The Confederate flag flew high Wednesday outside the South Carolina Statehouse, but a large drape kept mourners from seeing it as they filed past the open casket of a veteran black lawmaker and pastor.
Reports that a Hamilton high school student was suspended for displaying a Confederate flag on his pickup truck are being disputed by the district's superintendent.
You expect to see them on the backs of pick-up trucks or flying at country music concerts.
Confederate flags.
And then the prejudging starts to go through your mind.
Does this flag represent someone who hates blacks, maybe other ethnicities, is a beer-swilling pot bellied “cafone” who speaks in a heavy Southern drawl and lives in a trailer park...
Today on the Dennis and Judi show we discussed the East Windsor girl (Torri Albrecht) allegedly suspended from Kreps Middle School for wearing a hoodie with the Confederate flag on it. The girls mother, Jane West got wind of the discussion and called the show.
The mother of a New Jersey middle school student says her daughter was wrongly suspended for a day after showing up at school in a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag.