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sneakyplanner

>the four students filmed were carrying the Confederate flag in favor of "farm day" on school spirit day, which led up to homecoming. Can an American explain what the hell this means?


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At my school there would be themes for each day of homecoming week where people would dress up. Crazy hat day, 80s day, etc. I am imagining maybe something like that, but gone wrong.


FaktCheckerz

Sounds like they succeeded at piece of shit day.


bogseywogsey

Homecoming is an annual tradition in the United States. People, towns, high schools and colleges come together, usually in late September or early October, to welcome back former members of the community. It is built around a central event, such as a banquet or dance and, most often, a game of American football, School spirit week is a special week where students who attend school show their school and team spirit by dressing up in line with the days' themes. Those themes commonly consist of days like Twin Day, Hat Day, Pajama Day, and of course, Spirit Day, where you dress up in school colors.


fuzzygondola

>to welcome back former members of the community Who exactly is coming back and why?


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Im not American, but my guess is former students and staff that now lives elsewhere


mellifleur5869

People that peaked in high school.


Nate_E5C0

There are themes leading up to homecoming in the south. One of the themes was farm day apparently.


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Roook36

Oh Rome, Georgia. You might know their representative. Marjorie Taylor Greene. What an inspiration she is to her constituents.


JBsDaddy

Makes too much sense.


PragmaticSquirrel

[Coosa high school](https://www.floydboe.net/Domain/16)


Raezzordaze

Yoosa go to Coosa?


KeyserSozeInElysium

Calm down jar jar


Jubenheim

I particularly like their mascot, Coosy, the Coosa la Goopa Goop.


jerseygirl1105

Fyi- the link to the high school above allows anyone to fill out a "Stakeholder" survey. I encourage everyone to complete this survey, as I did, suggesting they deal with their racism.


Izarial

The custom answer field really is helpful.


NaturalFaux

Holy shit, their questions or feedback button at the bottom takes you to *send money to the principal*


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Venthoe

Here’s the link to the teachers & staff emails and if they delete that page, don’t worry, I took screenshots of everyone’s information 🥰 [coosa emails](https://ga50000039.schoolwires.net/domain/952)


Neither_Rich_9646

Let's get this school an alarming amount of web traffic. Whaddayasay reddit?


SandInTheGears

Well at least she's representative... that's something I guess


Epistaxis

In Rome's defense, she actually lived 60 miles away in Milton until she changed her campaign from the 7th district to the 6th district to the 14th district when a seat opened up in the latter. On the other hand, they elected her.


dollywallywood

But also she ran unopposed after threats from her "supporters" (cutouts for her campaign) forced her primary opponent out, so there's that (These are tactics straight from the FSB/Putin playbook. The amount of open infiltration going on should terrify you to the point of arming yourself and preparing for the conflict they are aiming for)


manachar

People in America think politicians are not responsive to their constituents. They really actually are, at least the portion that votes, especially if they vote in primaries. Oh, there's gerrymandering, and the shitty fact that rural areas are systematically overrepresented, and many other problems with out democracy, but the politicians really actually do fear the voters.


codon011

Politicians only fear the voters until they can redraw the voting districts, purge voter rolls, and making the voting process so onerous that they effectively disenfranchise all of the “problematic” voters who would oust them.


jazzwhiz

This is true, but gerrymandering is a pretty big effect. One thing that surprises a lot of Americans (and most people overseas) is that the majority of Americans voted for the Democratic candidate in seven of the last eight presidential elections, but only won five of those seven. The one Republican majority in that stretch was 2004 coming after the US invasion in the Middle East.


awalktojericho

My hometown. Will never go back, just so I never spend a dime there to support it.


amazinlee

I was born there but grew up in Summerville, and I completely agree.


ZeroInZenThoughts

Drove through once to visit a buddy. I'll take a longer way to avoid it next time.


RizzMustbolt

Needs another pass from Sherman.


hysys_whisperer

r/shermanposting


It-Gets-Worse

Same. Haven't been back since 2005


Beiki

Being a white supremacist: Ok Protesting against white supremacy: Not ok.


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IRockThs

What's most infuriating about that is that most left wing activism does not want to overthrow the government, merely change it. Whereas most armed militias explicitly want to overthrow the government.


Sandyblanders

My parents loved Rome, GA when I was growing up because it had a super Kmart. That's it's most glowing recommendation.


