Updated: Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 5:05 PM EST
Published : Friday, 12 Nov 2010, 5:05 PM EST
SACRAMENTO - A boy in California is now allowed to ride to school with an American flag. Earlier this week, a middle school told 13-year-old Cody Alicea to take the flag off his bike.
He was carrying the flag to honor veterans, like his own grandfather. He had been riding his bike with the flag for about two months.
Libs, likely, but that's not the problem. Idiots, yes. Instead of addressing the true problem - the kids complaining, they instead took it out on the boy - a very poor choice of how to handle the situation.
School officials worried students would come to school with flags from other countries, sparking racial tension and possible violence.
They now say they decided to focus on those students who are causing the problem, not the flag.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Science Chic wrote: Libs, likely, but that's not the problem. Idiots, yes. Instead of addressing the true problem - the kids complaining, they instead took it out on the boy - a very poor choice of how to handle the situation.
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Yes their reaction is the problem, but their reaction is driven by their bias. Their bias is a reflection of what I think it is fair to characterize as hate America first.
If this is not a total right wing distortion it is very telling.
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"In my thirty years as a professor in upper education, I have never witnessed nor participated in a more extremist, agenda-driven, revisionist conference, nearly devoid of rhetorical balance and historical context for the arguments presented. "
