A Michigan school district called the historic “Betsy Ross” flag a symbol of hate and profusely apologized after students displayed the flag at a recent high school football game.
“To wave a historical version of our flag, that to some symbolizes exclusion and hate, injects hostility and confusion to an event where no one intended to do so,” wrote Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm in a letter to parents.
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The controversy surrounding the 13-star flag erupted on Sept. 9th during a football game between predominantly white Forest Hills Central High School and predominantly black Ottawa Hills High School, MLive reports.
Forest Hills students not only waved a “Betsy Ross” flag, but they also displayed a Donald Trump banner (behavior guaranteed to get you labeled deplorable).
At least one parent was “shocked” to hear students chanting, “USA” and wearing red, white and blue.
if we dont get control of education in this country all will be lost period dot end of story.
The oly way we can do that is to completely SCRUB out the Dept of indoctrination (i mean education), and get rid of ALL Liberal scratch from the teachers unions..
Time for Home Schooling,if you want your children to learn anything about being an American .. the existing school systems are teaching everything except how to be a GOD loving Patriotic American..
As we see here again that the Negro-American community is extremely racist.
These people profess to be passionate enemies of racism; they in fact perpetuate racism by injecting it where it does not otherwise exist.
ANYTHING these racist Negro-Americans do not like they whine racism,
then demand more free cheese.
Which is why i keep saying BLACKS are the most racist group out there..
Muslims compose a great deal of the population in Dearborn, Mi. The police keep a pretty good eye on them. There are a few radicals there but most know better and they also police themselves.
I am so sick and tired of hearing how the flag represents hate and bigotry. Yes, we have had slavery, we have had people discriminated against for one reason or another. Do you hear the Native American Indian crying foul — NO! do you hear the Irish, German, Greek, Italians (and I could keep naming others) crying about how they have been discriminated against in this country, I think not! Yet every time I turn around lately everyone is whining about how the Black, Afro-American, Negro whatever they call themselves this week have suffered. Let’s get real people. Time to clean out Washington, D.C. and the Department of Education!
Do these people who think that everything is hateful, even flags, think that they (personally) are the personification of peace, love and human perfection?
These freaking ********* are the REAL haters!!! They demonize anyone or anything that does not agree with their anti-American agenda!!! As far as the flag goes,I for the life of me, CANNOT find a single offensive thing about IT or ANYTHING it symbolizes. If you intruders to our culture have a problem with it, I suggest you find a more suitable country to live in!!! As far as being offended goes, I am quite offended by those who live here, many of them living off the taxpayers’ backs complaining about OUR history!!! Maybe if some of these morons actually knew son]me of our REAL history, not just the “progressive” revised edition, they would think differently!!
They certainly are the biggest bunch of haters out there.. Don’t like it, SUE IT INTO oblivion and cry foul till everyone hates what you dislike… And if they don’t, then HATE THEM..
That is always their mantra.
I fail to understand the idiocy of this crowd who is either to dumb to know or care that thousands and thousands of men and even boys died to free the black man from bondage, fighting in our great Civil War….and they say we have white privilege….tell that to the ghosts of these brave Americans, both white and black. If American patriotism insults you, then leave, please, and the sooner the better.
I’m sorry but African-Americans have a serious inferiority complex that spews hate for anything that is not part of their culture. This will never end because it is passed on in the ghettos to all the illegitimate blacks that have no fathers and mothers who have mastered the welfare/handout system.
As racists, these folk put the KKK to shame. Wonder what Martin would think?
IMO MLK would be stick to his stomach..
Perhaps the superintendent for Ottawa Hills owes an apology to their parents. If my kids went to that school, I would like to know why the students are offended by the American flag and chants of USA.
Forest Hills apologizing is silly. Ottawa Hills needing an apology is damning.
It seems to be more common these days.. Foreigners dislike US Citizens being PROUD of being American, and cry foul till they get an apology from us CAUSE of being prideful…
Sickening.
