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."
Once again, the Confederate flag is banned for defending itself. The war on Southern Heritage continues.
Racism goes all ways, these days.
What IS "Southern heritage"?
Bovine manure...
The problem is the reaction and inability to control emotions by some members of the student body.
"Diversity" apparently means bowing to the wishes and demands of the minority population.
So now, disgreements between students are cause to be suspended from school?
Arghhhhh! The never ending cycle of modifying social behavior to fit the socialist, "we are one" agenda continues.
What is Southern Heritage? For me, Southern Heritage is pride in and respect for your family. It is grits or nothing for breakfast. It is knowing that Barbeque is a noun. It's sitting in a tree freezing your butt off waiting for supper to walk by. Its country music and NASCAR. For me the Confederate flag has always been around. From those corny license plates that had the fat old soldier saying "Ferget hell!" to the child t-shirts that read "I'm a little rebel", it wasn't racial, it was a statement that said, "I'm country, I'm from the South, and I'm proud." I remember singing "Dixie" in elementary school music class. We didn't fly the Confederate flag every day back then. We saved it for special occasions like holidays, high school football games and NASCAR races. We can't sing Dixie in school any more, and the flag has been banned from high school games. NASCAR will probably start frowning on it too. When you see those flags flying at NASCAR races, they're not being flown by bigots, but by people who are proud to be from the south. Some people think of the Confederate flag as being a symbol of racism, but to me, it has never stood for slavery. When I was a child decades ago, I never associated the flag with slavery. I remember asking my mother what the rebel flag meant. She told me, It means we're not going to let anyone push us around. It was always a symbol of being a rebel, proud, a symbol of the south.
It goes something like this, speech fascist.
It is the belief that the culture and traditions of the Southern region of the United States are admirable, redeeming, and edifying. They, in many ways, form the core of conservative thought: civility, individualism, traditional morality, and pride in one's homeland.
We are not, nor ever have we been consumed with and defined by "racism", if that term is taken to mean irrational hatred of our black neighbors. Slavery, though hardly a sin exclusive to us, is an institution of which we are deeply regretful and ashamed; it will forever be a blot on our past, as well as a convenient bludgeon for condescending cretins like yourself. We do not, however, put on idealist blinders and pretend that we are all the same; we are not, never have been, and are reminded of it every day.
But we will not roll up into a fetal position, be perpetually ashamed of ourselves to gain your good graces and acceptance, and be told to trash can the memory of a venerable, if imperfect, American institution like the Confederacy.
Does that enlighten you a bit?
You hear this tortured construction a lot these days, even from people (like media functionaries) who are supposed to be able to speak English...
"...came out with the fact that they felt like..."
How many times have you heard precisely these words serving as a prelude to some sort of moronic, self-serving gibberish being presented as an undisputed truth? How many times have you heard these words slurred by some jabbering village idiot product of genetic roulette with the IQ of a toaster oven on the evening propaganda broadcast?
If you haven't, file the phrase away and listen for it.
You won't have to wait long to encounter it, the first time.
And then you'll notice it every time.
I apologize in advance for that.
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