Should a high school student have the right to put a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck if he wants to do it? His school doesn't seem to think so.
According to reports out of Hamilton, N.J., Steinert High School student Gregory Vied was suspended recently for refusing to remove a Confederate flag from his truck. The 17-year-old was reportedly asked by the school's principal to remove the flag on several different occasions. And when he didn't do it, the school suspended him.
"Them trying to make me take it down is unconstitutional," Vied told News 12 New Jersey.
Vied also said that while he knows that the flag "stirs strong emotions among those who view it as a symbol of oppression and hate," he displays it proudly because he sees it as "a mark of Southern pride and a connection to relatives who hail from the South."
The American Civil Liberties Union has already stepped up and helped Vied reduce his suspension from three days to one. The organization wrote a letter to the teen's high school and told the principal that Vied has the right to display the Confederate flag if he wants to.
But where do you stand on the issue? Did Vied deserve a suspension, or should he be free to wave the Confederate flag on the back of his truck?
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[via Trentonian]
