NC public school system bans Confederate flag

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Aug 28, 2017 11:03 AM EDT
Updated: Aug 28, 2017 11:07 AM EDT

DURHAM, NC (AP) — A North Carolina public school system has revised its dress code to prohibit the Confederate flag, Ku Klux Klan symbols and swastikas.

Local news outlets report the Durham Public Schools board voted unanimously Thursday to make the change. The Herald-Sun of Durham reports that board members had expressed support for the change during a work session last week. Durham, home to Duke University, is where protesters toppled a Confederate statue in front of the old county courthouse Aug. 14 following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted into deadly violence.

“These things, historically, were meant for hate, or at some point in history, meant hatred,” board chairman Mike Lee said.

In addition to the dress code, the board also voted 7-0 to remove the name of Durham industrialist and philanthropist Julian Shakespeare Carr from the middle school building at Durham School of the Arts. The building once housed an all-white high school ...

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/36231754/north-carolina-public-school-system-bans-confederate-flag

[Corvo Bianco]

1. I'm sorry we have to tell parents not to send their children to school wearing swastikas.