If we are going to look for perfect people to honor outside of Jesus Christ who would we honor ?

 

IMO, no one is worthy after Jesus Christ. He is the true perfect person and no one else comes close. Why do we have to honor anyone besides Him? Not being a smart aleck. Asking an honest question.

IMO, no one is worthy after Jesus Christ. He is the true perfect person and no one else comes close. Why do we have to honor anyone besides Him? Not being a smart aleck. Asking an honest question.

 

Honor accomplishments not worship. For example I think Thomas Jefferson is the greatest political mind this country has known. I appreciate that brilliance and think it deserves honor. I also know from studying his history his many personal faults. But I'm able to separate his personal faults from his political triumphs.

 

I honestly just don't understand this culture feeling the need to be offended by everything.

 

Christians , Muslims, minorities , LGBT ..... anybody and everybody is offended by everything.

You mistake my point. I'm not a fan of the Confederacy. I'm just sick of the culture of everyone being offended by everything.

 

I know, I wasn't talking about your views specifically. But, I just don't know what that last sentence means other than "here's a list of things that were popular in the past but if you want to discuss them now I'll call you a crybaby."

I know, I wasn't talking about your views specifically. But, I just don't know what that last sentence means other than "here's a list of things that were popular in the past but if you want to discuss them now I'll call you a crybaby."

 

What is happening now isn't a discussion. People in today's world are allergic to fruitful and educational discussions.

 

Everyone is either good or evil. There is no room for grey anymore.

George Washington was a slave owner should we rename D.C.

 

There are people in this nation who would say yes.

George Washington was a slave owner should we rename D.C.

 

So was Jefferson (county where Louisville is). So were many blacks in Africa that sold their slaves to the whites-an interesting part of history that has been completely neglected.

Martin Luther King offends some people too, but there is a street in every city named after him.

So was Jefferson (county where Louisville is). So were many blacks in Africa that sold their slaves to the whites-an interesting part of history that has been completely neglected.

 

This is a very good point.

 

I would also like to point out that there is a long history of slavery in Africa. Blacks having other blacks enslaved. The tribe that my daughters are of were the slave tribe in Ethiopia. Slavery in Africa lasted much, much longer than it did in the USA. Slavery in Ethiopia was not abolished until 1942.

This is a very good point.

 

I would also like to point out that there is a long history of slavery in Africa. Blacks having other blacks enslaved. The tribe that my daughters are of were the slave tribe in Ethiopia. Slavery in Africa lasted much, much longer than it did in the USA. Slavery in Ethiopia was not abolished until 1942.

 

Doesn't change anything that happend here in America.

Doesn't change anything that happend here in America.

 

But it does give a much more profound understanding of the subject matter than people are accustomed to.

Letter: BCHS's Rebel from James Dean movie

 

How can a supposedly reputable newspaper print something so profoundly incorrect without checking facts? The Forum piece from Akilah Hughes is absolutely full of misinformation and outright lies.

 

I am a graduate of Boone County High School and also taught there for 15 years (beginning in the late 1980s). My husband was the original Mr. Rebel. While there were Confederate flags being used at the school in the 1970s and 1980s, he was instrumental in getting the Confederate flag removed from the school (resulting in no backlash) and replacing it with the blue Rebel flag. During school events, both Mr. Rebel and the administration confiscated Confederate symbols from students. Mr. Rebel never posed in front of a Confederate flag. My husband fashioned the Mr. Rebel mascot from the one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1990.

 

When questions arose in the 1990s about the Rebel nickname, Mr. Rebel researched it and found that the first graduating class in 1955 chose the name “rebels” because of the James Dean movie “Rebel Without a Cause.” The name is sanctioned by the Civil Rights Office – we still have the letter from them framed and hanging in our home.

 

I never witnessed any of the false allegations Hughes presents in all my years as a student or teacher. Rebel Pride T-shirts were worn in support of our high school, not in support of the Confederacy. To imply that this was such a reference is beyond ludicrous. The assumptions she makes about fellow students, both then and now, are totally without any basis in fact.

 

For The Enquirer to publish such a racist article does nothing to create diversity and peace, but rather fosters more division and controversy. Racism works both ways.

 

Judi Deatherage, Villa Hills

 

Letter: BCHS?s Rebel from James Dean movie

Doesn't change anything that happend here in America.

 

Trying to give you the perspective that the USA doesn't have the market cornered on slavery. Obviously we got it right, quicker.

 

I would also say it means a heck of a lot to my daughters.

Sorry, but I think this is nothing more than someone trying to get attention over half truths than anything else.

 

The reason I say this? If her time at BCHS was so horrible as she tries to point out in her article, then why on earth would she fly into Cincinnati/NKY to attend a class reunion where she felt so discriminated against while here? Sorry, if I was ever tortured mentally beyond the point of having any fond memories of that time in my life, I sure in the heck wouldn't be hurrying back to the same place that gave me such torment during such an impressionable time in my life and growth.

 

Sorry, I don't buy it. When she states she was forced to cheer for a "Rebel" at pep rally's but wasn't allowed to wear a shirt that said Hug me I'm black....sorry something about that sounds totally made up.

 

She is out to get attention and wouldn't have even bothered making up the story if it wasn't for what occured in Charleston SC.

 

If you are that traumatized, then don't be an idiot and go running back to the place that you have such horrible memories about.

 

Ms Hughs is a perfect example of Race Baiting which she may have been able to succeed to anyone not familiar with BCHS to buy her line of cow manure, but anyone familiar with the school and especially the time frame she talks about being a student there knows her story should be put on the shelf of all the other fiction stories floating around.

Letter: BCHS's Rebel from James Dean movie

 

How can a supposedly reputable newspaper print something so profoundly incorrect without checking facts? The Forum piece from Akilah Hughes is absolutely full of misinformation and outright lies.

 

I am a graduate of Boone County High School and also taught there for 15 years (beginning in the late 1980s). My husband was the original Mr. Rebel. While there were Confederate flags being used at the school in the 1970s and 1980s, he was instrumental in getting the Confederate flag removed from the school (resulting in no backlash) and replacing it with the blue Rebel flag. During school events, both Mr. Rebel and the administration confiscated Confederate symbols from students. Mr. Rebel never posed in front of a Confederate flag. My husband fashioned the Mr. Rebel mascot from the one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1990.

 

When questions arose in the 1990s about the Rebel nickname, Mr. Rebel researched it and found that the first graduating class in 1955 chose the name “rebels” because of the James Dean movie “Rebel Without a Cause.” The name is sanctioned by the Civil Rights Office – we still have the letter from them framed and hanging in our home.

 

I never witnessed any of the false allegations Hughes presents in all my years as a student or teacher. Rebel Pride T-shirts were worn in support of our high school, not in support of the Confederacy. To imply that this was such a reference is beyond ludicrous. The assumptions she makes about fellow students, both then and now, are totally without any basis in fact.

 

For The Enquirer to publish such a racist article does nothing to create diversity and peace, but rather fosters more division and controversy. Racism works both ways.

 

Judi Deatherage, Villa Hills

 

Letter: BCHS?s Rebel from James Dean movie

 

I was going to post this today after I read it last night. I was a big fan of Mr. Deatherage when I was at BCHS. He was such a great guy and many were bummed when he hung up the mascot uniform. He still would bring it out for major occasions, player's senior nights for example.

 

Glad she wrote this letter!

Being born and raised in the Mississippi delta, I am surprised to learn that there are schools in Kentucky that use(d) the Confederate flag and the rebel as symbols for the mascot. As we all know, Kentucky was not part of the Confederacy.