View source for GoGreen58's Confederate Flag

====Date: [[:Category:2011|2011]] ====

====Region: [[:Category:United States|United States]] ====

====Subject: [[:Category:Free Speech|Free Speech]], [[:Category:Personal Opinion|Personal Opinion]] ====

====Medium: [[:Category:Decoration|Decoration]], [[:Category:Flag|Flag]]====

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'''Artist:''' Byron Thomas

'''Confronting Bodies:''' Housing Office of the University of South Carolina Beaufort

'''Dates of Action:''' 2011

'''Location:''' South Carolina, USA 

'''Description of Artwork:''' The Confederate Flag; unofficial symbol of the south that represented the US confederacy  <P>

'''The Incident:'''  19-year old University of South Carolina Beaufort student Byron Thomas (GoGreen58), decorated his window with a confederate flag after having done research and a school project on the symbol. He was directed to remove the flag from his window to avoid offending other people. A threat to his freedom of speech and his beliefs that the flag is merely a symbol of "southern pride", Thomas has since gone viral and posted a video of why he feels he shouldn't have to remove the flag and his plans to fight if he is forced to.    <P>

'''Results of Incident:''' Flag has been removed from Thomas's window.   <P>

'''Source:''' [http://www.islandpacket.com/2011/11/30/1881122/black-student-calls-confederate.html][http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/30/overheard-on-cnn-com-who-decides-whats-racist/]


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