NY Student Suspended For Displaying Confederate Flag

[Petedtom]

NY students suspended indefinitely for displaying Confederate flag

Published April 17, 2014 FoxNews.com


FILE: Jan. 9, 2008: A Confederate flag waves over the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia.Reuters



Two Long Island high school students have been suspended indefinitely for allegedly bringing a Confederate flag to a sporting event.
Brother Gary Cregan, the principal at St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, told WCBS-TV the boys walked into the after-hours sporting event with the flag draped around their shoulders.



"The African-American students who immediately saw it really exercised heroic restraint and fortunately a teacher immediately confiscated the flag and took the students out of the gym,” Cregan said.

The two seniors were initially suspended for 10 days, but Cregan decided Tuesday they won’t be allowed back, the station reported.
Cregan wrote a letter to their parents, telling them that the use of symbols “designed to revive past injustices or to inflame discrimination or racial intolerance, is completely unacceptable and profoundly offensive," Newsday reported.

“I find it just very hard to even imagine why any student in 2014 would even consider or think that a Confederate flag would be anything other than a symbol of hate,” Cregan told WCBS-TV.

While St. Anthony’s is a private Catholic school and generally not subject to First Amendment limitations, a New York Civil Liberties Union official said students be able to openly express their views, even those considered offensive.

“Our motto is more speech, not censorship or punishment,” NYCLU director Donna Lieberman told Brown told the station. “Helping children understand the impact of this patently offensive expressive activity.”
Cregan said there are limits to students' free speech rights.

“I certainly think this particular symbol of hate falls in the category of something that should be excised from our culture,” he said.
The students involved did not respond to WCBS-TV's requests for comment

[Petedtom]

Talk about a hit job on the stars and bars.

Notice how it is the "symbol of hate" rather than a part of history.

Now did these 2 just do it to get a rise? Could be. But that is what the 1st is about.

Once again we see the wrong side won.

[LizardKing]

Once again we see the wrong side won.

They always do.
It doesn't take much to get someone railroaded by the politically correct
storm troopers.
If I was one of the students I'd raise hell over this!

[naegling62]

http://freeflorida.org/
http://southernnationalist.com/blog/
http://dixienet.org/


We are growing.

[Chaplain Chuck]

I suppose the First Amendment has been repealed then?
I guess I'll have to keep my CSA flag in my duffle bag and continue flying my Pirate flag instead

[naegling62]

NY students suspended indefinitely for displaying Confederate flag

Published April 17, 2014 FoxNews.com


FILE: Jan. 9, 2008: A Confederate flag waves over the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia.Reuters



Two Long Island high school students have been suspended indefinitely for allegedly bringing a Confederate flag to a sporting event.
Brother Gary Cregan, the principal at St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, told WCBS-TV the boys walked into the after-hours sporting event with the flag draped around their shoulders.



"The African-American students who immediately saw it really exercised heroic restraint and fortunately a teacher immediately confiscated the flag and took the students out of the gym,” Cregan said.

The two seniors were initially suspended for 10 days, but Cregan decided Tuesday they won’t be allowed back, the station reported.
Cregan wrote a letter to their parents, telling them that the use of symbols “designed to revive past injustices or to inflame discrimination or racial intolerance, is completely unacceptable and profoundly offensive," Newsday reported.

“I find it just very hard to even imagine why any student in 2014 would even consider or think that a Confederate flag would be anything other than a symbol of hate,” Cregan told WCBS-TV.

While St. Anthony’s is a private Catholic school and generally not subject to First Amendment limitations, a New York Civil Liberties Union official said students be able to openly express their views, even those considered offensive.

“Our motto is more speech, not censorship or punishment,” NYCLU director Donna Lieberman told Brown told the station. “Helping children understand the impact of this patently offensive expressive activity.”
Cregan said there are limits to students' free speech rights.

“I certainly think this particular symbol of hate falls in the category of something that should be excised from our culture,” he said.
The students involved did not respond to WCBS-TV's requests for comment

So, they showed "heroic restraint". Well then that would indicate they wanted to engage in violence on the part of "Old Glory". It seems The flag of the U.S.A. stands for violence and oppression of free speech.

[sacajawea]

Interesting that this post is just above the one about Carney displaying communist posters in his home...

So - it's just SOME things that are "symbols of hate" - depending on the phase of the moon, how tight someone's undies are, and "I know it when I see it"...

Right?

I just kinda would like to know what this week's "rules" are.

[Little RedRidingHood]

I suppose the First Amendment has been repealed then?
I guess I'll have to keep my CSA flag in my duffle bag and continue flying my Pirate flag instead

My pirate flag flies while the other is in a nice SAFE place!

Nice to know someone else has the same two flags!

[chicom]

This is a shirt from the year they tried to burn old Dixie down.