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Confederate Flag On School Grounds: A Case Study

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The administrator ultimately banned the wearing of the confederate flag on school grounds nonetheless she admitted that she could not “ban it for eternity” (Hardie, 2013) and within months the students were back to wearing the flag. One of the teachers explained, “Our school’s, you know, real big, was real big into wearing the Confederate flag and they didn’t—I think it was lack of education or really understanding. I think we got a bunch of country bumpkins that just wore it because that’s what always—you know” (Hardie, 2013). This shows that although the history of the flag is known, the students’ allowed to wear the attire because the lack of understanding and education of the true meaning of the
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South Carolina then replaced their confederate emblem. This left Mississippi as the only state that still hangs the racial emblem. Yes, we are the only state out of 50 that does not have their act together. Not to mention that 7 out of the 8 universities in Mississippi have chosen to stop flying the emblem. If our flag represents our state, what does our flag say about our state?

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