Court bans Confederate flag in schools

p.s. the headline is misleading.. it is only one school, not schoolssss

More than I'd like to admit that this is a symbol of free speech because it is making a statement (unlike laws that make you keep a stereo at a specified level because you aren't making a statement besides i'm a rebel teenager) is that if any statement, whether it is the confederate flag, cross burning, shirts with guns on them, that disrupts the school setting as this has, deserves some sort of probation from the setting.

how is that so hard to understand. this isn't about the flag, its about the education of the students at the individual tennessee school.

Haha.. let them wear it so they can get beat down for it!

..It could help you figure out who's racist or not and who to stay away from. So why ban it?

I never got the defense of "We're honoring our heritage!"

It's like they're proud of being the hate mongering, backwards, losers of the Civil War.

The Confederate flag is offensive to many people. The Ku Klux Klan carries it with them to all their rallies and so forth. It just causes problems to wear a symbol that is known as something hateful.

Nothing postive will come from this type of censorship. Racial tensions didn't come from someone wearing a confederate flag shirt. The racial tensions were already there. If this does anything it sends a message to white southern students that their history is insulting and illegal. The only thing the court did was pour gas on the fire. I hate seeing that flag probably more then alot of people but we are inching closer and closer to thought police regulations.

regjoeschmo I am so sorry for your loss
it's sad when stuff like that happen
but no one cares.

Just a bunch of morons making the flag issue something it isnt. These idiots made it a racial aspect, though the flag was never meant to be that. Our first written law as a nation was the Articles of the Confederation. The south fought for their rights to make laws as states, which these articles say should happen. Racism got dragged into the civil war even though both sides used freedom as a rouse to get poor black men on the front lines. My best friend was murdered because someone he was with had a shirt with said flag on it. He wasnt racist one bit, but the people responsible got away with it due to the flag being cited as a reason. Our country needs to grow up, its been over a generation since the civil rights movement and were have we really gone from there??

I agree with you seeker, but when the flag appears with racial slurs and a noose... the flag isn't symbolizing southern pride.

"bong hits for Jesus"

This court case has nothing to do with the damn confederate flag. It is about a public school's right to impose limits on appearance and speech in the name of order and disipline. Courts have given schools wide latitude in this area and also have had little hesitation in limiting the rights of minors.

I'm all for people wearing the confederate flag if they want. It just makes identifying bigotry all that much easier.

If you wanna fly the Confederate flag i guess that's your prerogative. i just don't see why you can't fly the flag of the United States instead. I've also wondered why people in New Jersey fly the flag so much, it strikes me as odd.

that makes a good point what the difference between the confederate flag and the Nazi flag they both represent racism honestly

The original use of the swastika was a Tibetan symbol that could be connected and continued infinitely. It was basically a good luck charm until the Nazis used it as their symbol. Unfortunately people associate the swastika with Nazis and the evil that they did. And I think that is sad, why couldn't the Nazis have created their own symbol from scratch rather than ruining a Tibetan symbol for good luck?

well. we are divided arent we? in the south the confederate flag is commonly revered by white people. while i lived down there i did not meet one person of any other race that thought it anything but a symbol of rebellion and hate. here out west it was commonly associated with the skinhead movement that did not last long thank god. yeah they all have long hair and are in hiding now thanks to sharps and they better stay there if they know whats good for em. it comes to this; that flag is tolerated where racisim is still tolerated, but in places like portland or, where racisim is hated, the confederate flag may as well be a swastika. oh, swastika, thats just a symbol thats been misused too, right? please, its evil and you know it.

US politics fans take note. There was time, Pre-Reagan, when Democrats held ground in the South and the North was mostly Republican.
What a topsy-turvy country, eh?

the statehouse in Columbia SC ( the capitol city ) used to fly the Confederate flag on it's dome pole . the NAACP raised hell a few years back and demanded the confederate flag be taken off the pole - and it was done . now the confederate flag has it's own monument , dedicated to the civil war dead , erected on the ground just in front of Main St. , where it's even more visible . the NAACP got the flag off the top of the statehouse , where it was hardly visible , and now it's unavoidable - anyone passing by on Main st. can't avoid seeing it - and it's a big flag - bigger than a battle flag .
now the NAACP wants that one taken down also .
did i hear an appeals court in Ohio ruled that wearing the flag could be reasonably expected to disrupt education in Tn. ?
F Ohio . i'd stage a march in Cincinnati bussing in as many flag waving peeps as i could to cause a riot . i'm not opposed to any flag being displayed , in any form , anywhere and at any time .
i don't own a confederate flag - but i'd buy one to just to march on Ohio with it .