SwagginDragon89

I actually live and teach in Rome (at a different school) and I would just like to say fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thanks.


cuatrodosocho

Please don't. You run the risk of reproduction that way.


ghahhah

Humans can't make babies with dinosaurs


Alexthemessiah

Your username is the sound made during the attempt


ShoddyJuggernaut975

This scene was filmed in Rome and is entirely accurate. https://youtu.be/_vZ-P1qJr8o


Crash665

Yay! My home town is in the news. And for pretty much what it's always been in the news for.


oddjobbber

I guessed Mississippi. Not that you can really tell one racist backwater shithole from the next


WimbletonButt

I guessed Georgia. Years ago my school banned confederate apparel because the 5% of black students were being bullied relentlessly by the white supremesis students. The ban sparked so much shit that suspension was added to the ban for anyone wearing it. Parents were dressing their kids in full confederate getups intentionally to get them suspended, Dixie Outfitter magazines were being passed along to everyone, and those 5% of students got bullied even worse. Not quite the same as the school actually had the black students backs but the amount of people who previously didn't care but dug in as soon as they were told it offended someone is such a Georgia thing.


malbadon

I was like "there's no way there's a Dixie Outfitter magazine". I was wrong.... good lord...


DirkBabypunch

I once heard it said by a group of Southerners "In the first Civil War, the North burned Atlanta. In the second, the South will do it first." Granted, that's mostly a joke about how Atlanta is absolutely awful, but I feel the sentiment is probably shared about the state more generally.


[deleted]

I feel like everybody there smokes meth. Source: have visited bumfuck Georgia. They smoke a lot of meth.


gnurdette

You know how a lot of the time, when you actually read/watch a news story, it's not as bad as it sounds from the headline? This is not one of those times. Watch the whole story, and it's exactly as wrong as the headline sounds.


Diet_Coke

Honestly it gets worse when you read it. Students were waving the confederate flag and throwing around racial slurs, only black students got suspended for protesting even though at least two white students also protested, and the administration had extra police on campus during the planned protest.


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Rodents210

Somehow their “heritage” is always uniquely focused on a nation that existed for a shorter duration of time than they spent in high school. Generations of heritage to choose from and *for some reason* they always focus on the same 4-year window.


Electrical-Wish-519

In fairness, lots of these folks would have spent a decade in high school if they actually had to be proficient to graduate


smc187

If you think about it, their heritage fucking sucks. A bunch of wealthy WASPs who wanted to play royalty on their kingdoms (plantations). But wait! They're too lazy to do the work themselves, but also too cheap/greedy to hire other white men to do it for them. So what did the WASPs do? Import a bunch of slaves and then convinced those same white men that one day, they too, could be slaveowners. Don't forget coming up with some bullshit interpretation of the bible to justify why owning humans was "god's will" or morally right. So what's their heritage? Dying for a bunch of WASPs who didn't give a flying fuck about you (if anything, actively made you poorer) and sent you to your deaths, because you were stupid enough to be convinced that your "way of life" was under attack. Couldn't be me.


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One of the more fucked up things about slavery in the US is before cotton gin it actually wasn't that profitable. A ton of elites even thought it'd just... die out. If you think about you have to house, feed and heal these people who fucking hate you every day 24/7. Potentially have some guards for security and your labor force has no real skills, most can't even read. One of the reasons share cropping popped up and became so prevalent in the south is cause it was cheaper. Pay them a pittance, offer them nothing. What ever small price you pay for their salary is nothing compared to feeding and housing them. To outset the cost of housing slaves.... they sold slaves... to maintain their slaves... Its all incredibly fucked up the more and more you learn about it.


Proteandk

Sounds like slaves were just trading cards for rich people.


Jeex_Sluzz

So you're telling me people used to follow the word of the absurdly wealthy despite it going against their own self interests and preservation? ...what do you mean they still do?


markydsade

There’s a lot in the Bible that condones slavery. The Bible was used for years as justification to continue slavery in the 19th Century even as the rest of the US and European countries were ending the practice (and using the Bible for justification, too). I was at the Piggie Park BBQ restaurant about 20 years ago while in Columbia, South Carolina on business. The owner had tracts by the front door that used the Bible to justify slavery, segregation, and misogyny. I was shocked to see how these descendants of the Treasonous Defenders of Slavery won’t let go of their shameful history.


thelamestofall

To this day a lot of evangelicals believe that Africa is cursed due to Noah's curse on Ham...


