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School Board Bans Confederate Flag, Any Other Imagery Deemed to Be ‘Racially Hostile, Offensive or Intolerant’

Dec. 18, 2012 6:18pm Jason Howerton

Hays County School Board Bans Confederate Flag, Other Racially Offensive Imagery

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BUDA, Texas (TheBlaze/AP) — A Central Texas school board is banning the Confederate battle flag from district property and district-sponsored events.

Hays board members voted 5-2 Monday to amend the student code of conduct to ban the flag, which was formerly displayed with the Hays High School Rebel mascot. The ban also covers any imagery deemed to be “racially hostile, offensive or intolerant,” the Associated Press reports.

The action comes after two students were accused of writing racial slurs and urinating on the door of a black teacher’s classroom in May at Hays High. The school is in Buda, 15 miles south of Austin.

In October, the Hays board decided to keep Confederate anthem “Dixie” as the school fight song.

KVUE has more details on the history of the Confederate flag in the school district:

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:40pm
Southerners are being denied their heritage and their freedom of speech.

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:25pm
  That’s what happens when Yankees move in.
  
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- palerider54
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:48pm
  I now consider the rebel flag to be the flag of my country.
  
  Let the war begin.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:09pm
  american by birth…………southerner by the grace of god…………………
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:25pm
  apparently the constitution only keeps anything remotely religious away from schools, it doesn’t protect any of their other rights? That is why we have become a nation of victims, it starts in the schools where the kids learn they have no rights.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 10:06pm
  The more I read world history and American history, the more I realize how sick and tyrannical it for our Government to dictate the education of our children.
  
  The Government decides for us the education of our own children. The people are not represented by their Government anymore, but lectured to.
  
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- TEXAS-T
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 11:23pm
  Looks like somebody needs a new school board.
  Yankees welcome but leave you politics at the state line!
  
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- randy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:06am
  The school is in Buda, 15 miles south of AUSTIN.
  
  Well, That explains a lot…
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:59am
  Name one thing that doesn’t offend somebody. Or better yet who is resposible for quote unquote deciding what to deem racist or offensive. Cowboy jersey are offensive to red skin plays,red shirt are offensive to anti-communist,animals picture are offensive to those who don’t l;ike animals,glitter is offensive to epileptics….ect
  
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- football lady
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:33am
  Sad and true.
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:18am
  I demand an end to black history month then, I find it very racist.
  
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- Macman1138
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:24am
  Yes, and I have always noticed that it is okay to make fun of, deride, vilify and otherwise look down on southern white people.
  As a white southerner, I object to the words such as “red neck,” hill billy,” “*******,” as racists, and insensitive.
  You will see more of this in the South in the years to come as the self-hating sentiment of northern whites spreads south.
  
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- glassbeadlady
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:03am
  Not just southerners. We have a college in southern Utah called Dixie College, with the Confederate flag and we were the rebels. After 30+ years of this college, in the early 2000′s a gal came to college here and the Confederate flag gave her chills down her spine and we lost that, the name Dixie is being debated as it offends some students and now we may lose our Rebels. There was a bronze statue of soliders with the Confederate flag, after 27 year, gone. All this started happening when we got a liberal black college professor…Hummmm to P.C.? Yeap, it is tearing the community apart and think that was his goal, teach at a small Mormon town and tear it apart!
  
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- BenKatz
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:42am
  The south shall whine again, as always.
  
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Advection
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:37pm
Two questions: 1) Who defines “hostile, offensive and intolerant”? 2) Are they fearful of the South “rising again”?

1) If they can’t answer the first question quickly, succinctly and reasonably, then they haven’t punch much thought into their assault on the First Amendment.

2) If they aren’t afraid of the Confederacy rising again, then this is just more politically correct authoritarianism. (I bet it felt good, though.)

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- Macman1138
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:49pm
  I don’t give two hoots in Hades about the Confederacy or what people perceive it stands for as much as it it seems that white people in the south and from the south are supposed to be ashamed of who they are.
  I don’t have ant “white guilt” and it burns a lot of northerners to bits. I love it too.
  By the way…my great grandmother was Cherokee from Sullivan county Tennessee.
  
