Posted on 11/10/2001 5:39:55 AM PST by shuckmaster
Lakeside High School officials are asking students not to wear clothing bearing the Confederate flag, at least for now.
While the Columbia County school system does not prohibit students from wearing the Confederate standard, recent racial tensions at Lakeside have prompted school officials to temporarily ban it on campus.
"On Tuesday we had five students involved in what we call actions preceding a fight; they were yelling at each other and squaring off," Lakeside Principal Victor Lee said. "Three of them were black, and two were white. The black kids came out with the fact that they felt like we were a racist school, with the kids wearing the Confederate flag, and they made an issue out of it."
The five students were suspended, Mr. Lee said. Nine other white students were identified throughout the day trying to promote the fight off-campus.
"As we got involved with those nine, I noticed that some of them were wearing the Confederate flag, and I asked them to work with me as we got through this issue and not wear the Confederate flag for a while," he said.
The students who were wearing the Confederate flag were asked to change their attire, said schools Superintendent Tommy Price.
"It is my understanding that they had other T-shirts to take their place and that they didn't have a problem with it," he said.
Students are generally not prohibited from wearing the flag at school.
"As long as there's no real problem caused by it, we don't have a problem with students wearing the Confederate emblem," Mr. Price said. "But given the disruption it's causing in the school, we felt like we needed to take this stance at this time."
Those who illegally seceded from the Union were thugs and criminals, and got what they deserved.
The North wasn't after the South to free its slaves, it was after preserving the Union against outlaws who were dead in the wrong. The SOUTH seceded because slavery was threatened.
And before you go off on that blather about how most Southerners didn't have slaves (which in itself is untrue, since most of the time we think of the plantation owners as the slavers, when just about every family above the level of hardscrabble existence had at least one or two. It was what you did, just as in Latin America in our own day most middle-class families have servants) READ THIS detailed explanation written by a Southern newspaperman about why the "poor folks" of the South fought also to protect the institution of African slavery.
Blathering? Before I go blathering? Why don't you stuff it, Illbay? You don't have the manners God gave a rabbit.
But many of those slaves loved their masters, and chose to stay with their masters after emanciaption. Some chose to move North, and quickly learned that things weren't really that bad down South. Life was extremely bad for blacks during Reconstruction - no education, now responsible for providing for their own families - I'd be willing to bet that at least one former slave wished for the good ol' days.
Sure, unless you were rich, it was hard work then, and is today - black or white.
BTW - thank you for serving your country.
FYI, I was pretty distraught, too, when my own researches began to uncover the truth.
But it always sets you free.
Only problem is, only 10-20% of all webpages are listed in search engines. That means 80-90% can't be found by Yahoo! or Google..... goin' to the library is so much work....
As usual, you did not get my statement exactly right, but Dr. Edgar will set you straight.
At the time of secession, 94% of South Carolina slave owners were small time farmers.
As you can see in the opinions of these posters, many believed that only the wealthy owned slaves, and that reflects the beliefs of people where slavery was not prevalent. Where it was, as in SC, it was known that slaves were owned by many small farmers.
In the SC of 1860, there were only 14 "massive" slave plantations, so it was not only the wealthy in that state.
However, as you know, the larger mass production cotton farms in Louisiana and Mississippi did reflect the stereotype of the Southern Plantation.
The point is that the stereotype did not fit the reality of 1860 in most of the South.
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