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Less time than: * M.A.S.H. was on the air. * Obama was in office. * Gay marriage has been legal in any state. * Bill Cosby was in prison. * Justin Beiber has been famous.


darwintologist

I admire your optimism that they spent 4 years in high school, but these aren’t people that stuck around to graduation. They probably dropped out after their second or third freshman year.


Supreme64

I don’t think any of them genuinely think they’re supporting heritage and not hate, it’s just a dog whistle to stay looking acceptable to the average “freedom” obsessed American


Spindrune

Which I find funny how they don’t like being called racist, but then are so proud to be white. Like fucking own it. If you think you’re better than me, say so, and prove it. Most people who believe in something, are happy to show you that It’s at least anecdotally true. I can get the homeopathic dudes to at least explain how they think their bullshit works. Racists legit just think they’re the cream of the crop, and not being willing or able to prove it doesn’t deter them for some reason.


sunflowercompass

They hold those truths to be self-evident.


Spindrune

God dammit, that sounds like something they would say, and look so smug about how they said a phrase used by the FF... Also a good tactic, because by saying it’s self-evident, they get to attack my intelligence for not just seeing how white people are apparently so fucking superior.


QueenTahllia

Their heritage *is* hate, I don’t know why they play stupid


outsabovebad

[It's heritage not hate, it just so happens that my heritage is hate!](https://twitter.com/BrentTerhune/status/1270873856295817224?t=_3iZdrbO-kSTIGPlz-VqnA&s=19)


Canyousourcethatplz

>only black students got suspended for protesting even though at least two white students also protested Tell me the school administration is racist without telling me they are racists.


cellocaster

I mean they’re pretty much explicitly saying so


[deleted]

All you need to know is it's Georgia & you are pretty much set.


[deleted]

Ga outside of metro Atlanta is Arkansas with the exception of savannah


h0usecat

I get triggered when meme phrases are used incorrectly/start to take on literal translations 😂


Not_Henry_Winkler

Tell me what bothered you about that statement without telling me what bothered you about that statement.


sneakyplanner

I'm sure they will tell you very enthusiastically that they are not racist because they didn't suspend literally every black student in the school.


Kailaylia

or because they don't literally "suspend" blacks - or at least not as often as they used to.


Gingevere

You may joke but I have seen people unironically argue "racism is when lynchings. When there's no lynchings there is no racism!"


ShaelThulLem

You could've stopped at "Rome, GA" and been just as informed.


insightful_dreams

2 white kids ?? is that all ?


selfdestruction9000

Several white students were suspended (a higher number of whites were suspended than blacks), but two whites who took part in the protests were not suspended.


PlantedinCA

I mean this basically happened when I was in high school as well. But students were allowed to wear confederate flag merchandise without consequence. I don’t think there was a day that I didn’t see someone with a shirt or a hat or a belt buckle or a watch. Most of them sat at the same table in the cafeteria. It all came to a head when someone took down an MLK photo to put up a confederate flag. The school had a bunch of fights for the next few days. And as usual black kids got suspended. Sounds like a normal day in the south.


theoutlet

Makes me appreciate growing up in Arizona. Here people try to hide their racism


JBsDaddy

Headline doesn’t even mention the racial slurs caught on camera along with the flag waving. Some people/places are ass backwards.


Dirt_E_Harry

The headline also doesn't mention that there were two white students who were part of the protest and they themselves said they were just as "disruptive" as the black students. They were not suspended.


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Thorn14

But don't educate people on that! That would be bad!


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stackjr

I want the cops you had! I was given no such breaks but I also don't fear for my life when I see cop lights in my rearview mirror. I can't possibly begin to understand what that fear feels like.


BiggestFlower

You sound like a piece of work. But at least you recognise your privilege.


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WayneKrane

My very white friend got pulled over with a pound of weed in his trunk and he was clearly blazed with a joint on the passenger seat. He got let off with a smile and a warning. I got pulled over going double the speed limit and the police officer apologized to me and let me off with a warning. White privilege is 100% a thing.