The article describes the school as “predominantly black”. That would suggest they wouldn’t be foreigners but instead American citizens whose parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and on and on would have been born U.S. citizens. That is why the parents of the Ottawa Hills students are owed an apology and a resignation. Of course the parents share responsibility for their children’s ignorance of history and the world around them.
To all non African-Americans living in the USA. Don’t fall for the racist baiting system. Blacks are masters at it and teach their illegitimate kids the fundamentals of the race-baiting, handout and welfare system. Latinos, Hispanics and Mexicans: Don’t fall for their system.. They want you in it but really hate you.
Come again Darby? If they are also US citizens, why then should they take such offense that demands an apology from having OTHER US citizens fly the US FLAG??
OH MY GOD! A Michigan school district called the historic “Betsy Ross” flag a symbol of hate? Who is this District? Do we need to send the teachers back to school to get an education on American History or does the whole district need to review the history of this country they live in? Just how is the flag representing the 13 colonies hateful? My guess is they were too stupid to know what the flag actually meant
With how much liberals love revising history to meet THEIR story ends, of course they are unknowing on the TRUTH of history..
>> My guess is they were too stupid to know what the flag actually meant <<
Allow me to explain how this works. Someone said he or she was offended, because the flag represents bigotry and racism. This left liberals with two choices; do some research to learn if the accusation is true, or assume it's true and call for an apology. Obviously one way is easier than the other, so that's the choice all good liberals will make; assume the charge is true and demand an apology. See how simple it is? (This choice also carries the advantage of making you appear to be unbiased and a good guy. Note, "appear to be.")
You're welcome.
Of course they take the easy way.. Doing the other way, and actually research the truth, would
A) require an actual effort from them and
B) expose them to NON LIBERALLY redacted facts
Why don’t we go into all schools,libraries,etc and just burn all our history books,also ban American history in all schools and colleges? Is that what idiot libs want?
I am surely beginning to think so! TRUMP 2016!!!
It certainly seems that way.. First off it was the Confederate flag, then the US flag itself, now the Betsy ross (original 13 colonies) flag..
At this rate, i think they will ONLY be satisfied if the US completely breaks down…
I bet if they had an ISIS flag, no one would complain!
Many schools are actually doing this — not literally “burning” the books, but removing them from the shelves and discarding them, so that they wind up in landfills. As for banning history, that’s also being done. Instead, students get indoctrination sessions in victimology and “popular culture” (i.e., trash).
And to think.. 1000s of people died in WW2, to STOP This sort of fascism from taking root..
http://www.fhps.net/about-us/office-of-the-superintendent/
Here is his page. Email him, ask him to articulate his point instead of using clichés and popular catch phrase terms for effect. Betcha he can’t logically explain his point of view.
Knowing this liberal trash, he won’t even respond to questions about why.. And if he does, he will just call anyone who does question his decision a hater/racist/bigot etc..
You gotta be kidding me. Just when you think they couldn’t get any dumber they prove you wrong by jumping on the stupid train.
Maybe they would be more comfortable with the swastika, the rising sun flag, the communist hammer and sickle, or any other symbol of real hate and oppression. The school district superintendant comes across as having a mushy brain indoctinated with liberal hatred of just about anything they can’t control, tax, or destroy!
There are times i honestly DO feel these schmegs would be happier with one of those other flags you mentioned..
After all, all 3 of them represent repressive regimes which control what you read/hear/see and can say.. WHICH fits right in with how liberals are..
Traitors, working hard to kill national unity using our flag which is our emblem of nationhood to attack our country, Treason!
And what’s worse imo. Is the # of white athletes jumping on the Kaepernick bandwagon, and DOING so during a NATIONAL game not just a team league game.. Sorry but if you are representing the NATION and wearing the NATIONAL uniform, you should damn well better respect that nation you are serving. EITHER THAT< or don't play for the team…
I am now 81 years young served during Korean war some called it a peace action
Anyway, I fought and my friends died for these idiots be able to disrespect our history? I think not like the man said love it or leave it. See if U can go to any other country and have the freedoms we have here. And guess what it all started with the 13 States
I agree. My war was the Vietnam War, and I was with one of the AF squadrons that did the evacuations at the end. Those people fleeing the NVA were running TO us, not FROM us, because they knew the difference between the tyranny pouring in from the North and the freedoms of the USA. When I got back to the States, if it hadn’t been pouring down rain and if there hadn’t been SPs all over the airfield, I would have gotten down on my knees and kissed the ground. And these idiots want to throw away everything great about our Nation.
