http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/10/1401067/-One-Virginia-high-school-principal-unapologetic-about-using-racist-symbol-for-sports-teams?detail=email
Hurley's teams, known as the Rebels, don a logo that features the Confederate flag waving from a sword. The school's Facebook page shows football players running onto the field beneath the Confederate flag after bursting through a homecoming banner on which a hand-drawn version of the battle flag is the most prominent feature.
"Since all of this has come about, our community has stood behind the logo and the flag," Hurley High principal Pamela Dotson told The Huffington Post this week, echoing comments she made first to the Bristol Herald Courier. […]
[I]n Hurley, residents see the current debate as "just about politics and ignorance about the true meaning of the flag," according to Dotson, who described the school's use of the flag as an honor to area soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War and a reminder of the area's history.
"The folks that chose our mascot were not pro-slavery. They were not racist," Dotson said. "Nothing malicious or ill-minded was intended."
Buchanan County, home to Hurley, is 96.1 percent white, according to the Census Bureau. Just 2.9 percent of its 23,000 residents are African-American.
Hurley High, Dotson said, has just one black student this year, an athlete who she said wears the Rebel uniform and the Confederate flag that adorns it with pride. She hasn't heard any complaints from a black student in her three years as principal.
"Never," Dotson said. "They've been accepted with open arms as part of the family."
Right. Those very few black students are going to stick their very lonely necks out to protest. But hey, they haven't said anything, so they must be fine with this daily reminder that their heritage is one of chains and whips.
They must be happy to honor the soldiers who fought to keep their ancestors in bondage, since they haven't said otherwise. It's "heritage," not hate so if they know what's good for them they'll continue to keep their mouths shut and stay in the "family"—that's the message Ms. Dotson is clearly expressing here.
they are planting the seeds of hate and separatism in their children with the hope of a bumper crop of new generation haters in their image. we've seen several instances where the children aren't biting they see those their parents and elders denigrate on a daily basis and what they hear and what they experience just doesn't jive. not saying a few won't make the cut because they will some people old or young just relish being the minority objectioner's no matter what the subject they have to be the counter point we all know some.
saying someone is ignorant to your assumptions has a double edge effect you can be seen as the ignorant one because of your assumption what's that old saying "don't assume because it makes an ass out of you and me" paraphrased but you get my drift. one Black kid no objection to a White racist standard in an all White except him school like the article notes of course he's going to play along or be a statistic. it's on the list of things to do to assure Black survival.