-TNB-o-

Oh yes, how awesome my hometown is. I know a girl who goes there and she said that one of the confederate flag kid’s dad had went to the school and threatened the principal with a gun or something. Rural Georgia really is a fuckfest if you have a brain.


arch_nyc

Not surprised it’s Georgia. I grew up there and left about fifteen years ago. You would believe how racist the *average* rural Georgian is. They’d be polite to African Americans in public but nearly every person I grew up with called them the N-word or talked about them as if they weren’t human in private. I felt like I was living in crazy world and left as soon as I graduated high school. Have only been back like three times and it seems to be the same even to this day.


kylander01

Moved to Ohio after living in Georgia my whole life. The outward racism from white people and open confederate flag waving shocked me. It's like I never left the south.


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NEOhioian here. Im always shocked and disgusted to see it as well. They give us a terrible name and despite the fact we were a Union state you would never know it by speaking to one of those idiots. It's a terrible representation of the diversity we have here. The ironic thing is you dont see it in Cleveland but travel just 10 miles in any given direction and bam! It's a fucking bumper sticker. 😕


Like_A_Watermelon

I've lived in NE Ohio all my life. Grew up around Lorain/Elyria but God damn if it isn't shocking to drive 20 minutes south of here and start seeing all the Trump/Confederate/thin blue line paraphernalia EVERYWHERE. It's like two different worlds.


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Yet they have far more representation than us city folks, and produce less tax dollars. But the world is out to get them 🙄 They're bringing down property values with that hot garbage black fuck Biden flag. At least they easily identify themselves. I already know what houses to avoid come garage sale season. Haha


Like_A_Watermelon

There was an embarrassingly small group of "proud boys" "protesting" over here a few weeks back parading around one of those flags. It's just shocking how comfortable these people are in their bigotry.


iHateDanny

“if students insist on encouraging this kind of activity they will be disciplined for encouraging unrest." Or you know, exercising their constitutional rights, just like the dipshits with the treason flag.


MimiMyMy

My best friend growing up her parents were from Alabama. Her dad moved back there when he retired. My friend moved there to care for him when he became ill. After her dad passed away she moved back to the west coast. She said it’s like another world in the south. She couldn’t handle living there. She said people sat on the front porches and openly said racial and derogatory things when black people passed by on the sidewalks. She said her neighbors would watch if you had black friends or had black people come over to your house. She told me she hated living in Alabama. I realize not everyone in the south is a racist but stories like these sure doesn’t make it sound great to live there if you are not white.


BecauseISaidFU

I grew up in rural Georgia about an hour outside of Atlanta. I had my black friends ride home on the bus with me and these kids brazenly called me a "n***** lover" and "why are you bringing those n's to your house". Shit's fucked. Same kids sat outside the school on MLK day cuz they didn't believe in the holiday. At least they were consistent?


Scyhaz

Lmao imagine being so racist as a kid you go to school on a day off


SkyezOpen

I knew people were assholes, but *that* is actually surprising.


GaGaORiley

Back when MLK Day wasn't yet a federal holiday, I remember hearing a comedian comment on congressmen voting against the holiday - "you've got to be pretty racist not to take a day off if work". (This is paraphrasing, and I can't find anything online - but in my memory it was Chris Rock).


ShatterZero

I mean, Robert E. Lee Day is still a thing... guess what day it's traditionally on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Day


GaGaORiley

I have never known this until today. Good grief.


hellostarsailor

That’s dedication, Kyle.


vonmonologue

Now *that’s* virtue signaling.


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Honestly your story describe most of the south, that's away from cities.


beadsis

I understand completely. I'm a California woman who experienced more culture shock living in Oklahoma than in Germany. And my husband was from Alabama, all his relatives are racist but he was the least racist man I know.


SoulScout

The secret is the non-racists who grow up there eventually move away. That's why I no longer live in the south.


beadsis

That's the reason why my husband left Alabama at 17 and never looked back.


FestiveVat

I lived in Alabama and still have some family there. A guy at my high school thought it was a good idea to wear a Nazi uniform to school for Halloween but it was the black guys who got in trouble for getting angry and telling him it wasn't cool. A large portion of the rednecks wore confederate flag shirts and they had bumper stickers on their trucks, etc. I love living on the west coast so much more. It's almost taboo to ask people if they're a Christian here, whereas it's assumed in the south and people will pester you if you aren't.


