An 11-year-old student was arrested after refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and allegedly telling a teacher that “the flag is racist and the national anthem is offensive to black people,” according to reports.
The boy, a student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Fla., was charged with disrupting a school function and resisting arrest without violence for the Feb. 4 outburst, according to Bay News 9.
He was also issued a three-day suspension.
His mother, Dhakira Talbot, said officials took things too far by arresting her son, who she said is in gifted classes and has been bullied in the past.
“My son has never been through anything like this. I feel like this should’ve been handled differently,” she said. “If any disciplinary action should’ve been taken, it should’ve been with the school. He shouldn’t have been arrested.”
The classroom kerfuffle happened when a substitute teacher, Ana Alvarez, ordered the boy to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
When he told her he believed the flag was racist and the anthem was offensive, Alvarez asked him “why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” the teacher said in a statement to the school district.
The teacher said he replied, “they brought me here.”
Alvarez then told him, “Well you can always go back, because I came here from Cuba and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore I would find another place to live.”
She said she resorted to calling the main office “because I did not want to continue dealing with him.”
Because they were told that it would fix everything, and they believed it.
Ayden Ward
People who do this need to be shot.
Caleb Miller
I pledge allegiance to absolutely nothing, and if I was going to be in allegiance with something, it sure as fuck would NOT be America or it's flag.
I think this country is a piece of shit.
Zachary Torres
there wasn't any 'political protest'. it happened at his school, and nobody is required to receive the pledge of allegiance.
Wyatt Hall
recite* (accidental typo)
Landon Taylor
Indeed. That substitute teacher was a retard. That school is gonna get the shit sued out of them for having him arrested for nothing.
Alexander Allen
What country would you rather live in?
Michael Nelson
The teacher is Cuban. We're about to see a very interesting thing happen. This little shit probably grew up with a roof and running water and electricity. The teacher fled a communist shithole
Isaiah Hughes
they both should go back
Liam Jenkins
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If you have such a big problem with the US, either do something to make a change or feel free to fucking leave. We won't miss you.
I pledge allegiance to freedom and guns. Which by the way was what our Founders intended for America.
Justin Gonzalez
No, we're not. I'd bet money this shit happens all the time, but you never hear about it because no one is white.
Leo Thompson
Wo basically…
Camden Taylor
Liberals*
Carter Hall
New Zealand
Leo Lewis
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution being rewritten and modified every 19 years, just like Thomas Jefferson suggested.
Noah Sanders
Should little kids be this woke?
Jacob Carter
The substitute shouldn't have made it an issue in the first place. I don't stand for the flag because it's fascist indoctrination at its finest, but this has been a god-given right for everyone since the beginning of the United States (reinforced decade after decade by the Supreme court cases that come up about just this).
Evan Parker
Try again.
Gavin Edwards
I'm sure this is totally accurate information and not just more race baiting bullshit. Nevermind.
Sebastian Sanders
So he's a /leftyshit/ Oh that was clarified in title.
Austin Moore
Maybe you shouldn't have taught your son to be a nigger then.
While he's a nigger, he shouldn't be forced to pledge to any flag if he's not in the mood. Also he should've said that it's not really a pledge to America, but to Israel since we're basically their slave at least until the economy collapses.
Nice try, I'm sure there is some sort of world record that could corroborate your claim though, go look it up proving me wrong would be that easy!
Ryan Allen
bump
Matthew Long
Most Cubans are very appreciative of American values and culture, and proud to be in America. Some SJWs must've gotten to them and indoctrinated them.
Landon Murphy
What keeps you from going there?
Nicholas Stewart
I'm not even mad at the kid. He's a kid; kids say and do stupid things. I'm mad at his parents, and for all the overreacting dipshit adults who blew things way out of proportion. Then again, I don't have the whole story and the kid could have been raising a shitstorm while everyone else was trying to recite the pledge, as niglets are prone to doing.
Benjamin Robinson
Parents today are cowardly. They spoil and coddle their children. In my day, I was AFRAID of my parents, because I so much looked at them the wrong way, they'd beat the shit out of me.
Dylan Clark
They where right to do so. You're a little asshole who deserves to be abused.
Kevin Nelson
I didn't stand for the pledge because it wasn't secular when that's part of what the country was founded on: not favoring any one religion. I'm not patriotic for the same reason I don't celebrate being male and for the same reason I don't celebrate being latino. My nationality, sex, and race are things that just happened out of pure chance. Part of being an American is being partriotic by appreciating what the ones that came before us have set up to allow for the lives we live today, but being American is also accepting and allowing peaceful protests. Sure, people defend our right to live the way we do, but part of our way of living is speaking out against what we think is right. Likewise, it's your right to inform them of what's true.
Bentley Richardson
brainwash early and it lasts longer
Austin Jackson
ultra news
Brandon Hughes
the Pledge of Allegiance is just a scam to sell flags
Cameron Flores
Don't they know Trump will fix it?
Noah Brooks
Did they ever touch you down there?
Julian Richardson
The niglet needed a solid kick in the face
Ryan Sullivan
...
Leo Evans
It's a distraction.
Gabriel Torres
and do you have anything of vaule to add to that society because if you don't they aren't accepting new members
Aiden Lee
That teacher is based, but having to bring in the cops shows how badly discipline has fallen. Time to bring back the strap.
Christian Long
hmm… maybe they should be more grateful, some of their ancestors also had the privilege of being impregnated by white men, increasing their IQ by 10 points (from 75 to 85). Slavery was the best thing that ever happened to black "people".
Dylan Morales
And the worst thing that happened to us.
Parker Reyes
Confirmed NEWS
Jose Carter
anti-slide
Mason Myers
Perhaps this little noglet could work in africa as a landmine clearer.
Nathaniel Bailey
stand for the flag or be arrested nigger. lmao. he did nothing wrong. what law was broken? pfff… gotta be fake news.