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RED-DAWN
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:29pm
While we did not Pee Pee on her door or write hurtful words on the wall, I remember taking and placing a real pair of “bull-balls” in our teacher’s top desk drawer one Friday when I was in high school. By Monday, the desk was taken over by maggots and I was given a “B” on my term paper because she refused to rescue and grade it, lucky me! That was over 30 years ago, I hope the “Statute of Limitations” has run out on that obvious criminal act?

The removal of this flag, song and other references to “The South” is simply their way of re-writing history. Well, go back and find you an old globe. One with the Mason-Dixon line on it and prepare yourself for future events. You will need to know where the line in the sand is drawn. It’s coming, I can feel it. Not looking for a fight but I damn sure am not going to run from one.

It must be a Mississippi thing?

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:27pm
  Its a ‘Freedom from DC’ thing.
  
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- UseTP2wipe
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:10am
  Well, if this is indicative of how most Southerners behaved in school, it’s no wonder you guys have such trouble “larnin’, writin’ and unnerstanin’ thangs.”
  Lets get this straight. The South will NOT rise again. Especially when it is overrun with dimwits, fools and racists.
  
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- texastommy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:54pm
  And if all you yankees would leave, we wouldn’t be overrun with dimwits, fools and racists anymore.
  
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:24pm
Oh sure, this makes sense. Get rid of anything that potentially could be deemed “hateful”; that will stop events like students urinating on a black teachers classroom door. For all we know, if there was a white teacher in that particular classroom they may very well have urinated on the door anyway….IF this even happened at all. Might as well ban eating fried chicken and watermellon on school grounds as well.

The confederate flag is part of our history. Slavery is part of our history. Why deny it? Why bury it? Slavery was a terrible thing, but it did exist. We would do better to preserve these symbols of our history (i.e., confederate flag reminding us of our slavery past), so that we do not forget that it was terrible; and thus, do not go back down that road again.

Unfortunately, liberals think that by banning these symbols, they are moving closer to their utopian goal. To them, the sky can be rose colored…..all you need to do is put the rose colored glasses on. They fail to recognize that you may put rose colored glasses on, the sky is still really blue.

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Are they going to ban the American flag? Pictures of obama? White people? Who decides what is offensive.
  
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- hayesstephen
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:15pm
  The third anchron. Nasty lair.You will not be happy until the United States is destroyed. Why do you not come out and say so? The end is very near for our once Mighty and Glorious Country, but White Liberal Trash have done everything in their power to insure we are destroyed from within. When our Constitution our Bill of Rights our way of life are gone, you White Liberal Trash will suffer more than any other group. When a group of people have been used as useful fools the new rulers make it the first concern to destroy those who helped them over throw the rightful government. When the round ups begin perhaps you will remember this warning. Its not far off.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:08pm
  Ninety-percent or more of Southern soldiers in the Confederate army did not own a slave and their families didn’t either.They fought for a lot of reasons but slavery wasn’t one of them. Most did not come from a large. rich plantation home. They were shopkeepers and dirt farmers. Most fought because they surmised that Washington d.c. was against States Rights and was dictating to them in many ways. The Southerner considered their states their countries and did not want to live under the yoke of Washington d.c. and the scoundrel there. They were right. I believe the same thing. With the union victory came federalism and the dictatorship of the federal government.
  
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- Rosemary Woodhouse
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:14pm
  And WHO are the slaves now? White people, heck…all taxpayers had better wake the hell up because retribution under the guise of redistribution is happening…..now!
  
  I hope at least one southern governor has the ****** to secede. Preferable, Governor Perry. The only problem he has is with spawn of illegals. Their parents or grandparents broke the laws of our land. Period. They can get on line just like everyone else wanting citizenship. Governor Perry….are you paying attention? YOU can be a hero. Just lose the soft spot for spawn of illegals!
  
