How a confederate flag painted on
a rock could cost a mom her kid
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/7/2021 11:09:21 PM
A New York mom is caught between a rock and an appellate court. The upstate woman has been told she needs to ditch a driveway decoration painted with a confederate flag or risk losing custody of her mixed race child—even though a family court judge didn’t consider it to be an issue when it was raised during trial. “Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child’s best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world
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A rock most divisive. Some doubt that we're living in Clown World, if not full-on end times.