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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts) Fri Sep 4, 2015, 05:30 PM Sep 2015

Confederate flags taken down at Augusta High School (KS)

By Craig Andres
Published: September 4, 2015, 3:47 pm
Updated: September 4, 2015, 4:04 pm

Augusta, Ks. – Confederate flags were flying at Augusta High school in the parking lot on Friday.

School leaders asked the students to take the flags off their trucks. The kids complied with school leaders.

“But to be a minority in this town with that kind of intimidation, even though it’s just a symbol, it’s still a symbol of intimidation,” says Amber, a parent in Augusta. “It’s a symbol of hate it’s a symbol of bigotry” ...

“I don’t think they (the school) should be able to tell them to take them down,” says Deanna, an Augusta parent. “It’s part of our history” ...
http://ksn.com/2015/09/04/confederate-flags-taken-down-at-augusta-high-school/

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Confederate flags taken down at Augusta High School (KS) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

What in the fuck are confederate fucking flags doing on KIDS cars in KANSAS? randys1 Sep 2015 #1

I have family there TlalocW Sep 2015 #3

In Bleeding Kansas? MuseRider Sep 2015 #2

Uh, Kansas is called The Free State for a reason. The confederate flag is on the losing side of Kansas Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #4

A star for Kansas too! struggle4progress Sep 2015 #5

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. What in the fuck are confederate fucking flags doing on KIDS cars in KANSAS?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 05:33 PM

Sep 2015

TlalocW

(15,389 posts)

3. I have family there

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 05:43 PM

Sep 2015

I'm originally from nearby Clearwater, KS, (an even smaller town), and my mom lived there until her passing, and one of my sisters and her family live in the country, and her daughter and her family live there as well. They're all pretty conservative. It's a small farming community, more trucks than cars in the high school parking lot. There's probably some racial sentiment attached to the flag with some kids, but more than likely, most of them are not aware enough to look at as anything more than, "Mah favrit country singer's a rebel, and he's got this on his hat/pickup/belt buckle, tattooed on his arm/dog/kids. I wanna be a rebel too!"

TlalocW

MuseRider

(34,118 posts)

2. In Bleeding Kansas?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 05:41 PM

Sep 2015

I do see them now and again but not a lot.

Teabaggers, this state is full of them and they probably think we were with the South in that fight. History is not exactly their forte.

Pretty rural area, figures. Good for the school leaders. I hope they are ready for the crap coming their way.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

4. Uh, Kansas is called The Free State for a reason. The confederate flag is on the losing side of Kansas

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 05:47 PM

Sep 2015

history. Or did brownback rewrite that Kansas history already?

"I don’t think they (the school) should be able to tell them to take them down,” says Deanna, an Augusta parent. “It’s part of our history” ...