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By Cole Waterman cwaterma@mlive.com
AUBURN, MI ... About six vehicles bearing the Confederate flag, the Gadsden flag, and the American flag parked along Bryant Boulevard, adjacent to the school at 500 W. Midland Road in Auburn, the morning of Tuesday, April 17. At least one truck had the Confederate flag emblazoned across its tailgate.
Kendall Frost, a 17-year-old junior at Western who is black, said fellow students had announced on social media in the preceding days their intent to "fly the flag on Monday" with pictures of the Confederate flag. Seemingly due to classes being canceled for a snow day on Monday, the display was moved to Tuesday.
In addition, some students told Kendall and other black classmates they "shouldn't go to Western because of our skin tone," she said ...
"The issue is they're not actually doing it on school property, so we're really limited in what we're able to do," <Superintendent> Bigelow said. "What we have to look at, though, is at what point does it become completely disruptive to the education environment within the school" ...
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2018/04/trucks_park_outside_bay_city_w.html
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,575 posts)lived in Michigan until I moved away. Un frickin' believable............
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)are from the Deep South is a total myth. They are literally everywhere in the country. Uneducated, simple, and scared.
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)High school. I never met so many rednecks being from San Francisco. I am very light skinned and was scared going into the local stores because of the looks Id get. I met some of the stupidest people I have ever in my life. My uncle was a Chicago Police commissioner who was a weekend farmer. The rednecks left him alone because of who he was. But the black week day caretaker did not go outside after dark. My grandparents had a mobile home on his property, they stayed at to avoid the hot Chicago summers. I remember calling my parents and begging them to send me home because I was so scared. After coming back to SF I decided I was going to college and was not going to be stupid like the people I met there. It was life changing event for me and I got to see outright racism upfront in the 70s.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Michigan was not only a Northern State, but raised a number of units to FIGHT the Confederacy and treason?
I might still have a little bit of sympathy for southern White boys whose ancestors fought for the Confederacy, despite the fact that their cause was wrong, but I have NO sympathy for Northern p*ck*rheads waving the Confederate battle flag. They should be ashamed. They should know better.
The CS battle flag has become a symbol for racism.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Id have thought that the dipsticks in question might have had an ancestor or two who fought in Mr. Lincolns army. Of course, theres the possibility that these guys forebears crossed the ocean generations after someone elses ancestors did the fighting and bleeding in Virginia, Tennessee, or Vicksburg.