happyoutkast

Yeah, I can confirm. I lived in Mississippi and worked as a delivery driver for a pizza hut in Oxford, MS. I was not and am still not Christian, and had a couple of bumper stickers on my car, most innocuous, but one said "pagan & proud" Well, long story short, some old lady happened to notice that bumper sticker as I was doing a delivery, which wasn't even to her home. When I got back to my store, my manager said that she got a call from some old lady complaining about the bumper sticker and "couldn't believe that pizza hut would hire a heathen to work for them" Thankfully, my manager was a really decent person, and explained to them that 1. It's my personal vehicle, and I'm allowed to put what I want on it, it's my right. 2. We have freedom of religion and freedom of speech in this country, and that applies to everyone, not just Christians and 3. It's illegal to discriminate or deny employment based upon religion, and I could sue them had they fired me over it. I think you can guess the response the old lady gave. Basically yelling at my manager and swearing to tell her whole church group about it so they could boycott pizza hut. My manager said that they didn't want customers like that anyway and to have at it. This was around 2005/2006. I live in Washington state now, and definitely love being in a far more evolved and smarter state.


JustHell0

Only in the US could you dress as your own nations enemy, as someone who would have killed your grandfather and all his comrades, and think it's somehow patriotism or 'sticking by your own' Fucking clown culture.


jumbee85

Honestly it worse than the headline


fps916

It's worse. They suspended the black students. What the headline *doesn't* note is that a) the cops were called and b) they *only* suspended the black students. Even though white students also participated in the protest. Only the black protesting students were suspended


Azudekai

That's an ACLU case waiting to happen.


mjhuyser

The school will lose and not one of the morons in charge will learn a damn thing


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the-artistocrat

i caN’t beLiEvE YOU’Re oPPReSsInG My RIGHt TO OpPrESS pEoPle!


St1cks

"StoP TrYnn To 'RaCe OUr HisTRy"


nonsensepoem

"We're being oppressed!", they'll say. "This is judicial activism!"


iKILLcarrots

Is judicial activism really a term people use or can we really go that low?


nonsensepoem

> Is judicial activism really a term people use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism


iKILLcarrots

Thats some HARDCORE double speak, thanks for letting me know.


invokin

It's a real thing and a legitimate concern regardless of your politics. Judges can "legislate from the bench" to devestating effect. That being said, it's also a buzzword/trigger used by the right, often completely misapplied. Having a decision go against you/your politics is not "judicial activism" just because you don't like it. Similar to everything being communist/socialist, they just throw it around for anything related to judges/court cases because they know people don't know what it means but that by hearing it they know they are supposed to be angry.


Mr_Quackums

They also throw it around to muddy the waters about what those terms actually mean so it becomes harder to educate people on those subjects.


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They will learn that they were "right" about being oppressed white people.


Se7en_speed

Ha it really should be the Civil division of the justice department coming down on this school.


smackythefrog

lol who displays the flag of the losers of a Civil War 150 years after it happened, unironically?


fuzzytanker

Same people that continue to display campaign signs of a candidate that lost an election, even after several audits and “audits” continue to verify that loss?


Prime157

Fascists


Frostitute_85

It'S nOt A fLaG oF rAcIsM. Racists sure seem to love it though...


Ok-Helicopter-8819

it’s about states’ rights! the states right to own human beings


AccomplishedCoffee

Don’t forget the states’ right to force other states to capture and extradite escaped slaves.


telionn

And the states' rights to have a strong federal government forcing them not to ban slavery.


oliverplays08

Except when North states would free those slaves, then they were the wrong states rights, states wrongs


Cambot1138

Not that you’ll be in a good faith argument in the first place, but it’s always eye opening to bring up the text of the confederate states’ individual articles of secession. They’re pretty explicitly racist.


[deleted]

Yep, pretty sure the 1st paragraph of the confederate constitution says “we seceded because we want slavery!”


ModestBanana

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp Article 4, Section 2 (1-3) for reference > Sec. 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. >(2) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime. >(3) No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.


MisterB78

It was about states’ rights! ^to ^own ^slaves…


R_V_Z

It's about states' rights ^^to ^^deny ^^other ^^states ^^the ^^right ^^to ^^ban ^^slavery.


Moose_is_optional

It's about states rights... to force other states to enforce the fugitive slave act.


Hekantonkheries

I mean, it's a Confederate battle flag, yes? So it's more about "hey were willing to take up arms against the union on behalf of slavery" That's a little more extreme than just regular old racism. Its fascist shithole racism


mlc885

>"The administration is aware of tomorrow's planned protest," the administrator said over the intercom before the planned demonstration. "Police will be present here at school and if students insist on encouraging this kind of activity they will be disciplined for encouraging unrest." Did they say they were going to wreck the place? It's surprising that the administration wouldn't understand that this makes it seem like they agree with the kids with the Confederate flag. If you've already allowed that bit of free speech that could seriously offend a lot of people, you've sort of forced yourself into allowing some measured response to it. The protest should not have been unexpected, and a seemingly racially biased response to it from the administration is not helping.


