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Texas HS sued over Confederate Flag Ban

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There is a reason why we need to work "traditional, cultural and heritage" into the wording affecting airboats as there are many laws protecting such activities as defined above and rest assured, they will be used here in this case.
The SLRC has won more than one of these suits against a school district. It's a sorry state of affairs when we must sue for our rights................expect more of these fights. It's the future; however they can be won. Wouldn't it be nice to have a knowledgeable legal team to sue on behalf of airboat issues?

"Send lawyers, guns & money"......

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The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) http://www.slrc-csa.org/

News Release

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 7, 2007

BURLESON SCHOOL BOARD SUED
OVER BAN ON CONFEDERATE FLAGS

FORT WORTH, TX - Attorneys for the Southern Legal Resource Center are suing Burleson, TX, school officials over a ban on Confederate symbols that resulted in two students being punished for displaying them.

The suit will be filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Fort Worth. A media conference will be held at the courthouse at 1 p.m. following the filing. SLRC Chief Trial Counsel Kirk D. Lyons, a member of the Texas State Bar, is representing the students and their families.

The plaintiffs, two female students at Burleson High School, received purses bearing Confederate flag images as Christmas presents and brought them to school in January, 2006. The suit alleges that school officials attempted to confiscate the purses and sent the girls home when they declined to hand the purses over. Both girls had previously worn Confederate-themed items to school without incident.

The girls' parents went through a lengthy appeals process, attempting to have the school board lift the ban and remove the disciplinary action from the girls' records. The school board rejected all appeals on grounds that the Confederate symbol was "racist" and "disruptive" and therefore in violation of the school district's student dress code.

The suit alleges that the school board is selective in its application of the dress code, singling out the Confederate flag for exclusion while permitting students to wear other controversial symbols including the swastika. The complaint, which asks for a jury trial, claims violation of the students' rights to free speech, due process of law and equal protection under law.

The SLRC is a nonprofit organization that coordinates legal assistance in civil rights cases involving Southern heritage and culture. In 2006 the SLRC settled a case out of court on behalf of its client Jacqueline Duty, a Kentucky student who was barred from her senior prom for wearing a, evening dress patterned after the Confederate flag. That case in turn was based on a 2004 SLRC victory, Castorina v. Madison County Schools, in which an appellate court struck down a school board's ban on Confederate symbols.


For additional information, contact:
Roger McCredie (828) 669-51891. exec@slrc-csa.org

2. Kirk D. Lyons (828) 712-2115 slrc@slrc-csa.org
 
Good for them girls to have someone such as the SLRC backing them :cheers:

Way past time to put an end to the hate on our flag!

Basketcase
 
It's about time I am so tired of southern heratage being picked on if people would just learn there history the way it really is all this Southern bashing would stop
 
Sniper,

The bashing won't stop, even with education. The folks who bash Southern Heritage usually are the same folks who bash Hunting, Second Amendment, airboats, marriage, God, small government, etc, etc. Not to mention there are many who use these issues to raise huge amounts of $$$$ to fight those (like us) who support these evil injustices.
Plan on more stands we must make in the future. Our little "victories" will be when we are able to legally back the idiots up and force them to "leave us alone" and for them to practice a "live & let live" philosophy. That won't happen unless we make the effort to protect ALL of OUR HERITAGE.
Should anyone think these folks will back down on their own, I have some prime swampland in Brazil for sale...............
 
Between the liberals, Dem's, and equal rights activists, things are getting a little ridiculous, It's about time that there's a group to stand up for southern pride. Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, and every other immigrant can come here and display their flag as a symbol of pride and nothing is said- yet let a southerner fly a rebel flag and we're called racist. IMO if the immigrants want to come here and fly another country's flag because they're proud of it... then they should head right back to where they came from if its so great.

In my town there are quite a few blacks that wear the rebel flag, and I'd be willing to bet that they're not wearing it because they're racist against their own kind.

These people need to get over the whole "double standards" thing and start focusing on real problems that our country is dealing with today
 
kind of off subject but,not all slaves complained about beeing a slave either my father in law as a teenager in north GA.met an old black man that said he hated when slavery came to an end and the north had wrecked the southern states.he explained what his job was as a slave. he was about 6'5" and built well and he travelled around as a man who was to impregnate other slaves to breed a race to be as strong as him.he said if he had to guess he would have had over 300 kids. :shock: whether or not this is true but what an enslavement.
 
They said the symbol was Racist and Disruptive.
well I'm just an old cracker myself, but it seems to me
that a symbol is a thing. while racist and disruptive
are actions or types of behavior. Just like the gun control
bunch, trying to blame peoples actions on a thing that
has no action of it's own. I think it's against the law to
shoot people, if we would strictly enforce this law there
would be no need for gun control. If they would punish
racist and disruptive behavior symbols would be harmless
 
Maybe we should be more like South Carolina..................
Unfortunately, Gov. Crist has declined to sign a Robert E. Lee Proclamation marking 2007 as the 200th anniversary of Gen Lee's birth. Maybe ya'll should tell Gov. Crist about it and to support our tag effort. Diversity does not mean minority.

Honorable Charlie Crist-Governor charlie.crist@myflorida.com

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South Caroline State House

A BILL TO AMEND ARTICLE 9, CHAPTER 1, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE, BY ADDING SECTION 1-1-616, TO DESIGNATE MAY AS CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL MONTH.

12/06/06 Senate Prefiled
12/06/06 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
01/09/07 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-79
01/09/07 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-79
01/17/07 Senate Referred to Subcommittee: Moore (ch), Ford, Mescher, Rankin, Scott

S. 124

A BILL

TO AMEND ARTICLE 9, CHAPTER 1, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE, BY ADDING SECTION 1-1-616, TO DESIGNATE MAY AS CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL MONTH.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Article 9, Chapter 1, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 1-1-616. The month of May in every year is designated Confederate Memorial Month. South Carolinians are encouraged to sponsor and participate in appropriate observances of Confederate Memorial Month."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.


Start those cards and letters and E-mails NOW, to the above!

Bill Schleuning
Litchfield Camp, SCV
Myrtle Beach, SC.

Ah, the Great State of SOUTH CAROLINA, where it first began...and will Never end!
 
PW, I just emailed our new Governor in support of that proposed Confederate Heritage license tag.

I told him that he would probably be hearing a lot of criticism of it from faction groups, but that on behalf of my great grandfather (who lost two sons and several slaves to that conflict) that it was important to me to see to it that their history wasn't allowed to be forgotten.
 
we live in a world of reverse discrimination these days, fellas. i did a presentation on reverse discrimination to a black professor, and the things i found out through my research almost made me want to puke.:pukeright:

if you want to see something that will tick you off, just google search "reverse discrimination" and see what all comes up. however, if you're having a good day, i wouldn't recommend reading any of the articles
 
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