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banjarmon
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:21pm
There is an old big busy Airport in a beautiful country setting. Peoples see the beautiful land around the airport and want to build a home near by. After a few months of living there and hearing the planes fly in day and night, The home owners association COMPLAINS AND WANTS TO BAN THE AIRPORT!!!
The airport was there FIRST dumb azz!!!!

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:36pm
  Yea, they come for the warm weather and then try to push us G.D. Rednecks out. I’ve told more than one to go home. So have my family members. Once Yankees start encountering hostilities, they’ll tell their idiot friends to avoid the area.
  
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taintso
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:14pm
the colors of the confederate flag must clash with the approved rainbow flag.

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ewoodard
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:08pm
lets all send some confederate flags to the school board! how about attending school board meetings with flag t shirts? This is nothing more than abidgement of speech… wheres the aclu ? why havent they pitched a fit? does the us contitution apply in this place?

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BlackCrow
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:03pm
Buda is an Austin suburb. Austin is a hotbed of liberalism and it doesn’t surprise me that it’s spilling over into Hays county. They try to close the Cabella’s then there will be trouble.

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- subic
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:18pm
  Austin, that explains it. Seems like every lib from CA is moving there.
  
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- Tex_Rabbit
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 11:58pm
  You nailed it.
  
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- Tex_Rabbit
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:00am
  You nailed it. Austin and it’s libby boys are there. Time to reelect the school board
  
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ShamanWorld
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:58pm
I think the confederate flag should not be flown by any official state or govt. capacity, but private citizens who are proud of their heritage, or confederate forefathers should be able to wave the flag. Just like black folks who have the black,green and red flag flying in front of their homes.

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- mecbb55
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:01pm
  meh…more like ex-nazis who still want to display an SS flag.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:03pm
  One is (state) history, while the other is an invitation. History is re-written by those that can.
  
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The Third Archon
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:54pm
Why is it conservatives, who pride themselves as the only supposed “true” patriots, ALSO the ones who get a ***** for a bunch of traitors to the United States? Height of hypocrisy and irony much? You people really are a satire on yourselves.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:03pm
  Traitors? You mean Lincoln? Are the Egyptians “traitors”? How about those kid in Tianinmen Square decades ago…traitors? The Baltic states? All traitors?
  
  If you are referring to the South then you too are a traitor. Perhaps you should shuffle on back to wherever you came from and swear allegiance to that crown/flag.
  
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- Rob
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:17pm
  We don’t trust the government, especially that a-hole Obama, and we must be ready to fight.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:40pm
  Yes–with the exception of Lincoln (who was the legitimate and democratically elected president of the WHOLE United States), ALL those people were technically traitors to their own government. SOME of them were actually noble in their rebellion–the South was not. The South disrespected our political traditions of democracy and spat on the American social contract, all for their own economic selfishness and the desire of southern elites to retain their economic power through perpetuating their ownership of other human beings as property. So screw them.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:24pm
  ROTHBARDIAN. “Traitors? You mean Lincoln?”
  
  A ‘BARDIAN giving a shout-out to Lincoln? Say it ain’t so…?? Lol.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:40pm
  You’re clueless. The South had every right to succede. Benedict Arnold was a traitor. There’s a difference.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:46pm
  You must be a college student. There were black slave owners, too. Nowadays, we don’t call them slaves, we call them debtors or taxpayers. Section 8 for life is far worse than slavery. A slave could hope to buy themselves out someday. I don’t see anyone in the projects working for a better future. They contribute nothing to society, but crime, drugs and votes for Dem’s.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:01pm
  It’s “secede”. The south can claim all responsibility for the fine mess we find ourselves in now Cotton and slaves……Sherman had the right idea…total, complete warfare. The only problem was he didn’t burn ALL of Atlanta
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:06am
  The Third Archon
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:40pm
  
  Yes–with the exception of Lincoln (who was the legitimate and democratically elected president of the WHOLE United States), ALL those people were technically traitors to their own government.
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  “Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. ”
  -Abraham Lincoln, Speech in The House of Representatives, January 12, 1848
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:49pm
Crap. No “Dukes of Hazzard” lunchbox for them…

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:09pm
  And the dress code prohibits daisy dukes?
  
