Ban on Confederate flag shirts
We read:
"A full federal appeals court won't hear a lawsuit by three Tennessee students threatened with suspension if they wore Confederate flag T-shirts. A three-judge panel ruled in August that Blount County, just south of Knoxville, could ban the clothing. On Friday, the judges denied a request for a hearing by the full federal appeals court in Cincinnati.
Students Derek Barr and Craig and Chris White argued their free speech rights were violated by the ban on clothes with the flag, which is considered a symbol of racism and intolerance by some and an emblem of Southern heritage by others.
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6 comments:
If Dixie would have won Obama would be picking my cotton today!
What a pleasant thought!
The court probably would have allowed the school to ban Nazi items as well. The victors write the history books.
If Southerners still had their pride, which they obviously do not, every single Southerner would wear that shirt in defiance. Hundreds of thousands of brave Americans died fighting for that flag, not because it stands for racism, but because it represents their South. And to have some politically radical, whining blacks, backed by their guilt-ridden, White leftist supporters, turn that flag into something ugly, is disgusting and anti-American!
Well, at least two of the students are clearly racist: Craig and Chris WHITE. I'm surprised that they aren't being forced to change their names to be more racially sensitive.
I bet if they wore a Palestinian flag shirt it would be allowed as well as a Soviet Union, Cuban, Venezuelan, Libya, etc. Such a double standard.
That flag has been frequently used by openly racist people though so it's not at all clear cut as some would imply since it has been made into a symbol of that racism.
I have a problem with this active suppression of racist talk and symbols though because it only move the racists underground and makes them harder to identify and therefore harder to handle properly.
I'd much prefer them be allowed to espouse their views more openly so they can be known for who they are.
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