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Outrage at Colorado high school football team's fans for flying a Confederate flag and spewing racist slurs at the other team

By Keith Griffith

Daily Mail
September 24, 2017

A high school principal has claimed that a football game was disrupted when the opposing team brought a Confederate flag and racially taunted his students, despite denials from officials at the other school.

Nick Dawkins, the principal of Manual High School in Denver, shared the shocking story in a letter to parents following the Manual Thunderbolts' Friday home game versus the Weld Central Rebels.

'Last night, the Weld Central High School team, which has a Rebel mascot, displayed a Confederate flag during the first quarter of the game, offending many members of the Manual community. We asked them to remove the flag and they did so,' Dawkins wrote.

However, Weld County athletic director Scott Richardson told 7News Denver that Weld officials never saw a Confederate flag at the game and that the flag is banned from their sporting events.

'I didn't see any Confederate flags, and I asked the coaches and they said they didn't see any flags,' Richardson said. 'If we did see it we would have asked our fans to put it away because we banned the flags.'

The Weld principal also said that some of his school's players had reported that Weld players had 'taunted them with racial slurs' during tackles.

Dawkins also said that three Manual players were injured during the game, but are receiving treatment and will be fine.

Manual's student body is 29 percent black and 6 percent white, according to state data. At Weld Central, located 40 miles northeast of Denver, the student demographics are 58 percent white and less than 1 percent black.

At both schools, Hispanic students make up most of the rest of the student bodies.

There were no photos of the Confederate flag incident available, and local Fox affiliate KDVR reported that parents from both schools had emailed saying the incident did not happen the way Dawkins described it.

Weld Central's mascot, a Civil War-era soldier, has generated controversy in recent weeks.

Two petitions, one calling for the abolition of the Rebel mascot and one calling for its preservation, circulated in August, as tensions boiled nationwide over Confederate memorials.

'Regardless of the reason why a school started 100 years after the Civil War in Colorado would choose to use Confederate symbols for a mascot, it's disrespectful to people of color and aggrandizes a movement that is abhorrent,' Emma Locke wrote on the petition calling for the mascot's removal.

But many in the small farming community of Keenesburg, where Weld Central is located, expressed emotional ties to the mascot and strongly oppose its abolition.

'Growing up here and still living in the area not once did I ever associate the Rebel mascot with any thing other than a symbol of unity, of a band of brothers and sisters united together toward a common goal,' alumnus Stan Roskop wrote on Facebook as the controversy flared.

'I have often stated that I am a Weld Central Rebel , my children are Weld Central Rebels, and my grand children will be Weld Central Rebels.'

The Rebels beat the Thunderbolts 48 to 12 in Friday's game.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I suspect what’s really bugging Manual is that the Rebels trounced them 48-12.