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B-Neil
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:45pm
If your all for this BANNING stuff, Go live in Europe. I don’t like that: BAN IT. I don’t like this; BAN IT. To tell the truth, I’m waiting for the big book burning. If you Progressives have a problem with Freedom and Individual Freedom; get yourself a one way ticket out. You will not hurt my feelings. Make room for us breather. We will not submit to your desires or way way of thinking. MERRY CHRISTMAS and GOD BLESS ONE AND ALL

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- mecbb55
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:00pm
  you dont like to ban things but you want people who disagree with you to leave the country. thanks but no thanks. ill enjoy my freedoms here without submitting to your desires or your way of thinking. what is so threatening about opposing points of view?
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:01pm
  B – O, izzat you?
  
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- thesiren
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:21pm
  See, funny thing, but I thought it was the religious right that was into burning books…
  
  Also, if you are against banning things just because some people don’t like said thing, you must be against the ban on gay marriage, right? I mean, anyone who isn’t okay with gays getting married should just move to another country, don’t you think?
  
  Also please pay for my ticket and moving expenses and I will be more than glad to get the hell out of the USA
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:13am
  mecbb55
  what is so threatening about opposing points of view?
  
  Nothing ***** until you decide that the other persons thinking should be banned. I don’t give a damn what your opinion is but I don’t begrudge you the right to have it. Why is it all you supposedly enlightened libs think everyone elses opinion is wrong and yours is right? do you guys have some kind of mind meld thing going on which makes individual critical thinking impossible? I afford you the right to think and exist the way that you want to, why is it that you can’t do the same for me?
  
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- mecbb55
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:41am
  phil-
  
  can you read or just type? it is the original poster, the conservative, who wants people who disagree with him to leave the country. not me, the “enlightened lib”. i do not think that anyone or anyone’s opinion should ever be banned. get it? why put all of these words into my mouth instead of actually reading the posts? i think someone is suffering from a little transference with a little passive-aggressive behavior on the side.
  
  also, phil, is it really necessary to curse at me over the internet?
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:38pm
15 miles south of Austin eh? They probably have the rainbow push flag flying no doubt.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:51pm
  lol… Above the 1/2 mast American flag maybe?
  
  oops… can you say “1/2 mast” when talking about Rainbow Flaggers?
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:59pm
  @Progressiveslayer.
  Actually,the liberal influence is a spillover from Austin,where i live,20 years ago, had they tried this,they would have gotten their asses kicked, by every farmer and rancher around,and they still might…….
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:04pm
  At least now we have highway 130 so we can bypass that embarrassment all together.
  
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- dosdelgados
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:44pm
  @Roth – SO glad not to have to sit in the parking lot that is I-35!!!
  
  Love the speed limit, too.
  
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Wiggyky
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:33pm
What did the Confederate Flag have to do with those two boys? Were they carrying one while doing their criminal behavior? The School Board MUST explain.

Secondly, to prove the School Board are hypocrites is that they did not include the American Flag which also flew over the same Battles that the Confederate Flag flew over.

Come on School Board, I defy you to explain your hypocrisy. I doubt you have the ethics, integrity or the guts to do so.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:58pm
  Did they urinate on the teacher’s door because she is black? If so, certainly that is offensive and should be dealt with appropriately. Or, did they urinate on the door because of something else? If so, they should still be dealt with appropriately, but they should not be labeled racists. As for the flag, I guess they just think it apparently provided the incentive to do what they did.
  
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MisterSarcastic
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:32pm
The ban also covers any imagery deemed to be “racially hostile, offensive or intolerant,” the Associated Press reports.

I suppose they’re going to ban the American flag, too.

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:37pm
  They are getting to that, just be patient!
  
