Rebels
In my hometown, there has been much discussion about the local high school banning the Confederate Flag at events. Actually, they’ve banned all flags and symbols. The Confederate flag has been a tradition for a while since they’re known as the Rebels. I’ve heard they got the name Rebels because there was a time when football wasn’t allowed and they kept the team anyway.
Tonight at the school board meeting, they’ll discuss the ban. Apparently a large group of folks plan on being there to tell the school board exactly how stupid this is.
July 26th, 2005 at 9:28 am
I think this is ridiculous. My question is this, are we going to do away with the American flag for what we did to the Indians? I can guarantee you that there are kids that think that the Civil War was started because of slavery… The tariffs on goods at fort Sumter had nothing to do with it. Who in the world ever conceived that the Rebel flag was based on racism? During the beginning of the civil war there were slave owners in the North as well as the South and the flag did not represent slavery then, and it certainly doesn’t now. I am just waiting for the school systems to ban Apple Pie! This represents Americans and their traditions so let’s toss it all out. This is the most ridiculous waste of time and effort I have seen since the Patriot act…
July 26th, 2005 at 10:25 am
I say ban away. Schools are supposed to teach our kids actual, real history, not feel-good, pan-southern, NASCAR Nation mythology. If anything, they should have a half-time ritual at football games where people waving confederate flags get symbolically run out of town by federal sympathizers.
July 26th, 2005 at 10:28 am
Yeah, to hell with freedom of expression and speech on government property.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
hyperbole (/hiperbli/)noun. Deliberate exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally.
I’m not actually saying the school should stop them from delusionally waving around their rebel flags to “honor” a made-up past. If the kids, and their parents, want to continue to be ignorant yahoos, I guess that’s their own business.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
heh. Remind me to install hyberbole tags, along with sarcasm tags 🙂
July 26th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
Still, though. I’d be tempted to do it if I had the power to do so, if only to drive those people crazy. Southern Maryland was way more confederate then Blount County, but unlike Maryville, nobody there’s dumb enough to suggest that Charles County High rename themselves the Rebels.
July 26th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
I say ban away. Schools are supposed to teach our kids actual, real history, not feel-good, pan-southern, NASCAR Nation mythology.
Thats a well thought out argument…
July 26th, 2005 at 7:49 pm
I’m not actually saying the school should stop them from delusionally waving around their rebel flags to “honor” a made-up past. If the kids, and their parents, want to continue to be ignorant yahoos, I guess that’s their own business.
yet another well thought out argument…