Ohio tea party member flies Confederate flag during racist rant at school board meeting
Source: Raw Story
Springboro, Ohio residents are up in arms after a member of the local tea party unfurled a Confederate flag at a meeting of the town’s school board Thursday. According to Huffington Post, Sonny Thomas, who bills himself as the president and founder of the Springboro Tea Party was protesting the removal of a set of religiously-themed and ideologically slanted classes from the district’s summer curriculum.
Thomas, who has a history of racist and inflammatory statements, reportedly gave an impassioned defense of the classes, which were intended for parents and children. The summer courses were sponsored by the Institute of the Constitution, an offshoot group from right-wing think tank The American View and the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a religious-themed nationalist group funded by the Church of Latter Day Saints.
In his speech, Thomas made racist remarks, invoked neo-Confederate group The League of the South and displayed the Confederate flag, saying that African-Americans in the U.S. “should consider themselves lucky since they are treated better in the United States than they would be if they were in ‘Black Countries’ with ‘genocide,’” according to Springboro resident Nimisha Patel.
Patel also noted the school board members showed unusual deference to Thomas, allowing his remarks to run over his allotted time slot. They also allowed him to stay for the rest of the meeting, whereas other speakers who the board deemed problematic were escorted from the premises.
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Oops, Ohio, my bad! 
The south does not have exclusive rights to racism, although some would have you believe otherwise. 
During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_in_the_American_Civil_War
Confederate revisionists wanted to show the murdering SOB "proper respect as a hero of the Confederacy".
Evidently, one of Quantrill's OH buddies (who helped Quantrill's mother dig up his remains in KY to be buried in OH) was an enterprising sort and sold various parts to collectors. This ticked off the old Confederates who thought he wouldn't be rendered the "respect he was due" in Yankee states.
Tens of thousands of runaway slaves escaped to Canada thru Ohio.
Sorry, had to chime in to defend my state. 
We have our share of racists and loonies, but there are some amazing liberals and progressives here as well. We have Boehner, but we also have Brown.
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The Springboro Tea Party FB page. They're gonna need a better slogan.
Where "Li 'Boro-Tea" is Brewing! 
It's bad enough when Southerners get all nostalgi about the good ole days of slavery they never lived through in the first place (e.g., Lady Antebellum), but Ohio?
Not trying to flame you, just gets my feathers ruffled when I see assholes like him. Then I see comments on this board about southerners. BTW, I lived in Bean town for awhile before the big dig. Haymarket square on saturdays, Faneuil Hall and the north end were my favorite places to be. Can you tell I like to eat.
that Confederate Flag because it represents the Cause the South fought for. He then claims that African Americans were treated better and should be glad they weren't still in Africa because supposedly slavery was good for them.
These people still insinuate the Confederate Flag represents their heritage and the United States. What it did represent was treason. They lost that war against the United States of America. The only reason they were accepted back into this country, was they had to accept the 13th Amendment and the abolishment of Slavery. Until then, they were a defeated people or region under occupation by Union Forces. Their economy was also destroyed in that War. Many of their leaders also lost their rights as U.S. citizens. Robert E. Lee didn't get his citizenship reinstated until long after his Death, so he died as a man without a country.
As far as concerning the state of African Americans, Before the Civil War ended, there were 200,000 African Americans in the Union Army which represented ten percent of Union Forces which gave the U.S. the man power to win that War.
It wasn't until the South was facing defeat, that Robert E. Lee argued for giving Blacks freedom if they could help the South, because white males were either killed or desserted. At least 60,000 of them desserted Lee's Army. Among the 125,000 Union troops seiging Petersburg and during the fall of Richmond were Black units. Among the first troops to enter Petersburg were Black units. The unit that escorted Lincoln's visit to Richmond, was a Black calvary unit. There were also Black units that parcipated in the chase of Lee's final efforts to break out of the approaching surrounding Union Armies.
There was no way the South could equal the manpower of the North after the Emancipation Proclamation and the recruitment of Black soldiers. What I'm saying is Black Americans helped the Northern cause in saving the Union. They also spied for the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation angered the South. When the South moved to recruit Blacks to save their Cause, it furthur destroyed the myth of White Supremacy. A Georgian Politician stated exactly that.
African Americans have nothing to be ashamed of when they hear white supremacists speak, because their ancestors helped build this country into what it is today. They were there when America pushed further out West too. They used these same African American soldiers to protect whites against Indians. I'm pretty sure people have heard of the Buffalo soldiers by now. They took a lot of heat from white supremacists they protected too when they could have just let the Indians massacre them. I know it is very hard for some white people to tell their fellow Southern white Americans, but they need to hear the Truth even though it will break their little hearts. The Confederate Flag represents a time of Treason, rebellion, and rejection of the United States as a country. The only thing it is good for is a Museum and for History. To try and discredit African Americans as less worthy than some whites, is just plain dumb. Like General Sherman said, White Southerners can't get their slaves back just like their dead grandfathers, because slavery is dead, dead, dead! And they hated Sherman. War is hell.
Is he a secessionist? Don't know, do you! Is he a racists, yes one that lives in Ohio. How much simpler did you need it to be? 
How can anyone argue with that kind of logic? Brilliant, you mean you assume, and you know what they say about assume. 
OK, just for that . . . You win the thread!
Her husband, Thomas Kohls works for Bill DeLord Auto Center in Lebanon. He expects his income to be lower this year because the dealership no longer sells Cadillac and Pontiac and because the government’s Cash for Clunkers program has expired.
I bet that they were calling "Cash for Clunkers" part of Obama's evil socialist plan while he was cashing his paychecks. 
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