North Carolina school board rejects ban on Confederate flag

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

North Carolina school board rejects ban on Confederate flag
Updated 5:40 pm, Tuesday, February 28, 2017


HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina school board has voted not to ban the Confederate flag from school grounds, rejecting two pleas from a local chapter of the NAACP to establish the policy.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/2m9A7kC) the Orange County Schools Board of Education decided instead on Monday to establish an equity committee to advise the board on several issues, including symbolic speech. Board chairman Steven Halkiotis said board members will not tolerate hate speech, bullying or intimidation.

The Northern Orange County NAACP had asked the board to ban the Confederate flag on school grounds during the board's earlier meeting in February.

"To the NAACP, that includes the historical context of the Confederate flag to slavery, the Confederacy, the Civil War and Jim Crow," NAACP President Patricia Clayton said in a letter to school board members. "For many, the flag is a racially inflammatory symbol, which is undeniably rooted in slavery and racism. Given OCS' commitment to serve all students, the district should not allow the Confederate flag on its campuses."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/North-Carolina-school-board-rejects-ban-on-10966586.php

[Chicago1980]

1. Start burning them.

[yuiyoshida]

2. Racists gotta be Racist...

[kimbutgar]

3. Sounds like some progressives need to run fir the school board

And now they got ammo against them.

[Ligyron]

4. Well, can they have a NAZI flag too?

Surely they don't fly Confederate Flags at the school?

[MyMission]

5. Southerners use the flag as a fashion accessory

I live in NC. As far as I.know, the schools in NC do not fly the confederate flag; but they do not, as a rule, prevent students from wearing the flag or displaying it as a sticker or, specifically in this case, as a flag flying from their truck, which is parked in the school parking lot all day. Most rednecks have trucks, and too many like to fly confederate or trump flags. Same difference.

[keithbvadu2]

6. They go well together, Nazi/Confederate flags

[TeamPooka]

7. There are many reasons most of us are boycotting all business with NC.

This is but one of them.

[phylny]

8. Traitor flag.

Confederate Traitor flag.

Treason flag.

Confederate Treason flag.

Treasonous Confederate flag.

Anti-American Confederate flag.

Those are the words I would use to refer to that piece of cloth from now on.

[Cha]

9. Dwell in the damn racist past school board in NC.. you got

a Democratic Gov. That must piss you the hell off.

[CRK7376]

10. Leave it to my state...

to be stupid about the Confederate Flag...Last Friday(end of Black History Month) one of the kids in my Civics class wore a Southern Heritage hat in class. After looking at it closely, I had a chat with him, center mass of the emblem was none other than Nathan Bedford Forrest....We talked about why it was inappropriate to wear that sort of hat to school. He stated that most don't know who NB Forrest was, and my reply was that I did and that students in my American History I class knew who he was. We ended the conversation on a positive note, that he would not wear that hat to school again, that I and others found it offensive regardless of it being about Southern Heritage....Next time he will go to the office and I told them I handled it Friday, but the next time they get to wade into the mix...

[Baconator]

11. I generally err on the side of free speech...

Let folks self identify...

Either they can be engaged and reasoned with or they are easily identified as morons.

Either way is good.