Comments on: No Flag Freedom http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/22/no-flag-freedom/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:59:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Kerwin http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/12/22/no-flag-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-60444 Kerwin Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:33:58 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/12/22/no-flag-freedom/#comment-60444 “A civil rights group is challenging an Eastern Kentucky high school’s use of the Confederate emblem as its school flag, saying the symbol is hurtful to black students at other schools." It is a symbol and therefore it is up to those putting it up to say what it represents and not for the Civil Rights group. I will concede this to the Civil Rights group and that is this would be a public contract of a sort and so unless those putting up the flag make their point clear then the general publics viewpoint would hold dominate. The general public includes more than Blacks or the Civil Rights group. The Civil Rights group needs to present reliable evidence that show the general public of that area believes the Confederate emblem supports racist views. The high school can head that off by making the reason why they believe otherwise public in such a manner that the emblem and the reason are viewed together. “A civil rights group is challenging an Eastern Kentucky high school’s use of the Confederate emblem as its school flag, saying the symbol is hurtful to black students at other schools.”

It is a symbol and therefore it is up to those putting it up to say what it represents and not for the Civil Rights group. I will concede this to the Civil Rights group and that is this would be a public contract of a sort and so unless those putting up the flag make their point clear then the general publics viewpoint would hold dominate. The general public includes more than Blacks or the Civil Rights group. The Civil Rights group needs to present reliable evidence that show the general public of that area believes the Confederate emblem supports racist views. The high school can head that off by making the reason why they believe otherwise public in such a manner that the emblem and the reason are viewed together.

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