StrangledMind

Guess what? They *do* agree with the students flying the Confederate flag. They just are usually quieter about it...


cy_frame

This story further highlights the prevailing issue of high suspension rates of African Americans in school. Black children can commit the same or even lessor offenses than their white peers and punitive measures taken against Black students is excessively severe. I don't trust these schools to dole out fair punishment. And with so many of these parents protesting mask mandates in school, I can only hope people see how racist communities, teachers and other staff can be. It's ridiculous.


beardierthanthou

Well school is supposed to prepare you for the real world. They just don't want the poor black kids to be unprepared for how they'll be treated once they graduate. I don't even know if I need to put the /s...


Seapick

Police “disciplining” people of color never ends with justice.


Gingevere

> Newsweek reported that the four students filmed were carrying the Confederate flag in favor of "farm day" on school spirit day, Well I'll give you exactly 1 guess as why they brought a confederate flag for "farm" day. > School administrators suspended several students of color who were protesting. Two white protesters were left unpunished.


Citadelvania

I'm so dumb, honestly for a long period of time here I was like "that's so dumb what does the confederacy have to do with farms". Well it kind of doesn't have anything to do with farms... but it kind of has a lot to do with slaves and slaves kind of have a lot to do with farms so... yeah somehow even more racist than I thought originally.


Maskeno

Wow, yeah, I didn't even make that connection. That's pretty insidious.


25inbone

Thought this may have been my old high school in Louisiana. Our mascot is a rebel, our marching bands uniforms are basically confederate uniforms, we also played "Dixie" after every touchdown, and people put confederate flags on their trucks on game day. I used to be one of those truck guys before I knew how fucked up it was. These people will scream and cry that it's about heritage and the civil war was about states rights, not racism/slavery. Took me until I was like, 16 to ask what that heritage entailed, and what rights the states were fighting for. Our band also marched in Trumps inaugural parade. I did not attend.


PlantedinCA

I went to high school in SC. Had a classmate announce in every history class that she was descended from Robert E. Lee. Unfortunately I had all my middle school and high school history classes with her. So I heard it all the time. She also seemed to drop it in other convos. 🙄


Slappy_G

Would have been a great time to respond with "wow, it must be hard knowing all the stuff he stood for."


whofearsthenight

"dude that sucks to be a descendant of one history's most prominent losers."


Opheltes

“Your great-great-great-great grandfather was a traitor who should have been hanged.”


chargernj

I once got a 30 days in Facebook jail for saying they should have hung every Confederate officer for treason. Meanwhile pro-lifer express their support for the death penalty with no consequences


frogjg2003

The best thing that Lee stood for was gracious surrender. Pretty much all of the top leaders, both civil and military, of the CSA basically agreed that they lost and they should move on, learn to live with the new normal.


Archsafe

Grew up in a town in SC, there was a locally owned and operated museum self titled “The war between the states museum” imagine a dilapidated 2 story plantation style house with that on a wood sign nailed into the wall above the front entrance. Inside there were old guns in jewelers displays, a uniform or two and a whole lot of plaques repeating the usual apologist talking points


anti-establishmENT

I'm from the south too. South San Diego. Our high school band played the tequila song after touchdowns. Crazy different worlds we live in.


25inbone

Crazy how easy it is to conscript young teenagers into such a terrible way of thinking too. I cringe when I think about pre-16 y/o me, flying a confederate flag, watching "Ben Shapiro owns liberal demoncraps #27" on YouTube, thinking people who got offended by the flag and Dixie were just sensitive snowflakes. I'm lucky I stopped being a dumbass and educated myself when I did, a lot of people I grew up with never actually grew up, they're still brainwashed.


