Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $77,694
95%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 95%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: goodforthegoose

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Alabama HS students want classroom LGBT flag removed, compare it to Confederate flag

    08/27/2017 2:51:41 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 76 replies
    .headlineoftheday.com ^ | Aug 27, 2017 | T.A. Reid
    Students and parents at a high school in Alabama are calling for the removal of a classroom LGBT “rainbow pride” flag, saying it is comparable to the Confederate flag. More than 2,400 people thus far have signed a Change.org petition calling for the flag to be taken down at Auburn High School. “The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come...
  • Black man charged with hate crime in threats to TV news crew

    05/21/2005 9:23:58 AM PDT · by Elcie30 · 80 replies · 1,856+ views
    The New Tribune ^ | 5/21/05 | Sean Robinson
    Darnell Colquitt thought the TV reporters didn’t belong in the Tillicum ’hood and told them so. People tote heat around here, he warned. He started to pedal away on a bicycle, then stopped, turned, and told the reporters what would happen if they were still there when he came back. “You’re dead where you stand,” he said. That, and a hail of racial slurs, earned him a trip to jail Thursday, along with a rare charge from Pierce County prosecutors: a black-on-white hate crime.