re: Teacher Fired For Using Confederate Flag Accurately in History Class

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That's pure conjecture.

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Of course it's pure conjecture, if your sole source this article, which couldn't to link the the local news stories. It also coincidentally misspelled his name so you can't find the local stories without the correct spelling.

But of you read the local news stories (linked on previous page), you'll see there was a formal complaint files against him regarding "hanging of all blacks equally."

Now if you go by the complaint, it appears somewhat racist. If you go by his story, he was just providing an example of what "Southerners" would say, so he's presented a stereotypical and insulting view of Southerners.

So one one hand, he could be racist; on the other hand, he could have bigoted views of the South. At the very least, a history teacher should be able to provide a better example, especially since, you know, the whole civil rights movement was based on equality.

But of course, he can't give the example of the Southerners argument of equality, as if there weren't numerous supreme Court cases and laws dealing with "separate but EQUAL."