Posted on 09/15/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Michigan school district called the historic “Betsy Ross” flag a symbol of hate and profusely apologized after students displayed the flag at a recent high school football game.
“To wave a historical version of our flag, that to some symbolizes exclusion and hate, injects hostility and confusion to an event where no one intended to do so,” wrote Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm in a letter to parents.
The controversy surrounding the 13-star flag erupted on Sept. 9th during a football game between predominantly white Forest Hills Central High School and predominantly black Ottawa Hills High School, MLive reports.
Forest Hills students not only waved a “Betsy Ross” flag, but they also displayed a Donald Trump banner (behavior guaranteed to get you labeled deplorable).
At least one parent was “shocked” to hear students chanting, “USA” and wearing red, white and blue.
Oh, the horror.
“You can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation,” said Briana Urena-Ravelo, co-founder of the Grand Rapids Black Lives Matter group.
Ms. Urena-Ravelo, who represents a group that specializes in overt intentional racism and intimidation, told television station WOOD that the students intended to be racist.
“For these white kids from a white school to bring out a flag of the colonies with the ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump flag to a game with black students on the field, it’s all very obvious,” she told the television station.
Parent Matthew Patulski wrote a scathing Facebook diatribe – accusing students of “brandishing these symbols of nationalism and white supremacy.”
Supt. Behm fired off a wordy, two-page letter lecturing folks in the district about their “privilege” and apologizing to the inner city school.
“Whether our privileges are derived from the circumstances of our birth, our race, our geography, our work, or our wealth, our blind privileges can produce a poverty of perspective and understanding,” he wrote.
“Injecting partisan politics into a community football game and into a commemoration of the events of September 11th is inappropriate,” he wrote. ‘Parading our current United States flag in a manner that is inconsistent with proper etiquette is disrespectful to all who have served our nation.”
So let’s look at the facts:
1. The students wore red, white and blue because it was a “red, white and blue” theme night.
2. The students traditionally wear red, white and blue to commemorate Sept. 11th.
3. There are no local news reports of students using any sort of derogatory or racially offensive language.
4. The Betsy Ross flag is not racist.
5. A Trump “Make America Great Again” banner is not racist.
6. Supt. Daniel Behr is a pinhead
Parents and patriots in the Forest Hills Public Schools district should rise up and demand that the superintendent retract his offensive letter and apologize for smearing the brave teenagers who dared to show their American pride.
Oh, by the way – Mr. Patulski also took great offense because the students were chanting, “Go Green! Go White!”
“We were all quite taken aback by these loud chants,” he wrote.
That’s because the school colors are green and white, you self-righteous nincompoop.
Maybe a Sista, named Urethra!
Brotha named, Anus!
I think that the key to getting the Trump vote in the Black community up to 25%, is to flat out continue to pound away that Hillary has invited those who are harassing the Police for trying to maintain law & order in the inner city neighborhoods, into her political fold. There is a large element who would like to see more--not less--Police activity; whether or not they dare speak out in the present climate of hate that the Left has created.
Perhaps the school officials don’t know the difference between a “Betsy Ross” flag and a Confederate flag.
Enough. Fire this racist A/A jackass immediately. She has a major chip on her shoulder, and needs years of counseling to work through it. In the meantime, keep her FAR away from any children.
This guy is so prescient......he oughta have his own reality TV call-in show......"Danny Reads Your Thoughts."
People call in and say things like, "I had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch."
Danny responds: "You are a proto-racist, a subliminal Ku Klus Klanner, a hater w/ a savage desire to kill all those who eat bologna sandwiches."
I have moved into your camp. I am no longer going to turn the other cheek. Even with relatives, I’m going to make a stand. I’m tired of this s**t. I just want to live my life and be left alone. It seems that this is increasingly not possible. Man the barricades!
You captured liberal projection... good one Liz.
I say the Gadsden has been flown here since Jan 20, 2009. I have no cultural tie to the CBF (it was the flag of an enemy force to a couple of ancestors, but 150+ years later it’s a historical American flag of no personal meaning), so I neither fly it nor decry it.
Old Glory waits patiently on the Flag Shelf, properly folded into a triangle, awaiting the day when the nation is worthy of her again.
How d’ye like them apples :)
Every time in history when one group has had enough with another group, the group that’s finally had enough always prevails. Even if that group was in the wrong.
This is inspiring for the mentally disabled. Only in America can lackwits and lobotomy victims rise to reign over school districts.
“...Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm ...”
Wonder how this douchebag would feel if several hundred of us showed with a Nyeberg III% Battle Flag...
And a couple Jolly Rogers thrown in for good measure.
Look, here’s a new one. Not up there with low literacy and tranny bathroom rights, but still, another reason...
Socks symbolize hate.
Patio furniture symbolizes hate.
Telephones symbolize hate.
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Our first tranny raised president (the bastard in the White House, both are documented FACTS) said that Islamic attacks have been provoked by insulting comic drawings/contests, when does the homofascist rainbow flag get banned for provoking the Islamonazi shooting of the Orlando nightclub?
The Left hijacked the Orlando shooting and used it to segregate and play isolated victims (homosexuals, not Americans), and blamed Christian opposition to same sex marriages and transvestites in opposite sex locker rooms...
What is so discouraging is that few conservatives even see the problem, fewer do but believe the government schools can be fixed ( They can't) , and very very very few conservatives understand the urgency and seriousness of the threat to our freedom.
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