Redneck Girl in South Carolina Pissed she Can’t Offend Black People at Her School
From MSNBC.COM:
Girl sues school over Confederate flag clothes
High school sophomore banned from attire with racially charged symbol
FLORENCE, S.C. - The family of a high school sophomore has filed a suit seeking to force school officials to allow the girl to wear clothing with Confederate flag images.
The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday by the North Carolina-based Southern Legal Resource Center, a Confederate heritage legal advocacy group.
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I believe she should be able to wear whatever she wants, but thats not the point, it speaks VOLUMES About this girls intelligence and lack of compassion, and it just further illustrates the selfishness and low moral fiber of “Redtopia”.
Chrono-Z — On 4-1-2006 at 8:41 pm
Trust me, most of us here in S.C. find this sort of thing to be disgusting and an embarrassment to our state. The loudest idiots get the most attention after all.
David Sikes — On 8-22-2006 at 5:31 pm
Displaying the confederate flag to me indcates where I’m from. I did not go to OSU, NCS or church! If you do not like this flag then don’t show me yours.
Porter Venn — On 8-22-2006 at 5:46 pm
So you’re a traitor then Sikes? After all, it’s the flag of the rebellion against the United States, if you choose to fly the Confederate Flag you’re loyalties are obvious.
Chad — On 1-2-2007 at 11:49 pm
Porter you need a history lesson. First of all how do you think the United States came to be? The people that wrote the Declaration of Indepence were rebels to their own country. They moved to North America to start their own country and their own laws. So they were also traitors and rebels. Some people have ancciestors that fought and died for what they thought was right. What is wrong with representing your past. NOTHING! So stop blowing this confederate flag thing out of proportion! If your from Germany im not gonna call you a Nazi and tell you to stop wearing that flag on your shirt. So think about what you write next time and dont just think about yourself. Maybe I should stop wearing a cross around my neck because it offends some people. NO! not in a million years.
Porter Venn — On 1-3-2007 at 11:51 am
Chad… yes you are correct, During the revolution we rebelled against England and formed this thing (After the ratification of the Constitution) called the United States of America. Then 80 years later, some of those states rebelled, and Lost. To wear a Confederate flag now, is to show longing support for a long lost cause of rebellion by an society that no longer exists. So if you want to look like some idiot whose for Slavery, Anti-Bellum States Rights, Plantation Society and Good ole boys, by all means, wear your stupid shirt. However don’t sit back and expect modern day 2007 Americans not to be offended.
Aaron — On 1-3-2007 at 8:48 pm
Call me a purist, but I have to largely agree with Chad on this one. There was much more to the rebellion than slavery, yet somehow the flag has come to define just that. You can’t expect some people to not be offended, Conversely you shouldn’t expect that everyone who displays it believes in slavery.
Bazule — On 1-3-2007 at 10:33 pm
And so if someone displays a Nazi flag, are we to think they are promoting the National Socialist Workers Party?
restless — On 1-4-2007 at 5:02 am
Wearing the Confederate flag or the Nazi flag (or displaying it on your front door or wherever) isn’t looked upon as a sign of rebellion. The problem is that it’s a statement by the wearers that “even though we lost, we still believe in bigotry and hatred as a viable philosophy of life.” Since there is still so much racial hatred and violence occurring, wearing or displaying such a “statement” is like saying: “I condone [and perhaps participate or would particpiate in] violence to others solely on the basis of their race.” Perhaps a Confederate flag wearer doesn’t mean this, though at the very least, it implies a back to the way things were when we were in charge type of thing. A Nazi flag certainly means something more sinister. Wearing a cross? Well, give it time. The way things are going, cross wearers may mean that the wearer believes in fascism and worse. Right now it just means you’re religious. And in this country we’re free to practice any religion we choose, since we have a seperation of Church and State. Don’t we? Uh, don’t we??
Aaron — On 1-4-2007 at 12:19 pm
The Nazi flag isn’t a good example to make comparrison. That flag came to represent an entire nation, not a specific region and its culture. Also, the Nazis came to power and had an opportunity to demonstrate what they were about - I’m not sure the same could be said for the CSA. That is, who’s to say that slavery wouldn’t have been abolished 10, 20 years after succession?
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No, a better comparrision would be, for example, Quebec and the fleur-de-lis. These are a people that recently came extremely close to soverieignty (via a peaceful process). They might still become soveriegn some day. An outsider finding the display of the fleur-de-lis might personally associate this with a particular economic principle or some political message. Meanwhile, the bearer of the flag might instead be principlayy proud of the symbol merely based on geography and cultural association.
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On a slightly side-note, I’m certain of the ignorance in the belief that 250,000 Southerners gave their lives solely, or primarily, for the principle of Slavery. There were more intrinsic and substantial reasons for their rebellion.