School District: Betsy Ross Flag Symbolizes “Hate”



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.

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.

Oh, the horror.

“You can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation,” said Briana Urena-Ravelo, co-founder of the Grand Rapids Black Lives Matter group.

Ms. Urena-Ravelo, who represents a group that specializes in overt intentional racism and intimidation, told television station WOOD that the students intended to be racist.

“For these white kids from a white school to bring out a flag of the colonies with the ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump flag to a game with black students on the field, it’s all very obvious,” she told the television station.

Parent Matthew Patulski wrote a scathing Facebook diatribe – accusing students of “brandishing these symbols of nationalism and white supremacy.”

Supt. Behm fired off a wordy, two-page letter lecturing folks in the district about their “privilege” and apologizing to the inner city school.

“Whether our privileges are derived from the circumstances of our birth, our race, our geography, our work, or our wealth, our blind privileges can produce a poverty of perspective and understanding,” he wrote.

“Injecting partisan politics into a community football game and into a commemoration of the events of September 11th is inappropriate,” he wrote. ‘Parading our current United States flag in a manner that is inconsistent with proper etiquette is disrespectful to all who have served our nation.”

So let’s look at the facts:

1.       The students wore red, white and blue because it was a “red, white and blue” theme night.

2.       The students traditionally wear red, white and blue to commemorate Sept. 11th.

3.       There are no local news reports of students using any sort of derogatory or racially offensive language.

4.       The Betsy Ross flag is not racist.

5.       A Trump “Make America Great Again” banner is not racist.

6.       Supt. Daniel Behr is a pinhead

Parents and patriots in the Forest Hills Public Schools district should rise up and demand that the superintendent retract his offensive letter and apologize for smearing the brave teenagers who dared to show their American pride.

Oh, by the way – Mr. Patulski also took great offense because the students were chanting, “Go Green! Go White!”

“We were all quite taken aback by these loud chants,” he wrote.

That’s because the school colors are green and white, you self-righteous nincompoop.


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What was their intention on displaying that flag? That flag in itself isn't racist. It's a memorabilia of when our country first started. Yes, at that time their were slaves. But the display of the flag here would depend on the context it was being displayed, not just purely because it was there.

Would love for them to explain to me specifically what is racist in this context of this incident.

Okay... let's review

1- Confederate Battle flag
2- State flags (in some places)
3- Jackson on money
4- American flag
5- American flag T-shirts
6- American flag on campus
7- American flag display on private  & rented property
8- Betsy Ross flag

Any others ?

All bad,!  Tsk! Tsk!



WAKEY WAKEY ....  RESIDENTS!

What I get out of the picture, this being for a school and all. And not specifically some kind of rights movement ect. That they were insinuating that with Trump, he'll bring back the old ways of how the country was ran. Before it became corrupted. Now not supporting this action, or rejecting it. Just bringing up that I think this is being looked at a little more deeper then it was intended.

what Bottomless stupidity!
That Flag represents the first 13 Colonies,and was first documented to have flown in 1792!

The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States, popularly — but very likely incorrectly — attributed to Betsy Ross, using the common motifs of alternating red-and-white striped field with five-pointed stars in a blue canton. The first documented usage of this flag was in 1792.[1] The flag features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies with the stars arranged in a circle.WIKI

I do wish to present a question, as I don't see the connection. What does this have to do with racism? Yes at the time of this flags life, white was supreme, so to speak. But that doesn't mean that's what the flag stands for or means.

Maybe that is, at least part of the intention & Trump & racism is the EXCUSE

Reason I don't get the connection is this flag wasn't made to degrade African Americans or to promote dominantly whites. It's not like a white supremacy flag or anything.

And besides that, there was just as much racism in the country with the current USA flag until the recent century or so. Even slaves and things of that nature until again the recent century or so.

Historically challenged like heck!

That sniveling revisionists think any American flag is racist....

I'll have a yardfull by weeks end.

Historically challenged ...