle that says “Redneck” and a horn that plays “Dixie,” so there is no mistaking how the teen identifies himself.
“It’s just my Southern heritage, you know. I was born and raised down here and [it] wasn’t nothing racist, just me,” he said.
But when he drove into the school’s parking lot, school officials made him take it down.
“I’m like, ‘What have I done wrong?’ you know,” Gainey said.
So, the teen told the school officials he would not remove the flag.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...
If it was a gay pride flag he’d be allowed to keep it up.
There is no known IQ on earth lower than that of a public school administrator.
Oops, forgot about Obamadork.
I’m with the kid.
The SCOTUS has ruled that burning the US flag is free speec...how is this not equal?
Do they make the fags get rid of their rainbow flags, too?
He could wear a dress and that would be fine.
Or if he came to school dressed as a sex pervert:
I am with the kid....
"What was done that day was stupid, stupid on the part of all these individuals," Mr. Morrow's lawyer, Carlton Lewis, said in closing arguments. "I submit to this court that Freddie Morrow is guilty of criminally negligent homicide and no other offense."
Three other defendants, accused of boxing in Mr. Westerman's truck, face trial later.
I was imagining something a wee bit smaller than that...
The ONLY issue is can he legally operate the vehicle on the highways with the flag?
If yes then the school has no right and no jurisdication to determine the flag has to be removed or the car does.
Bet they would not have a Mexican remove his flag....
All he would have had to do is point out the “union made”
label on his flag, they would have let him keep it up.
Great, Mr. Gainey!! The flag is a symbol of STATE's Rights...it is NOT about SLAVERY!!
Fly the 1st National. They won’t know what it is.
Also it’s the height of irony that the black grievance mongers don’t ever take note that it’s DEMOCRATS who dug in against freeing slaves and then for Jim Crow provisions, almost every single God-damned time. (And I mean it, God damned those times.) The reason that the grievance mongers give for hating Republicans? Because in the early civil rights era, the party briefly flirted with racial separatists in the South — that’s it. Forget what happened with Abraham Lincoln. Forget why Jim Crow wasn’t able to become even worse than it was. The GOP’s name must be mud!
Yes, slavery was the worst vice of the South and it served as a fatal moral weakness. But the South had virtues too, and the Abraham Lincoln cure from the North did not come without its own (if lesser) problems of greater socialistic philosophy. Why can’t we have freedom AND proper respect to all humans? Why does it have to be either/or?
How about the red, black and green so-called “african-American flag”? Probably a whole parking lot of them would not be noticed.
Right or wrong, schools must be permitted to control behavior that is disruptive or can cause violence. This means girls cannot wear micro-mini skirts and exposed midriff t-shirts, boys cannot cross dress, and nobody can have ridiculous hair styles or obscene t-shirts. And yes, right or wrong, the Confederate battle flag is seen by most black people as racially provocative.
Importantly the SCOTUS has never seen fit to lay ground rules for this and other perpetual school lawsuits, settling these issues permanently, so each and every year, these and related subjects end up in federal court, wasting huge amounts of money.
And the SCOTUS is to blame for this. Out of the approximately 8,000 cases appealed to them every year, of which they can only address a few dozen, they have seen fit to hear such cases like the infamous, “Bong Hits for Jesus” case, TWICE. This nonsense needs to end.
Either create federal guidelines, or just declare that such situations are no longer in the federal jurisdiction, and must be decided at the state level.
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