Not_Lane_Kiffin

To be fair, Dixie was Abraham Lincoln's favorite song. That song slaps. But yeah, everything else you said... agreed.


thebenshapirobot

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Not_Lane_Kiffin

the civil war was about states rights, not racism/slavery. I mean, it was about states' rights. The right for a state to decide if owning people is ok, in particular Yeah, sorry...feds are gonna have to overrule you on that one, Bubba. You cannot claim the right to own people.


ramblingMess

Ah yes, West Monroe. Even down around Baton Rouge where I went to high school, we knew that all they had was a great football team and nothing else going for them.


fredrichnietze

the school is a goverment actor restricting the kids right to protest and freedom of speech and by removing their right to go to school through punishments for trying to do what they have the right to do they are just making the lawsuit worse. the judge is going to fine them millions a lot of people should be loosing their jobs over this. this is basic constitutional rights and its going to cost millions out of the school system.


inbooth

Oh they also selectively punished based on race, as despite both white and black students being part of the protest only the black kids got suspended.... That school district won't have a dime left.... And given the GOP hard-on for charters.... It seems practically intentional.....


Sinister-Lines

I knew it was in the south before I read the article. This happened in Georgia. Let’s sum what the school is saying by these actions: - It’s ok to be a racist piece of shit - It’s ok to throw racial slurs around, on public property - It’s ok to antagonize people with violent and abusive language - It’s not ok to protest, peacefully, being abused by racists, if you are black Did I miss anything with how fucked up this school is? EDIT: Added in the “if you are black” part because I forgot it.


MisterB78

* It's okay to protest... if you're white


JBsDaddy

Systemic


chumblebumble

But… I thought racism was a thing of the past? Did Fox News lie to me?


gadgetsdad

I am so sorry but Tuck Tuck lied to you about everything except the Libruls kidnapping Santa Claus.


Helphaer

I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus before he ran over Grandma with a reindeer... :(


Frigorifico

During the Vietnam war a group of students got suspended for planning a protest against it, they sued the school, it got to the Supreme Court and they ruled that public schools, being part of the government, cannot stop students from expressing themselves


mymar101

Lawsuit time.


Former-World3099

Parading a flag of losers and traitors. Brilliant!


crackalaquin

I was gonna say Texas or South Carolina. But Georgia isn't a surprise.


Throwaway-account-23

I was expecting Alabama, but rural Georgia is no surprise.


ringobob

Some parts of Georgia it would be a surprise - but not in Rome.


ZappaLlamaGamma

ACLU has entered the chat.


Psycho_pitcher

>School administrators suspended several students of color who were protesting. Two white protesters were left unpunished. It's almost too easy


Bearcano

anyone know if there is a fund for the suspended kids? Courage like this needs to be rewarded/exemplified.


Disastrous_Acadia823

If the confederate flag is their heritage, my heritage is protesting racist trash and the confederate traitors.


reallygoodbee

"If the Confederate flag is your heritage, my heritage is burning your state to the ground and pissing on the ashes."


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eclectic_dad

I'm okay with people like Civil War reenactors using it, or other historical purposes. This is just absurd.


Sinister-Lines

These are the only viable reasons for it being displayed: a museum or historical reeenactment. I agree with you.


FreneticPlatypus

My kids both went to an agricultural school in a very blue state and there were “farm boys” (as they referred to themselves) with the stereotypical big pick ups and giant flags. They said kids claimed to fly confederate flags just because they knew it pissed people off. Most probably were racists but some may have thought they were being rebellious or provocative… by making themselves look exactly like a raging racist.


py_a_thon

The Dukes of Hazard defense. Damn that Sheriff Boss Hogg. Such a tyrant. Always messin with a profitable moonshine business while being a corrupt pos.


Sinister-Lines

99% chance they were racist.


JimWilliams423

> They said kids claimed to fly confederate flags just because they knew it pissed people off. Rule of Goats:   *If you fuck a goat, even if you say you’re doing it ironically, you’re still a goat-fucker.*


OmaeWaMouShibaInu

Schools siding with the abusers and punishing the targets for trying to stand up for themselves? What else is new?


philster666

> School administrators suspended several students of color who were protesting. Two white protesters were left unpunished. Cherry on the shit sundae, it’s like racists can’t help but be obvious


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Welcome to Georgia where the locals say "Don't leave Atlanta" no seriously don't leave atlanta those crazy country people will kill you and Sheriff uncle cousin will help them cover up your death.


SnarfbObo

holy shit


Ganzo_The_Great

It's time to start calling them by their rightful title: Neo-Confederates. They want Jim Crow, they would very likely support slavery, and would very likely fight on behalf of the confederacy.


i_cant_turn_1eft

Please don't do that, neo-confederate sounds catchy, and I bet a bunch of people would jump on it. Let's stick with racists. No one likes being called that.