  Check out Joel Skousen. Strategic Relocation.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:46pm
  Winners/Losers.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:53pm
  I’m sure that includes “Malcom X” ballcaps, too?…. right?
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:11pm
  And peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Fried Chicken and Watermelon Too??? DAMN that MY favorite FOOD!!!!
  
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braddock66
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:32pm
This is why we have these shootings. Kids cannot deal with rejection because you cannot offend anyone and everybody gets a trophy.

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- mecbb55
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:03pm
  20 6 year-old-kids got shot because of participation trophies? please explain (in greater detail) this bold claim.
  
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topperj
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:30pm
So instead of dealing with the two miscreants, these nambi-pambs go off the deep end. Aren’t school supposed to educate? Take these two and educate them and leave the rest of the student body alone. Let the two do penance and report back to the student body. Erasing vestiges and images of our history is not the answer.

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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:51pm
  Nazi’s burned books and Communists rewrote the books. This is the same thing.
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:30pm
The South Carolina Statehouse flew a Confederate States of America Battle Flag until 2000. It still flies on the grounds, at the Confederate Memorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Statehouse#Grounds

American by Grace, Southeron by choice.

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:37pm
  There’s still a rebel flag flying in a town (and on city property) near my home in SC
  
  My take: American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
  
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- jeremyrabernathy
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:41pm
  American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Southern isn’t Southeron
  
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Nerzhul
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:28pm
Then anti white symbols should be banned as well, get rid of all racial things

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- silquin11
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:29pm
  “racially hostile, offensive or intolerant,” ? Then we definitely need to ban ban Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Van Jones, and the rest of dopes ANTI WHITE dopes that promote racial intolerance and hostility through music, films, Tv and wherever they can. I say send them to Tanzania or Zimbabwe and see how well they do over there!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:26pm
That’s right you progressive pukes wipe away our history and replace it with your fairy tale BS stories. The sooner we get government out of the business of education the better,they have no business being in education to begin with.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:31pm
  We need another civil war.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:46pm
  The Confederate flag ISN’T part of “our” history–it’s part of the history of a treasonous group of separatists that attempted, but failed, to break away from the United States. As such, it’s neither “American history,” nor something to be celebrated.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:58pm
  Actually 3rd…. They were their own Country for a short while.
  Had their own President, Capitol, currency, and they had no representation in U.S. Congress during that time, either.
  People died defending that flag. Trying to pretend it didn’t happen doesn’t make sense.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:38pm
  Yes, THEIR OWN President, Capitol, Currency etc.–NOT that of the United States. That is exactly why I say the flag is a part of THEIR history, NOT our own. The Union won, they lost, and they should be remembered for the despicable, and unjustified, traitors they were. I’m not saying to forget history, I’m saying that we should not celebrate the history of a seditious hostile foreign nation.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 8:59pm
  Lincoln was the traitor to the Constitution, not the South. I know this because, after the war, all the Southern soldiers were freed, not tried for treason. The Yankees did not want treason cases going to court and being thrown out, because most Southern soldiers signed up with the Confederate Army after seccession. This would have made them look like the criminals that they actually were. They invaded a free and sovreign nation. Only a fool calls them traitors.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 9:04pm
  Have to agree with you Archon. Every West Pointer that fought for the South should have been hung for treason.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 10:28pm
  The Third Archon
  I would celebrate the bravery & courage of the Confederate fighting man & leave it at that.
  
  I would NOT celebrate the Missouri Compromise, the Mason-Dixon line or admitting any new state as a slave state.
  
  The south had a legal right to secede but they were doing so for an immoral purpose.
  