Slavery was dying
and not many people know this but Blacks did fight for the Confederacy, and yes the north won and who writes most of the History? the ones who win.
Read a book called "the south was right" its a great book showing how the confederate nation was growing.
And yes they lost, but it's now a symbol of History and whats wrong with that?

Anyone who respects the Confederate flag should quietly retire it to their home. It is a very Honorable flag that has been highjacked by racist from both sides. The Confederacy stood for States Rights, with a weak Federal Government. Slavery was becoming a burden, both economicaly and morally, on the South. Slavery was Wrong and the separation can still be seen today. No one hates the American flag and it stood for slavery 100 years before the "rebellion". Robert E. Lee was the man.

To me the idea of a united US is a relative failure. Many smaller nations have survived longer because they weren't big multi-everything nations. The Roman Empire and Soviet Union both fell.

Why is it important to people still? The south lost... right???? aaaaannndd..... how long ago was that again?

I don't know what to say about this, but when I see the flag I just think its kind of disrespectful to the real American flag. Taking the history of the flag and the civil war where people fought to establish the US again. The flag just shows how we are still divided as a country. The confederate flag doesn't show unity to me. It might be a symbol of hope and heritage to the south, but to me it is a symbol of segregation and isolation because it doesn't show America's north, south, east, and west under one beacon of light. I don't want to be the one to put race in it, so I am taking a different approach.

When I was in high school, a friend of mine got HAULED IN THE PRINCIPAL'S office for having a "The Chinkees" (an all-asian, god awful 1990's pop-punk/ska band) sticker on his car, while there were many many hicks with rebel flags on their cars and clothes and that was ok.

The Confederates actually banned the slave trade in their constitution...plus, no doubt if they survived as a nation, they'd eventually ban slavery anyways, since there were abolitionists in that area...

Wow. Talk about a backyard story.
I live in Tennessee and, while at my city's annual Fourth Of July Parade, I saw rows and rows of Confederate Flags on vans, trucks, buses, cars, sticking out of store windows, being waved by folks in and out of the event and, the image that will stay with me all my days, strapped on the back of a baby buggy.
There were no incidents of violence.
My conclusion? It ain't the flag.
It's what some folks chose to associate with it.

Should we now be policing people's thoughts?The thought police coming to a city near you.

While I understand the free speech claim, I agree with the ruling. Yes, students should be able to demonstrate their opinions, but they also have the right to safety, and fights endanger more people than those who started it.

Uniforms should be standard in all public schools.

What about DUKES OF HAZARD t-shirts?

I wave my confederate flag, how am I racist
I was raised in the south.
it's history
tell you what then
NO star of davids for jews because the zelots revolted against rome.

No Pink triangle for gays because it was made up by nazis.. every symbols has a history for something bad.

staces , a cross necklace is controversial , since when ?
And so what if some people get offended .
Where in the Constitution does it say we have the right not to be offended?

I think they oughta let them wear the symbol if they want to. It just makes it easier for us to spot the racist idiots in order to avoid them. I mean, c'mon, you'd have to be an idiot to wear that shit and think people aren't going to be offended. Especially in the south.
Kind of like wearing a cross necklace. I sure as hell ain't going to tell you that you can't wear it, but you are displaying a characteristic about yourself that, you know as well as everyone, is highly controversial.
You have to acknowledge that.

but if they get hurt thats another form of hate
they can believe what ever they want
but when action is taken thats when it's gone too far.

and the rebel flag is NOT racist just some racist use it
the real meaning is about freedom

I don't like what many people have to say, but I fully support their right to say it.While I hate that flag and believe that it is frequently used to present ideas of racism, this ban clearly hampers the right to free speech. If the kids get their asses beat all the better!