INDIA LANDRY FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT OVER ILLEGAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE EXPULSION

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Recently, a Texas teen filed a federal lawsuit against her high school after she was kicked out for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. 

According to the New York Daily News, India Landry sat out the pledge hundreds of times since her freshman year at Windfern High School in Houston, Texas, but the senior was only recently reprimanded because [white?] school officials have "been whipped into a frenzy” over NFL players protesting injustice and police violence during the national anthem. 

Though other students across the country have also joined in the protests, the 17-year-old said she didn’t stand “because it goes against everything I believe in.” 

“I don’t think that the flag is what it says it’s for, for liberty and justice and all that,” Landry told Houston’s KHOU. “It’s not obviously what's going on in America today.”

Though the Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that forcing students to stand for the pledge and anthem violates their constitutional rights, India said the principal, Martha Strother, threatened, “If your mom does not get here in five minutes, the police are coming

Given the recent spate of brutality and extrajudicial killings by police, India’s mother was worried about her daughter’s safety.

THE KKK & NEO-NAZI's ARE RIGHT. THE FLAG IS MORE THEIRS THAN ANYONE ELSE'S. If they get shot while unarmed, police are a lot more likely to be held accountable because their lives count under that flag.

In a country where white people can call the police on a kid for not standing for the pledge of allegiance -- when a 1943 supreme court ruling says she doesn't have to stand -- that flag is getting closer and closer to NOT standing for a thing except white racism

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