11-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Refusing to Recite 'Racist' Pledge of Allegiance

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For the record, it’s not mandatory to stand for the Pledge in Florida…

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It’s not mandatory to recite the pledge in any state. It’s against the 1st amendment to compel speech like that.

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That’s what I thought when I first read
this.
Why is the Substitute’s name not in the article?
The boy’s/mother’s is.
Oh and the sub. “is no longer welcome in any of
their schools.”
They need to EDIT that to,
“no longer welcome, anywhere, anytime or anyplace.”

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It shouldn’t even need to be said, but when any display of patriotism becomes mandatory it also becomes meaningless.

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Arrested?!?

What the actual fuck, Florida?

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The kid was black. How fucked up is it that my reflex was to think “at least they didn’t shoot him in the back.”

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I have that same reflexive instinct.

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The teacher told the black student that if he didn’t like the pledge, he was always free to go back where he came from.

Those were the teacher’s own words.

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Substitute teacher, who is about to find it very hard to get assignments.

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From Kelly (Temp) Services, were she will never work again.

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It’s also sad how it escalated, from the sub, to the school admins, to the cops…

I think calling the cops on an 11 year-old, especially where there’s no weapon involved, just makes it seem like the school’s plan for ordinary kid discipline is out of whack.

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If you ‘have to’ call the cops on an ordinary 11 year old, methinks you have fucking failed at everything that actually matters in life.

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I am thinking this is being read incorrectly. He was not arrested for “not standing for the pledge.” He was arested because he is a scary black young man who was unwilling to kowtow to authority. I mean, if we let that happen, it would be just like suporting Kaepernick! We can`t allow POCs to think they have the right to assert their own values in conflict with a person of authority. My stars, perish the very thought! vapors galore

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Nah. Getting a job at one of Betsy deVos’ schools or a detention center will be a snap.

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The whole point of SROs is to imprison and kill Black children.

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This is so wrong on so many levels…

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