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.
” One could argue these boys are ignorant of the symbols they embrace and display—so they are just kids. “
The colonial flag is “evil”?
Hyphenated name is the give away....
Sarcasm.....
Jackhat!!
:: Suppose a straight white guy said “I want to make black girls cry” ::
Compare to the possible statement of
“I want to make ^black-girls^ bleed a lot”?
These superintendents are either —
A. Totally in agreement with Urena-Ravelo
B. Scared to death of Urena-Ravelo
C. Both
I'll just get one of those industrial grade magnets on a stick and hold it near its face till I hear click then lead it around till it's worn out...: )
“radical politics”
code for Communism?
She’s self absorbed and wasting her life.
I wonder if these people understand the kind of fire they’re playing with and how close we are to the black flag going up and the throat slitting to start.
I’m going to be laughing all morning - LOL
http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/briana.jpg
That nose ring and the stretched ear lobes make quite a statement.
First, they came for the Confederate flag...only a few stood up. Then, they came for the Gadston flag (don’t tread on me), only a few stood up...now, they’re here to take the American flag.
What say you?
I could sure use that to sit in the middle of my corn field.
Virtue signaling at its best.
When is Hillary Clinton going to FINALLY disavow Briana Urena-Ravelo?
+1.
This is an election cycle ploy.
More visible the American flag, the more conservative the voter will vote.
Ban the flag to suppress the pro-American vote.
Remember the left HATED seeing American flags after 9/11
Remember the left admonished anyone flying an American flag for the Orlando shooting.
Yet another “educator” who is a complete fascist idiot. Sheesh! What is with these degenerates?
Just more projection from that losing side.
They hate, so everyone must be haters, too.
They make everything represent their hatred, so others must be doing that, also.
They hate others not like themselves, they hate their missing daddies, they hate that Zero has given them zero, and in the end, I think they hate themselves for their own dishonesty.
Another Crapper stunt.
If the woman who sewed the fort flag were named Bets’Quisha La’Rossraniqua these kooks would still find something to complain about.
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