Thursday, January 10, 2013

Is There a Rick Monday Out There Among Today's Youth?

No, I don't worry that there's not a budding young serviceable outfielder for some pro ballclub in the future.  I'm wondering if there is a reflexively courageous, proud American young man or woman out there who, if someone wants to desecrate the flag, has the fortitude to make that person really really want to desecrate that flag by having to be held accountable right there on the spot...

Maybe there is, but not in Chapin, South Carolina it would seem.
The Lexington-Richland District 5 teacher is accused of throwing down the American flag and stomping on it in front of his honors English classes. 
When Michael Copeland overheard his teenager talking about what her honors II English teacher did with the flag in their classroom, he pressed for details. 
"He drew a couple of symbols, like one of them was a cross, and he said, 'What does this represent,' and everybody said, 'Christianity,'" said Copeland. 
"Then he proceeds to take down the American flag, and said, 'This is a symbol, but it's only a piece of cloth. It doesn't mean anything,' and then he throws it down on the floor and then stomps on it, repeatedly."
Is there a Rick Monday out there among our favorite generation of "deluded narcissists"??

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