Students Suspended Indefinitely For Confederate Flag

[TheBox]

Oh yes...

that's right. and the Civil War wasn't about "slavery" right? It was more about "State Rights," amirite?

LOL

dem tariffs

 

[SammyPops]

You're a fool if you think the civil war was only about slavery.

funny how you call me a food, but post nothing else. fail.

 

[shunyata]

Don't care about the suspensions; play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

I am, however, disappointed in the journalism. Heroic restraint my ass. This is the kind of melodramatic language the liberals on this board have a love affair with abusing.

This x 1000.

Suspensions were earned. WTF did they think was going to happen?

But the idea that black kids fly into a violent rage at the site of the flag is nearly as racist as bringing it to school.


The kids were trying to push a boundary. They found it. It pushed back.

 

[GhostZ06]

Am i the only black person who doesn't give a shit about the Confederate Flag? Rednecks are far to stupid to understand the meaning behind it. it isn't just about slavery, i love how that part is always over looked.

 

[SammyPops]

I like how you purposely ignored the 'mass murder' part.

why is mass murder worse than just working people to death and random murders? How about murdering people for not wanting to be slaves/

I truly do not understand your argument- one kind of total brutality towards one group is worse than total brutality than another group?

Both were systemic govt acts of the worse kind, no?

So who was worse by your logic Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, or Mao's China?

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

funny how you call me a food, but post nothing else. fail.

 

[ncordless]

Am i the only black person who doesn't give a shit about the Confederate Flag? Rednecks are far to stupid to understand the meaning behind it. it isn't just about slavery, i love how that part is always over looked.

Well, assuming you are from the South, my guess is that you've had the stars and bars waved in your face for long enough you've gotten over it. In the rest of the world, it's not that common to have some ignorant fuck waving that flag around, and black people are not as resigned to it.

And it may not be just about slavery. It may not be just about traitors. But it is the flag of slavers and traitors, and anybody waving it around for other causes will still be associated with slavers and traitors.

 

[UpaLoompa]

And it may not be just about slavery. It may not be just about traitors. But it is the flag of slavers and traitors, and anybody waving it around for other causes will still be associated with slavers and traitors.

I find it amusing when self-proclaimed patriots display the flag.

 

[Jimmy Tuna**]

Private school

No issue here

 

[Halge]

educate me?

didn't the south fight a war to protect tis right to own black people, work them to death, rape black women whenever they wanted, beat and murder black slaves?

They did cite their right to the slave system as a major reason for their cessation, if that's what you mean*. Not sure about the murdering or raping or working to death though. Those were explicitly forbidden even in the deep south**.

But above all the war was about protecting their rights as states. There is a reason they called their new government "confederacy", after all.

This is the connotation the confederate flag has for most people flying it today. But some people want it to mean something else.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes

**http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html

 

[Strychnine]

It's a private school. You pay to go there, if you don't like their rules, then pay to go somewhere else. They played a game of chicken against the 600lb gorilla that was their private school and got ragdolled as they should've.

The Confederate flag is the flag of traitors to America and the people that fly it deserve to be treated no less.

 

[mantronix]

And it may not be just about slavery. It may not be just about traitors. But it is the flag of slavers and traitors, and anybody waving it around for other causes will still be associated with slavers and traitors.

What about the Union Jack? That flag was waving in the wind on slave ships coming to offload their bounties in America.

 

[Lord of Lies]

Haha. I saw a car in Italy recently that had a Confederate flag painted on the roof. Also saw a boat in Venice (Italy) that was painted like the General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard.

 

[Halge]

The Confederate flag is the flag of traitors to America and the people that fly it deserve to be treated no less.

See, this guy gets it. It's not about slavery at all, but allegiance.

 

[ncordless]

What about the Union Jack? That flag was waving in the wind on slave ships coming to offload their bounties in America.

Was the United Kingdom created to protect the institution of slavery?

 

[UpaLoompa]

They did cite their right to the slave system as a major reason for their cessation, if that's what you mean*. Not sure about the murdering or raping or working to death though. Those were explicitly forbidden even in the deep south**.

But above all the war was about protecting their rights as states. There is a reason they called their new government "confederacy", after all.

So you're agreeing that the state right they sought to protect above all others was slavery. Great, we're all in agreement then.

 

[UpaLoompa]

See, this guy gets it. It's not about slavery at all, but allegiance.

Except that you already agreed that slavery was a major reason.

 

[Halge]

Except that you already agreed that slavery was a major reason.

Not today it isn't. Today the confederate flag is about freedom. Racist accusations is a strawman argument.

 

[Hollywood Nicky]

Don't care about the suspensions; play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

I am, however, disappointed in the journalism. Heroic restraint my ass. This is the kind of melodramatic language the liberals on this board have a love affair with abusing.

pretty much this. heroic?

 

[mantronix]

Was the United Kingdom created to protect the institution of slavery?

So it's cool to participate in the slave trade as long as you don't fight to protect slavery?