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.
Ms. Urena-Ravelo has psychological problems.
there’s some sick puppies in MI..
Not a man card among that bunch.
> 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.
Briana is a community organizer, activist and writer based in Heritage Hills. She works as the Community Engagement Specialist at the Rapidian. She is also co-founder of the Grand Rapids chapter of Black Lives Matter and a freelance writer. - http://www.therapidian.org/users/briana-urena-ravelo
Holy cow. Truly unbelievable.
How in the world is the Betsy Ross flag “racist”?
And Donald Trump has plenty of supporters of all different races. In fact, they are called “Americans.”
BLM has truly become unhinged.
Some people just need to be slapped up.
And slapped up good.
I am no longer interested in polite, reasonable dialogue with these people. 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.
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Ahhhh Shut Up! We’re so sick of hearing the same BS come out of your attention seeking whore mouths. As predictable as Al Sharpton arriving at a #BLM with his donations table ready to go...
The Flag symbolizes Liberty and Strength.
And
Betsy Ross had nothing to do with the flag despite a poor history lesson to the contrary
“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 only question is do we need a small, medium, or large order of tar and feathers for Behm.
Being tarred and feathered needs to make a comeback.
Once we make our case, then and only then...we can start to call them names.
Liberalism = Mental Illness
“You can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation,” said Briana Urena-Ravelo, co-founder of the Grand Rapids Black Lives Matter group.”
Oh yes we can you moron. The Betsy Ross flag has nothing to do with racism unless they had a crystal ball and could foresee people like you.
BLM setting America back decades.
BLM are useful idiots for the Marxist takeover. It is part of a plan.
Sounds like “Superintendent Behm needs to go to work for Black Lives Matter where he will feel more comfortable and submissive. Hopefully, locals will push back against his grovelling before the Leftist PC mandate.
If shouts of “USA” and the Betsy Ross flag are “hate” to black Americans, then I guess the White Supremacists have been right all along.
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