Students protested by wearing red, white, and blue duds to school after a fellow student was punished for wearing an American flag shirt. The sophomore wore the tee, which featured a tie-dyed flag motif and the words, "United States of America, Washington, DC" on the school's "hippie day," part of their homecoming festivities. The school's assistant principle deemed the shirt a
violation of the school's dress code which forbids, "shirts/blouses that promote specific races, cultures, or ethnicities."
American Flags as Big as Fields
Once the gaudy lure of attention-seeking car dealerships or other roadside attractions, big flags have found a comfortable home inside the ballparks, arenas and raceways of American sporting events. A small industry has formed to supply the flags, usually at a cost of a few thousand dollars an appearance. The trend began nearly 25 years ago, spiked after 9/11 and now seems simply part of the cultural backdrop in American sports.
Three seniors in Bloomington, MN, missed walking in their graduation last night
as punishment for displaying the Confederate flag on their trucks. For displaying the flag, the three were suspended from all school activities including their own graduation ceremony.
"The Confederate flag is a symbol of, in some cases, hatred, bigotry and it has the potential to create a very disruptive environment," said a spokesperson for the Bloomington School District, on the decision to punish the three.
New mom Christina Aguilera is politically active — and getting her son involved early — by appearing with him in an ad for
Rock the Vote due out this summer. The message of the ad is great — but is the image chosen to trumpet the cause reason to sound the alarm?
Aguilera's son appears in the ad, swaddled in the American flag.
I hear picking a dress is a kind of big part of the whole wedding phenomenon — and hey, the 4th of July is coming up. . .
If hearing about Angola's "
Miss Landmine Survivor" contest didn't teach you enough about the civil war-surviving country, just check out an interpretation of its flag!
Virango has a bunch of
other flags used as social commentary. Believe it or not, flags can offer a quick snapshot of a country's crises.
