"Redneck Day" Causes Federal Investigation

So, if the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to White people, it shouldn't apply to black people either.
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The U.S. Department of Education has officially opened an investigation into allegations that an Arizona high school’s campus-wide “Redneck Day” amounted to a federal civil rights violation.

The kerfuffle giving rise to the investigation arose back in May at Queen Creek High School on the outskirts of Phoenix. The student council hatched a plan to energize students for prom week that included a faculty adviser-approved “Redneck Day.” The point was to dress like – and spoof – “Duck Dynasty,” an A&E reality TV show which follows a wealthy, eccentric Louisiana family.

It’s not exactly clear how dressing like a hillbilly was going to motivate anyone for prom. What did happen, though, is that one kid bedecked himself in Confederate flag regalia, which offended some students. (RELATED: ‘Redneck Day,’ ‘White Trash Wednesday’ don’t go over so well at public schools)

In a July 18 missive to Reverend Jarrett Maupin II, the complainant, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights branch office in Denver details the status of the investigation.

“On May 23, 2013, we received your complaint alleging the Queen Creek Unified School District (District) discriminated on the basis of race,” the letter reads. “Specifically, you allege that the District discriminated by creating a racially hostile environment at the ‘redneck day’ event on May 1, 2013, at Queen Creek High School and by failing to take action to correct the racially hostile environment.”

The racial hostility apparently occurred because of one student who was wearing the Confederate flag—apparently like a cape. An assistant principal asked the student to remove the flag cape, which he did.

“It was no ill intent,” Tom Lindsey, superintendent of the Queen Creek Unified School District, told The Arizona Republic at the time.

Lindsey suggested that the Confederate flag-wearing student didn’t understand the problem at first because he had been transplant from an unnamed state where the Confederate flag is allegedly a more ordinary sight.

“We have determined that we have the authority to investigate this allegation,” the DOE letter also states. “We note, however, that the display of the confederate flag concerns rights protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Therefore, the scope of OCR’s investigation will be limited to whether a racially hostile environment was created due to language and actions that were not protected by the First Amendment.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/26/f...rizona-high-school-have-nothing-better-to-do/

 

This is a prime exemplar of why we do not need a Dept of Education.
it has a denver office for civil rights... what?
The Federal Govt is ridiculously big.

This was can and should be handled locally.

 

It's only in recent years that the Confederate flag has become a symbol that the blacks "find offensive."

I remember on a trip to the south when I was a kid I bought a big 3x5 confederate flag. I thought it was cool and hung it in my bedroom.

If my parents even considered that it was a racist symbol they would have put it in the trash along with giving me a good whacking.

Today we have the PC police telling us what we can and can't do that might offend some loser.

 

All it takes is one whiny loudmouthed liberal to get offended, and it's over for everyone.

 

Confederate flags used to be commonplace at NASCAR races. Then the newer generation of politically correct managers decided they would rather offend their southern base than jesse Jackson, so they effectively banned them from races.

Recently, they even banned a display of the iconic General Lee Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazard. It has a flag on its roof after all. The fact that this was a network TV show not all that long ago shows how far political corectness has gone and how suffocating it is now.

NASCAR insiders will tell you, as they have me, that it is just because their corporate sponsors don't want any controversy. They are a national event now and have to be inclusive.

Whatever. I am a lifelong fan, and I am done with them. From the ratings and attendance, a lot of others feel the same way.

 

This kind of censorship is often justified with the excuse if a particular PC-protected group finds something offensive, then we should defer to them. Funny what a one-way street this is however.

For example, liberals now give violent blacks a blank check to engage in any kind of violence if they hear the "n word" used by a white. They can use any disparaging terms they want for us and we are supposed to take it with good humor. After all, they are just words.

The Confederate flag issue takes it to a whole new level. The law has always recognized the existence of "fighting words", which can be an excuse for an assault and can be legally banned. The flag censorship goes way beyond that and amounts to nothing less than cultural cleansing. A traditional symbol of Southern exceptionalism and pride has been effectively banned because a group of blacks and liberals hate Southerners.

A lot of people are not thrilled to see gay pride parades, amnesty rallies with mexican flags or the president celebrating the religion that gave us 9/11 and the Boston bombers. We however are expected to accept it in the spirit of diversity or inclusiveness. We can't mention our own religion in schools or increasingly in the military, but apparently that's different.

The First Amendment is not there to protect popular speech. Popular speech doesn't need protection. Speech that is unpopular or controversial or even offensive is the very speech that needs constitutional protection, but liberals have a different view. Their First Amendment reads"Everyone who disagrees with me shut the fuck up."

 

Absolutely GD right!
That dept has done nothing to improve education, but they do make education infinitely more expensive than it needs to be.