HS student sent home from prom for wearing confederate flag dress

[mrveggieman]

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/loca...g-dress/nMhZB/

Your thoughts.

[PDawson21]

As long as your not yelling white power and shoving it down people's throat, I don't really have a problem with someone wearing one. As for a prom, its usually pretty dark and no student is paying attention to what you are wearing anyway.

[mrveggieman]

It's one of those cases where just because she has a legal right to do so dosen't mean that she should do it. Some people on here would view a black student wearing a black panther t-shirt as being just as offensive.

[AThrash37DSnyder]

Glad I am not in HS anymore and never went to prom...$500 of making you look fake for about 3 hours???

[shrewsbury]

is she racist or proud of her southern heritage? though some may not think so, there can be a difference.

if a black person showed up in a white dress with a black panther on it, would that be racist?

i have to disagree with the school on this one

[mrveggieman]

I'm not going to go as far as calling this girl racist. She may have acted in poor taste but that is it unless more facts come out. Also I think that it was pretty stupid on her part to throw $500 away and miss out on one of the biggest nights of her life over shock value.

[PDawson21]

I'm not go to go as far as calling this girl racist. She may have acted in poor taste but that is it unless more facts come out. Also I think that it was pretty stupid on her part to throw $500 away and miss out on one of the biggest nights of her life over shock value.

Prom is way overrated.

[shrewsbury]

Also I think that it was pretty stupid on her part to throw $500 away and miss out on one of the biggest nights of her life over shock value.

I agree but this seems to be the new trend, have it your way or throw it away.
logic would dictate she could just change her dress

[duane1969]

is she racist or proud of her southern heritage? though some may not think so, there can be a difference.

if a black person showed up in a white dress with a black panther on it, would that be racist?

i have to disagree with the school on this one

She is neither.

If you look at the pattern on the dress you can see that it is not a Confederate flag (even tho the OP erroneously calls it that for shock value). Even the article referenced says that the dress RESEMBLES a Confederate flag.

Edwards chose to wear a knee-length red dress that was decorated with white stars inside bright blue stripes, which school officials said resembled the controversial Confederate flag.

Not only is she not a racist because of the dress, she didn't even act in poor taste. It is a red dress with criss-crossing blue stripes with stars in the middle of the stripes.

But of course, in this era of EVERYTHING is racist, she is clearly a furture KKK leader because her dress resembles a Confederate flag and the PC school staff and race-baitng liberal media needs to make drama where none exists.

[angel0430]

I believe that you are free to wear whatever you like. It is not a big deal since it was not a flag and the school also said that it resembled one. They are going to get sued for discrimination adn they are going to have to pay some money