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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts) Thu Mar 24, 2016, 01:56 PM Mar 2016

Confederate flag debate taken up at Southern Huntingdon County High School (PA)

BY SARA SMALL
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23RD 2016

... "We're here to make sure none of our students are intimidated to come to school or fear coming to school, being bullied or harassed," says Superintendent Mike Zinobile. "I'm just asking the community to support the decisions made by the administration" ...

"Of course people can represent how they want to out there but when my kids come to school, I want to know that they're safe and protected," says concerned mother, Donna Barney.

... Zinobile ... says a few weeks ago two students made a noose on a school bus followed by saying two minority students should "be hung." Zinobile then explained that one of those students who made the noose came to school with the flag on his truck ...

Administration decided to not allow students to fly the flag on their cars or wear it to school ...

http://wjactv.com/news/local/confederate-flag-debate-taken-up-at-southern-huntingdon-county-high-school

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Confederate flag debate taken up at Southern Huntingdon County High School (PA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP

Well, it is southern Huntingdon County, after all KamaAina Mar 2016 #1

Yeah, there is that ... struggle4progress Mar 2016 #2

I was making a play on "southern" KamaAina Mar 2016 #3

I assumed you were referring to the well-known KKK history of Huntingdon county struggle4progress Mar 2016 #4

Well known in PA, maybe KamaAina Mar 2016 #5

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. Well, it is southern Huntingdon County, after all

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:13 PM

Mar 2016

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)

2. Yeah, there is that ...

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:44 PM

Mar 2016

1924 KKK rally in Huntingdon Pa. Ad

... Richard Fogel, grand dragon of the state Klan, asserted in an interview that there were "a minimum of 300 members" active in 60 of the state's 67 counties ... Fogel, 27, who lives in York and organized his first Klan unit while in high school in Huntingdon County in 1978, has been grand dragon for two years. He said he had worked "painstakingly to build a base" before he began more public Klan activities late in 1986 ...
In Pa., An Increase In Klan Activity
By Murray Dubin, Inquirer Staff Writer
POSTED: November 06, 1988

October 2, 1994, Pennsylvania: Ku Klux Klan member Romie Young is arrested for plotting to blow up a dam near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Anti-Government Extremist Criminal Activity for the Year 1994

HUNTINGDON, HUNTINGDON COUNTY - Pennsylvania's Grand Dragon reacts to a former Kansas Klan leader killing three people at a Jewish Community Center ... John, the Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan says the Klan would not do that ... Harriett Gaston ... a minority programs counselor at Penn State Altoona ... says it is hard to separate the history of the KKK from the current group ...
Grand Dragon Speaks
By Ben Manning | bmanning@wtajtv.com
Published 04/14 2014 10:42PMUpdated 04/14 2014 11:44PM

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. I was making a play on "southern"

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:47 PM

Mar 2016

because we all know that all those evul racist Klansmen are in the South.

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)

4. I assumed you were referring to the well-known KKK history of Huntingdon county

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:55 PM

Mar 2016

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. Well known in PA, maybe

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:57 PM

Mar 2016

There has been lots of Klan activity outside the South over the years. They damn near ran Indiana in the 1920s! And Anaheim, scene of a recent Klan rally, has a long Klan history, outlined at the beginning of Fast Food nation.

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