Redryder: Thank you so much for your service. My dad died of malnutrition in a Chinese POW camp in Korea. His remains have never been repatriated. I am his last survivor, and I guess I’m about to give up hope I will ever be able to bring him back to the country he died for with the nut governing No. Korea now. I am so sad and heart broken he is still somewhere in Korea instead of here in our country. I so wanted to bring him home while members of his family were here to welcome him back. I’m sure from his spot in heaven he is so saddened and heartbroken to see the trashing of the flag that represents him and all our wonderful veterans, dead and alive, who gave every last ounce so we can have the freedoms that are being taken for granted, and trashing of the country he so loved. He volunteered for Korea after having served in WWII. God bless you Redryder!!! I’m glad you are home. The vast majority of us love this country and respect what our flag stands for.
Of course our first flags were symbols of hatred: hatred for the tyrant King in England, hatred for the tyrants in the government there, hatred for the redcoats who murdered our people. The people of America were mostly English and they wanted to be treated like the Englishmen in England were treated. But because they were getting treated like scum and dirt, they became angry and they hated. They hated the lack of freedom and liberty. They hated foreign soldiers (the Hessian mercenaries) being brought to kill them. They hated King George. If the students and parents of Forest Hills don’t know that, they are idiots and so is this Superintendent.
These freaking ********* are the REAL haters!!! They demonize anyone or anything that does not agree with their anti-American agenda!!! As far as the flag goes,I for the life of me, CANNOT find a single offensive thing about IT or ANYTHING it symbolizes. If you intruders to our culture have a problem with it, I suggest you find a more suitable country to live in!!! As far as being offended goes, I am quite offended by those who live here, many of them living off the taxpayers’ backs complaining about OUR history!!! Maybe if some of these morons actually knew son]me of our REAL history, not just the “progressive” revised edition, they would think differently!!
I don’t think so…………..this indoctrination procedure has been specifically designed to undermine anyone who is not willing and ready to go along with their agenda. Unless real Americans stand up and get involved in mass, so goes the country. The individuals, if you can call them that, are
truly “the basket of deplorables”, that the left has characterized people that do not support HRC and not just the Trump supporters. Everyone has to remember, the entire Demo-crap party, the Drive-By Media, George Sorros et al is absolutely behind her, need I say more??!!!
Hatred against white British Europeans whom we chased back to “Merry Olde”?
I wonder how HATERS like this person are able to shave, brush their teeth or comb their hair. They HATE so, Hate comes from ones Ideas, ones view of ones Self worth, LIFE.
I almost pity them some times.
Almost!
“Educators” will be the death of this nation. Government schools have become a curse which is turning young people into sniveling snowflakes who need safe places at college where no idea that they don’t understand or don’t agree with can upset them.If my children were still school age they would go to private school or be home-schooled.
With how grades seem to go down year after year after year, and our ranking in the world does the same, they certainly are not doing much educating..
This ONE parent was Surprised to hear them say USA,this is the USA you Stupid,Ignorant Cretin!!! DUH!!!
Maybe that’s the problem.. She wants this country to be more like her home..
D@mnably Demented Democrats have taken over public education in America. Either someone will have work on every school district to get the brain-warped personnel out of the schools and begin that immediately when Trump is elected POTUS, or exit the public school system entirely and home school your children and grandchildren.
I just spoke to the Superintendent’s Office. I guess he was TRYING to apologize for the fact that a mostly black HS took offense at their use of the Betsy Ross flag. (Why they should is anyone’s guess-it’s THEIR flag too!!!) We have made a piece of out of this nation in the past eight years, and I realize that I spent the best years of my life (I’m USN Ret) serving a nation I don’t think I love anymore. It is NO LONGER the country I dedicated my life to.
