Birdstrike
Atlantic City
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From Washington Post 3 March:
"...CHARLOTTESVILLE, March 2 -- Two hours before her team completed a 69-59 upset of No. 8 North Carolina, Virginia freshman Deidra Chatman became the second college basketball player to protest U.S. foreign policy by turning away from the American flag during the pregame national anthem.
Manhattanville College senior Toni Smith has sparked controversy this season by refusing to acknowledge the flag, and before today's game at University Hall, Chatman followed Smith's lead. Standing in a line with her teammates and coaches in front of their bench as a handful of local girl scouts brought the flag to midcourt, Chatman turned toward the baseline, 90 degrees to her left.
After the win, which cemented Virginia's third-place ACC finish, Chatman explained that she was motivated by her opposition to a potential war with Iraq and by her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness. She said her mother, Fayette Elliott, does not acknowledge the flag and raised her children to believe they could choose not to as well...."
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Oh the irony; a mimority female attending a taxpayer-subsidized school where she was more than likely admitted through an affirmative action program competing in a sport that wouldn't even exist in a Div I school were it not for Title IX, accepts all of these benefits and then has the audacity to turn her back on her country.
Legal? Yes. Morally reprehensible? Absolutely. Men and women this is wrong. There are other more appropriate methods and forums to register your opposition to your nation's foreign policy without dishonoring our flag and all that it represents.
Sorry to get off-topic but this forum covers a wide latitude. Teach your sons and daughters to always show honor and respect to the flag. Too many have given their lives defending the freedoms it represents to do any less.
"...CHARLOTTESVILLE, March 2 -- Two hours before her team completed a 69-59 upset of No. 8 North Carolina, Virginia freshman Deidra Chatman became the second college basketball player to protest U.S. foreign policy by turning away from the American flag during the pregame national anthem.
Manhattanville College senior Toni Smith has sparked controversy this season by refusing to acknowledge the flag, and before today's game at University Hall, Chatman followed Smith's lead. Standing in a line with her teammates and coaches in front of their bench as a handful of local girl scouts brought the flag to midcourt, Chatman turned toward the baseline, 90 degrees to her left.
After the win, which cemented Virginia's third-place ACC finish, Chatman explained that she was motivated by her opposition to a potential war with Iraq and by her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness. She said her mother, Fayette Elliott, does not acknowledge the flag and raised her children to believe they could choose not to as well...."
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Oh the irony; a mimority female attending a taxpayer-subsidized school where she was more than likely admitted through an affirmative action program competing in a sport that wouldn't even exist in a Div I school were it not for Title IX, accepts all of these benefits and then has the audacity to turn her back on her country.
Legal? Yes. Morally reprehensible? Absolutely. Men and women this is wrong. There are other more appropriate methods and forums to register your opposition to your nation's foreign policy without dishonoring our flag and all that it represents.
Sorry to get off-topic but this forum covers a wide latitude. Teach your sons and daughters to always show honor and respect to the flag. Too many have given their lives defending the freedoms it represents to do any less.