  What I want is reparations from the various nations in Africa for engaging in the slave trade.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 11:51pm
  Walkabout
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 10:28pm
  The south had a legal right to secede but they were doing so for an immoral purpose.
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  Seeking relief from oppressive taxation is not an ‘immoral purpose’:
  
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  “Prior to the U. S. “Civil War” there was no U. S. income tax. Considerably more than 90% of U. S. government revenue was raised by a tariff on imported goods. A tariff is a tax on selected imports, most commonly finished or manufactured products. A high tariff is usually legislated not only to raise revenue, but also to protect domestic industry from foreign competition. By placing such a high, protective tariff on imported goods it makes them more expensive to buy than the same domestic goods. This allows domestic industries to charge higher prices and make more money on sales that might otherwise be lost to foreign competition because of cheaper prices (without the tariff) or better quality. This, of course, causes domestic consumers to pay higher prices and have a lower standard of living. Tariffs on some industrial products also hurt other domestic industries that must pay higher prices for goods they need to make their products. Because the nature and products of regional economies can vary widely, high tariffs are sometimes good for one section of the country, but damaging to another section of the country.”
  http://www.ashevilletribune.com/archives/censored-truths/Morrill Tariff.html
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:40am
  The Third Archon
  I thought you idiot libs were against nation building, does that mean unless it is people trying to seperate from what you deem to be the correct form of government. If you really want to know the truth the North was as treasonous as the South, they declared war on a segment of people for exercising their constitutional rights to throw off a government that they deemed oppressive to states rights. Go ahead jacka$$ read the constitution because that provision is in there.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:49pm
  KidCharlemagne
  
  Your link did not work for me. Maybe you have access & I don’t
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The_Jerk
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:25pm
Sue for your rights.

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Walkabout
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:25pm
Don’t suspend or expel these kids.

Prosecute them put them in jail a month & make them perform a couple thousand hours of community service.

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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:25pm
Now-a-days everything is racial – peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, big bird, oreos, shoes, fishing poles, 8-track tape players, the bandaid on my knee. Whether the kids urinated on the teacher’s door was because he was black or white is irrelevant. The kids should be kicked out of the school.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:32pm
  It’s all about speech control. It favors minorities, blacks, Jews, Hispanics, homosexuals… .
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:04pm
  I agree with you JERK. Once again, .001 % of the people commit a crime or an unjust deed and everyone has to pay the price. Typical liberal response.
  
  We have a huge Stars & Bars flag flying high here in FL along I-75 just south of Tampa sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The NAAACP The national association for advancement of angry colored people have stomped up and down trying to get it removed but they have been squashed every time they throw a tantrum.
  
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Silversmith
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:25pm
While no one condones slavery, it was just one issue in the civil war. I don’t see how you can refer to the confederacy without using the flag. History combines a lot of different and sometimes unsavory things within a given event. Sac up y’all and face it responsibly.

Silversmith

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- Marine25
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:25pm
  No one is saying the Confederate flag doesn’t have a place in history. Flying it on school grounds or having the mascot carry it is a different story.
  “just one issue of the Civil War…’, you seriously don’t fall for that crap do you? While there were several DIFFERENCES between northern and southern states, only one, the belief that the 1860 election signaled a shift in political power that would soon enable the congress to abolish slavery, warrented the war. Compare the two constitutions. Outside of the eternal protections granted to slavery, there is very little difference. The Confederates even ironically kept the provision allowing the suspension of habeus corpus in the event of rebellion. Few of the changes, outside of slavery, were significant as shown by the fact that only 2 of the changes had ever been considered in Congress before 1861. Southerners like to say the war was not about slavery, I imagine it’s ancestorally convenient, it certainly was in my family, but primary sources like the writings and speeches of Lincoln and Davis and the two Constitutions all point to it being a one issue war.
  
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- taintso
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:44pm
  And then came the 14th and we are all slaves.
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:24am
  Marine25
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:25pm
  
  Southerners like to say the war was not about slavery, I imagine it’s ancestorally convenient, it certainly was in my family, but primary sources like the writings and speeches of Lincoln
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  Oh…..you mean like Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address?:
  
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  “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”
  -Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
  
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Metallicat
Posted on December 18, 2012 at 6:24pm
Does that also include all the Latino pride propaganda as well?

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:13pm
  No, that doesn’t fit the agenda.
  
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