The more reason to vote Trump. I think he is putting Carson in charge of education.
GOOD.. Carson is imo a good pick for DoE.. However i would rather he take over the dept of health, and DISBAND the DoE..
Stupid is as stupid does. Maybe they are so stupid, they didn’t know what the flag was !!!
Dont see the problem. Thanks colon kapertwit, you are helping to raise up a group of foolish and ignorant whiners, bound for no job welfare..
Maybe TRUMP can fit in the budget a govt airlines that ships out stupid people from the nation and only keep the wise un-deplorable ones.
You have got to be kidding. Are these PC revisionists getting their ideas from the rodeo pens, after the bull riding contest? When will people realize that we do not live in the 17, 18, nor even in the early to mid 19 hundreds. To those that want to look at the founding of America as evil, need to remember that:
1. The British, Dutch and others, including Arab (Muslim) nations, were buying slaves from coastal African tribes long before the colonies
2. A close look at the Constitution will show that our founder were not ALL supporters of slavery but they had to make some compromises to get the support of those colonies (states) who did support it.
3. Had the colonies not become independent or, if the Constitution not been passed, the British would have retaken the Americas and their pro slavery policies would have stood.
It is time that we get our heads out of our butts and realized that, if we keep living in the past, we will become even more divided. The more divided we become, the worse off we will all become. (You can thank the media and liberals for the wedge they are driving between the races and ethnic backgrounds in America. It is helping the ones who want to destroy us, not the ones who want to make America the greatest and freest nation in the world.
Liberals will never get their heads out of each others behind.. That would require them to see stuff they don’t agree with.
If these ******** think the US is so bad, why don’t they find another place where they will be happy. Why make everyone else miserable? This all goes back to obama and his apology tour throughout the world. We have nothing to be sorry for. obama is the eppitomy of the PC world. He is an America hater. I have yet to hear this sad excuse for a human being say anything good about this country. He has destroyed everything he touches. He does not know what sacrifice is. If he had been president during the 1940’s, we would all be speaking German or Japanese. He is a waste of a human being. God does not usually make mistakes, but he did with obama.
Yes and with All of his n CrooKilary IDIOTS,Mentally Demented Morons!!
Maybe the school district is run by the British still under King George’s rule.
Mr. Behm would do well to consider that, while the Betsy Ross flag might be seen by a small number of bigots, racists, and morons, as an offensive symbol of hate, the VAST majority of Americans, especially those with any actual knowledge of our national history, see that flag as a symbol of the birth of true freedom for the first time in world history. It might be more to his credit if, instead of apologizing to that racist minority of easily offended buffoons, he instead made a concerted effort to teach the students in his schools the history and real meaning of the flag and the nascent country it represented. While he’s at it, he might also make sure his students were required to learn the philosophical underpinnings of our founding fathers and the rationale behind our Constitution. THAT would be a lot more useful than apologizing and pandering to the raucous racist fringe.
That would require he actually DO something other than open his mouth and butt kiss..
Michigan is becoming a muslim stronghold and muslims want everyone to believe the entire existence of the United States is racist. In there minds the “Great Satan” can’t be anything else because the very Constitution of America stands directly opposed to Sharia Law and therefore must be every bad thing known to man including racist. They believe if they can convince us to hate our national history that we will then be willing to let America be replaced with what they demand replace it. Consequently, anything they hear about they think they can attack they will even if they have to complain from the other side of the state or enlist national organizations to do it. We are in a soft war of propaganda and infiltration and most of America is as of yet blind to it. Do not be the weaklings they think Americans are. We must stand up and call them out whenever and wherever they show their anti-American BS because we are Freedom’s last stand. Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
“I’ve got to stop saying “HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?”. Too many people (liberals) are taking it as a challenge.”
Anonymous
That flag does represent hate. It represents hate of powerful government forces, tyranny, and subjogation of it’s people to a tyrant.