Eddie!! Why you treat me like animaaaaaal! I want half!
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.
Eddie!! Why you treat me like animaaaaaal! I want half!
Please tell us how you are going to reason with such people? Or is this another excuse to virtue signal to the Left while scolding right?
Why don't we test that theory out in the ring then. Your face looks like it would make the perfect punching bag as long as I was completely protected from head to toe from your HIV / AIDs infested blood
Briana L. Urena-Ravelo
September 9 at 8:47pm
Racism is not static, racism is not encased in amber. It is a living, dreadful monstrous thing, one that grows and changes. This is because racism is comprised of the people who perpetuate and create it, it is human just like they are.
Trump’s flag was waved alongside the flag of the 13 colonies by the Forest Hills Central High School students section at a game they had against Ottawa Hills at Houseman Field this evening, at a field filled with kids of color from an GRPS school, with FHCHS faculty present and doing nothing. They waved these flags because they’re Conservatives, patriots, or they’re being “trolls”, but because white supremacy is clever and learns how to adapt to the times. Because white supremacy is people, even if they don’t know or think they are, or aren’t willing to publicly admit it.
White supremacy also still has a PR campaign to run. But frankly, you can’t bring a Confederate or Nazi flag to spook a bunch of Black and Brown kids and their families at a game without having everyone come down on you. But the 13 star flag, now THAT sends a similar message, but in much more subtle way, just like Dylann Roof and his pictures with the Rhodesian flag. You can say you’re just a patriot and can express yourself however you want in a free country! Win and win!
In both instances, white supremacy is masked by innocent call for a nation or peoples to go back to a time of former greatness and glory, of the innocent and fledging formative years of European colonies in “new lands”.
But let’s talk about what was happening during both the 13 colonies’ flag’s time and the Rhodesian flag’s times, shall we? Genocide. Europeans *legally owned* African slaves and they were violently, forcibly stealing the land of Indigenous peoples, whether Asian, African or the ancestors of current First Nation/Indigenous North and South Americans. Those flags were designed to represent European colonies committing those violences, establishing a racial hierarchy with them at the top. Hearkening to these old time values and tradition, how can that at all be subtle?
And then we have Trump’s banner. It waved alongside the flag of the 13 colonies. You think about that history and all that Trump and his supporters believe and say and what they have incited and it all clicks. It shows you very vividly what it is people think of when they say “Make America Great Again”.
I wonder how many more times things like this are gonna happen before ya’ll get a clue and start to take this VERY seriously, as seriously as people of color already have. I wonder when they will understand and care about how dangerous, damaging and hurtful this is.
Before you try say I’m just paranoid, a sissy, a do-nothing Black liberal looking to be offended or whatever other dismissive, paternalistic sexist racist shit you’re going to use to dismiss me so you can sleep better at night, realize I have the education, sense and experience of 26 years of living in West Michigan as a Dominican girl and centuries of abolition and civil rights advocacy in my ancestry and on my side to gift my perception and assessment of this country’s racism as correct. I see this for what it is out of pure instinct. And it disgusts me. That it doesn’t alarm or disgust you is what’s wrong.
Even if these flags were just about the visuals and not a call to action or the intentional allegiance to a toxic ideology, it serves to intimidate, and that is yet an issue. The psychological well-being and health of Black and Brown families and children in your community should come first to any poor excuses about “political beliefs” or what *anyone* may say the flags/Trump/Make America Great Again *really* means. We know what it means. And it is far from wholesome, just, decent, good or humane.
And before any Good White Liberals who Dr. MLK Jr. already called out some decades ago decide to take up space, or share this, pat themselves on the back and call it done, realize you have responsibility in this too. These are your cousins, your fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, etc. I am sick of you playing innocent. You frankly aren’t doing enough to challenge this garbage and our kids pay the consequences. Stop soft-pedaling and making endless excused for this. Stop calling shows of blatant aggression and intimidation “white privilege”. Stop telling yourself giving credence, space and voice to racially inciting and bigoted language is “balanced” and “fair”. Take an active, aggressive stand that goes beyond self-righteously clucking at “Trump Supporters” or else you’re part of the problem. Anything other than a loud “Not in my town” is complicit.
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That's the authors reference to her BLM engagement stated in the previous sentence - he's reflecting it back at her.
Her subconscious desire to be lead around by a dominant male is evident from the nose ring.
Wow. Just. Wow. The Betsy Ross flag symbolizes hate? Against whom? The Brits? What a frickin’ maroon.
Liberals are too stupid to realize that all their rings are attack points that can be used to disfigure and maim them. Probably because they always run from real fights.
SO, America’s very existence is racist.
From what? Laughing too hard? Come on Briana, bring it. This straight white boy could use a good laugh.
She probably only wears synthetic fibers since cotton is racist.
:: It’s a Culture War. They need to lose They need to be ground into the dust. No half measures. It’s Us or Them ::
Lifted to the top.
I thought it was the Confederate flag that was hateful? Time to slap these people.
“A poverty of Perspective,,!”
Quantify That,please.
And cry they would, with profound relief, upon realizing that this militant poofter/vacuum, with delusions of some grandeur within her own head, has removed herself from the pool of contention for their affections.
I know I would.
Well, it really appears to not be a poor history lesson, but a fraud perpetrated by her grandson. While it should be corrected in the books to properly reflect the truth, the simple fact is, when you mention the Betsy Ross Flag, we all know what you mean.
By the way, the five-pointed star is very simple to make with one cut (several folds). Did it with my kids for both home school and for my daughter's American Heritage Girls. Well, okay, my wife did, then she showed me. I'm rather clumsy and lack the creative gene to be able to do it right. Both the try I made, and the one I helped my daughter fold, had one star with a bit of the tip missing...
What is this Urea-Rectumalo and why does it matter?
:: To wave a historical version of our flag, that to some symbolizes exclusion and hate ::
OK, sweetie.
Please identify who those ARE that comprise that nebulous word “some”.
Might they be refugee immigrants or illegal immigrants that NEVER intend to assimilate to the ^liberty^ offered TO THEM by the United States of America?
It’s kinda like picking off flies, folks.
Shocking,
Exactly. No one intended to do so. Because to normal people, a historical version of our flag is just that, a historical version of our flag.
It is only the perennially offended people with real psychological issues and/or just looking for an excuse to claim victim status who see anything wrong here.
Seriously lib lurkers out there. If you feel there is anything wrong with displaying the Ross flag do two things for me. First, spend some quality time on introspection considering just why you feel offended, why you think it is wrong. Second, if you do not come to the conclusion you have been full of excrement, then please seek professional psychological help. We may disagree politically, but I do care about y'all as human beings. For your health and well being, please get some professional help.
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