DailyKenn.com — Where the Confederate flag goes, the American flag follows, so it seems.
Presently, in upstate New York, a woman must choose between keeping her daughter or a "pet" rock that is decorated with Confederate-flag imagery.
The daughter is described by the media as multiracial leaving us to presume the woman is White and the father is Black. The daughter is held in joint custody.
The Confederate rock reportedly sits in the front lawn of the woman's home near her driveway.
Take aways...
• The Confederate rock is not in the girl's best interest, the judge said. How long before the stars-and-stripes are considered not in a child's best interest?
• We wonder if a rainbow flag was ever determined by a judge to not be in the best interest of a child?
• Where are the "feminists?"
Excerpted from washingtonpost.com ▼
A rock near a woman’s driveway in Upstate New York could affect the custody case of her multiracial daughter. But it is not the rock itself that is potentially risking a mother’s custody of her child. It is what’s decorated on the rock: The Confederate flag.
Appellate justices with the New York Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a Tompkins County woman to remove the Confederate flag-painted rock or risk a “change in circumstances” to the child custody case of her young daughter.
Justice Stanley Pritzker wrote in the unanimous 5-0 decision that while the woman, identified only as Christie BB, was protected under the First Amendment to display the Confederate flag, the rock’s presence through June 1 would force the court to reconsider the joint custody she has with the girl’s father.
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