Posted on 10/18/2001 4:37:00 AM PDT by shuckmaster
MOULTON, Ala. (AP) -- Four more students were suspended Wednesday from two Lawrence County schools for defying dress codes by wearing Confederate flags on their clothing.
The suspensions came as 15 other students at Lawrence County High School in northwest Alabama finished three-day suspensions imposed Monday when they showed up with Confederate flag clothing in defiance of a rule instituted by Principal Ricky Nichols on Friday.
One student at Lawrence County High School was given a three-day suspension for defying the rule, Nichols said. At Speake School, a third-grader, fifth-grader and eighth-grader were sent home for one-day suspensions Wednesday for wearing T-shirts with rebel flags, Principal Earl Leonard said.
Leonard said the students got opportunities to change into other T-shirts or turn theirs inside out. He said their parents chose to take the children home.
Nichols, in his first year at Lawrence County High School, said that since the fall term began he has been reassuring minority students and parents that there was nothing to fear from children wearing clothes with depictions of Confederate flags.
But Nichols instituted the new rule after racial slurs were used in two incidents last week.
Suspended Lawrence County High School students and parents said the shirts are a display of Southern heritage and had nothing to do with race.
I can't seem to find that in my copy of the U. S. Constitution. As a matter of fact, this Country's founders even made reference to the population overthrowing an oppressive government. Under the Articles of Confederation AND the U. S. Constitution is WAS understood that the individual states had made a VOLUNTARY pact from which they could withdraw if it was in their best interest. Go back and read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers for further explanations regarding the LIMITED powers of the FEDERAL government and then realize that the powers NOT enumerated were left to the individual STATES.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I'll bet you have a chihuahua!
''The veteran Confederate soldier was a typical gentleman. He was gentle as a lamb, brave as a lion and as ferocious as a tiger when aroused. He was as proud as Lucifer, as retiring as a woman and withal a hero on the field of battle. He knelt to no God but high heaven. He asked no friend but his sword.''—Col. John P. Hickman, CSA
I find this "cognitive dissonance" of your fascinating. First, you rail against those who defeated the slaveholders of the South in their attempt to rebel against the United States.
Then you quip that those who disparage that rebellion aren't "Americans."
You claim you're a "Confederate," loudly and often, and you even have the audacity to bring this up again during this time when--one would think--we could put aside such petty hobbies in favor of national unity.
I on the other hand claim to be an AMERICAN, and it is the flag of the United States--the flag against which your heroes rebelled, the flag they cast down--that I fly proudly.
That racist banner which you love is the antithesis of the America that I love.
Go somewhere else with your neo-Confederate cant, and understand you can't have it both ways. Either you love this country, or you love that country that never existed. Choose.
Oh, I don't. I simply prefer that people understand the history, instead of the romantic myth that arose to take its place.
I doubt you'll find too many Germans today who will tell you, even candidly, that they resent being "stripped of their history" with respect for the Third Reich. So that argument is hollow.
The Confederacy is dead. Long live the United States of America.
Funny. I would be willing to wager good money that we could find examples of you RAILING against "multiculturalism" elsewhere. But you'll don that mantle when it suits you.
Go back and read the earlier thread, the links to which I provided. I put LOTS of stuff in there about the "noble, multicultural' South of the slaveholders.
You may have your romantic myth of a place that never was, but pardon the rest of us while we deal with reality.
You've never had me fooled for a minute, even when you tried to pretend to be a conservative. You are nothing, have done nothing and you have nothing. Nobody listens to penniless losers like you. Begone.
The only thing that I'll admit is that when you lose an argument you lapse into frantic gibberish.
That's likely true, but it isn't true of those who style themselves "neo-Confederates." Their patent hatred of this country is legendary.
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