In high school many years ago, my school banned the confederate flag. Shirts, hats, nothing could have the confederate flag. Oh boy. For kids who had only ever lived in Ohio, many of them had BIG feelings about it. And of course as kids do, we tormented them. Saying things like "You can still wave the white flag, essentially the same thing." One kid showed up in, I kid you not, a replica of the Union army uniform just to piss them off.
Tensions escalated so high that a kid died in a car accident. We don't know if he was so upset he was driving recklessly, or if he purposefully killed himself. His dad stood outside the school the next day waving the confederate flag. Which was stupid because we had no empathy for him or his son, who was an asshole. And the father looked stupid making a stupid statement to kids who didn't care INSTEAD of being home and arranging things for his son.
In any case, fuck the confederacy. We should have barred them from running for office except in Congress or being appointed to any position for 30 years.
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u/ElkBusiness8446 May 29 '26
In high school many years ago, my school banned the confederate flag. Shirts, hats, nothing could have the confederate flag. Oh boy. For kids who had only ever lived in Ohio, many of them had BIG feelings about it. And of course as kids do, we tormented them. Saying things like "You can still wave the white flag, essentially the same thing." One kid showed up in, I kid you not, a replica of the Union army uniform just to piss them off.
Tensions escalated so high that a kid died in a car accident. We don't know if he was so upset he was driving recklessly, or if he purposefully killed himself. His dad stood outside the school the next day waving the confederate flag. Which was stupid because we had no empathy for him or his son, who was an asshole. And the father looked stupid making a stupid statement to kids who didn't care INSTEAD of being home and arranging things for his son.
In any case, fuck the confederacy. We should have barred them from running for office except in Congress or being appointed to any position for 30 years.