A pair of 16-year-old students in Maple Valley, Washington got some time
off for bad behavior in the form of a suspension from school last week
for wearing Confederate flags to school in an apparent statement against
LGBT Pride Month; KIRO TV reports.
The suspended teens claim their decision to wear the "stars and bars" to
school was a response to a classmate who wore a rainbow flag to school
in honor of LGBT History Month. The boys wore the flags in common areas
around several students who got upset. A woman picking up her nephew at
school saw the flags as a symbol of slavery and racism and commented, "I
can see where we wouldn’t OK that -- there’s too many ethnic
backgrounds that that could offend,"
"If he can wear his flag in support of what he believes, we figured we
could do that as well," said one of the suspended students, who only
gave the name "Grady" in an interview with KOMO News further
stating "We put ours around our necks and kind of walked around with
them, [..] It’s just a way of showing our southern pride, nothing racist
at all." Full story here!
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