Confederate flag incident at Virginia high school sparks concern of racist behavior
All it took was five minutes. “Meet by the trophy case,” a student at Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, Va., posted on Snapchat this month. Soon, about 20 students dressed in black and camouflage gathered in the hallway for an impromptu photo shoot with yellow Gadsden “Don’t tread on me” banners and Confederate battle flags. “Welcome to JF,” the caption reads.
In another photo, posted to Snapchat on Feb. 4, a girl poses in the school cafeteria with a Confederate flag draped over her shoulders. The photo’s caption reads: “If you got a problem with everything then suck it up, it’s history and heritage, wanna fight history then talk to Hitler I don’t care.”
The incidents have resurrected concerns about the high school’s culture and have come amid soul-searching on campuses across the nation about the persistence of racist imagery — images that once dwelled on the printed pages of yearbooks and that now spread like a toxic wildfire on social media.
The Bedford County School Board addressed the incidents Thursday, with Superintendent Douglas Schuch reassuring those in attendance that administrators were taking the matter “very seriously,” county schools spokesman Ryan Edwards said.
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Per the second paragraph the Confederates have more in common with Hitler than America.
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