{"id":552879,"date":"2021-06-04T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552879"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:51:26","slug":"update-oregon-school-board-shoots-down-blm-pride-flag-requirement-progressive-board-member-goes-on-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-oregon-school-board-shoots-down-blm-pride-flag-requirement-progressive-board-member-goes-on-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Oregon School Board Shoots Down BLM, Pride Flag Requirement, Progressive Board Member Goes On Tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fupdate-oregon-school-board-shoots-down-blm-pride-flag-requirement-progressive-board-member-goes-on-tirade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BLM-Protesters.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>An Oregon school board shot down an updated policy that would have mandated classrooms in the Gresham-Barlow school district to display Black Lives Matter and \u201cprogressive pride\u201d flags or posters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On May 6, the Gresham-Barlow School Board updated the district\u2019s \u201cFlag Displays and Salutes\u201d policy to require that the school board provide an American flag, pride flag, and BLM flag for each classroom. The policy gained virtually no support among board members. Just two of the board\u2019s most progressive members voted in favor of the revised policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Robyn Stowers, a school board member in favor of the flag policy, launched into a tirade about the alleged importance of the flags before the board took a vote. She began by apologizing to students for the \u201ctraumatic experience\u201d of having to debate a flag policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a board member, I would like to apologize to our students for this traumatic experience. All students deserve to be seen, heard, and respected. Your identities and your human rights should not be up for public debate,\u201d Stowers said. \u201cThe intention of this policy is to create safe, welcoming, inclusive spaces for all students. To do that, we must first accept that not all students in this district have the privilege [of] feeling safe and represented in the classroom environment. We must accept and understand that institutional racism and oppression is real so that we can take the steps to eradicate them from our schools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stowers continued by listing the reasons why the American flag is inappropriate to fly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe United States is not perfect,\u201d Stowers said. \u201cUnder the American flag, there is a history of attempted genocide of Native Americans, stolen land, broken treaties, Native American boarding schools, enslavement of black people, segregation, Jim Crow, police brutality, Japanese internment camps, Chinese exclusion act, forced acts of sterilization, anti-LGBTQ laws, exploitation of migrant workers, and other human rights violations at the southern border, just to name a few.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the end of her tirade, Stowers claimed that having the progressive pride flag would \u201cliterally save lives\u201d and played the \u201cBlack National Anthem\u201d for the school board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Opponents of the policy claimed that the BLM flag represented a political message and it was not the job of schools to side with a political organization. School board member Blake Peterson said he found the embrace of BLM to be \u201cinappropriate.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think there are valid perspectives within our community that the BLM flag, in particular, is representative of an organization with clear objectives. Some of those are pronouncedly political objectives, and I think it\u2019s inappropriate for us to side with an [political] organization.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another opponent, school board member Mayra G\u00f3mez, said that she did not believe the flags would impact students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think that flags are going to make a difference,\u201d G\u00f3mez said. \u201cOur students know when we care about them. Our students know who their true allies are. And I\u2019m not going to be a part of creating a culture of fake allies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The school board voted down the policy along a 5-2 margin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the no vote, Stowers berated her colleagues for not supporting BLM or the LGBT community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would like clarification on what exactly,\u201d Stowers asked. \u201cIs it the BLM flag? Or is it the LGBT communities that you don\u2019t support? Or is it both?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-oregon-school-board-may-require-classrooms-to-fly-blm-pride-flags\"><b>Watch: Oregon School Board May Require Classrooms To Fly BLM, Pride Flags<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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