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Home Front: Culture Wars
T-Shirts stir tensions in Real Estate at Flat Rock.
2006-10-14
Moderator's privilege: I think the wearing of the Confederate battle flag is wrong and shouldn't be allowed in a school. It's disruptive and it's generally meant to stick it in someone's eye. I know the arguments about 'heritage' and 'cultural pride'. I also was raised for a time in Virginia, and I know about some of the cultures. When you wear a Confederate battle flag in a mixed-race environment, you can count on some black citizens being upset -- they see the flag as one of oppression and supportive of slavery. I understand why.

Schools are places for education. Anything -- anything -- that disrupts education shouldn't be permitted. The Confederate battle flag is one of those things. School is difficult enough these days, we don't need to make it more difficult.

And before anyone sounds off, yes, I had family on both sides in the Civil War.
The banning of the Confederate flag on clothing at Flat Rock Middle School has opened a racial chasm at the school and is setting the stage for perhaps a bitter battle over upcoming new school boundary lines.

On Oct. 4, a group of students at the north Fayette middle school wore clothing from Dixie Outfitters depicting the Confederate flag. According to a letter sent to parents by Principal Oatha Mann, the clothing “caused a disruption of the learning environment.”

“Due to this incident, we are not allowing the wearing of clothing that depicts the Confederate flag. The decision was not made lightly and is a response to the situation that disrupted the learning process. Any clothing that incites disruption will also be addressed as necessary,” Mann wrote.

The CitizenÂ’s Web site has been abuzz with posters commenting on the issue, with many of them complaining about their perceptions that the school administration treats black students with slogan T-shirts more leniently than white students.

School spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach said school officials were not taking calls about the incident, and said tensions have cooled down this week. She said the incident was not widespread, and only a few students were involved. She dismissed a report from several posters who said that armed members of the SWAT unit from the Fayette County SheriffÂ’s Department patrolled the schoolÂ’s hallways in the aftermath of the flap.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  It's disruptive and it's generally meant to stick it in someone's eye.

But when the "Malcolm X was worn it's ignored?

This whole thing started with those Malcolm X tee shirts, and we southerners started wearing shirts with the slogan "Your "X" (malcolm)
Our "X" (Confederate Battle Flag)on the same shirt.

Try a little fair play, "Black" shirts are no more acceptable, (and no less)than the Confederate Flag Tee shirt.

Ban both or shut up.


Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-10-14 20:29  

#4  Bingo 5089. Seems to me that the younger generation is getting fed up with the double standard. It seems the choice of the confederate flag was more of a "let's see how you like it" than a statement of "white superiority".

Personally, I'm getting really sick of people who have never suffered a day of discrimination in their life, leaching off the suffering of their ancestors to give themselves an excuse to discriminate against others.

The double standards of the administrators are the issue here - not race or symbols.
Posted by: anon   2006-10-14 15:04  

#3  I think the wearing of the Confederate battle flag is wrong and shouldn't be allowed in a school.

I think a shirt showing the depiction of slaves picking cotton is very innappropriate.

How about that First Amendment thing? Awfully damned inconvenient isn't it? Next thing we know, people will be saying it is innappropriate to wear the American Flag, or show it in any way. Because we just don't want to offend anyone.

There's nothing like skinless people in a sandpaper world.

Bad times are coming, you can believe it and get prepared, or stick your head back in the sand and most likely get dead. If anyone here thinks that it won't be a free-for-all along ethnic divides, you're dreaming. You will only be able to count on your own kind, and even then it will be iffy.

Posted by: NoBeards   2006-10-14 14:55  

#2  Â“One girl wore a confederate shirt with 6 african slaves picking cotton on it. the black kids at the school freaked out and had a BIG problem with it. i happen to know this girl very well and she is and has been a southern activist. 100%!"

I think a shirt showing the depiction of slaves picking cotton is very innappropriate.

And will someone tell me what a 'southern activist' is?
Posted by: Penguin   2006-10-14 09:51  

#1  "Double-standards are good for you!"

I can't help noticing how much this fits with Fonte's description of transnational progressivism, and to William Goldnadel (french advocate, and conservative jewish thinker) 's martyrocracy... society as a collection of groups, democracy as a rule of special interest victim groups, and the White Male Order having to attone for all its sins.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-10-14 09:25  

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