Some of you may have read national media reports about the suspension of Beaufort high school students for wearing clothing bearing Confederate flag emblems. School administrators claim that the suspensions were necessary to prevent a disruption of the school environment. As justification, they cited an incident wherein a student wearing a T-shirt with a Confederate flag logo was handing out recruiting leaflets for the Aryan Nation. Hall monitors had to intervene when other students angrily confronted this student. These media reports are true as far as they go, but they are only part of the story. As a journalist embedded … Continue reading Cultural Clash