Confederate flag controversy at Iowa school continues to grow [View all]
4:41 PM CDT Sep 25, 2015
VINTON, Iowa .... students at an Iowa high school displayed confederate flags on their vehicles Friday after a student was sent home Thursday for refusing to remove such a flag from his pickup truck ...
... students on Friday said they didn't display the flag in support of the racist history it represents for many people but as a symbol of the country's heritage ...
About 25 students added the flags to their vehicles. Administrators told them to either remove the flags or move their cars off school property. They faced suspension unless their complied with the order ...
Some students said they will return to school on Monday with the flags.
http://www.kcci.com/news/students-battle-school-over-displaying-confederate-flags/35487846
Confederate guerrillas did attack around Bloomfield in 1864; and Jesse James, still winning sympathy across the South as a unreconstructed confederate irregular, staged his groundbreaking train derailment and robbery near Adair in 1873; but I hadn't considered Iowa as confederate territory: Iowa had sent plenty of soldiers to fight for the union, including six companies of black troops
So I was surprised this summer to learn that, in several different 4 July parades, the Marion County Republicans' float was pulled by a truck covered with the confederate rag; after the parade, the Republicans decided that they objected; and the truck owner said, we won't be slaves to the Republican Party
Now we've got kids there wanting to wave the thing around
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