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December 04, 2011 12:00 PM
“Southern Pride”
Apparently a student at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, Byron Thomas, annoyed campus administers when he decided to hang a Confederate flag in his dormitory window.
Thomas is black.
According to an Associated Press article by Susanne Schafer in The State:
The 19-year-old student at the University of South Carolina Beaufort took the flag down at the university’s request, but he said he’s considering putting it back up after the officials relented. Byron Thomas has drawn nearly 70,000 views since he posted a video online in which he acknowledges: “I know it’s kind of weird because I’m black.”
“When I look at this flag, I don’t see racism. I see respect, Southern pride,” he said.
Yea, it’s really weird because you’re black.
While the presence of a Confederate flag in a dorm room at a Southern college is actually not all that rare, it’s still troublesome.
Because the thing is the Confederate flag might very well symbolize “respect and Southern pride” but it’s mostly respect and pride for a period of time in which black people were enslaved. [Image via]
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Sean Scallon on December 04, 2011 9:24 PM:
Yea, it’s really weird because you’re black.
So why do you care? Does a man have a right to self-expression or only when fits preconceived notions?
RollaMo on December 05, 2011 3:08 PM:
Reminds me of the great Chapelle Show skit on the blind black white-supremecist. Maybe the dude can't see?
SouthernDad on January 27, 2012 2:24 PM:
What about the American Flag? It flew over Slavery from 1776-1865 and racism for over 200 years, yet the Confederate Battle flag and Naval Jack that Mr. Byron Thomas is holding in that photo was never a national flag, only military flags. So when are we going to stop using the American flag and their military flags? By the way look up the KKK history those racist losers have used the flag of the USA as their official flag way longer than they have used the Confederate flags.
jy on February 14, 2012 9:55 PM:
You aren't from the South, are you?