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BURTON, Mich. (WJRT) - Back the Blue. Blue Lives Matter. For a few, it's tied in with supporting law authorization.
In any case, for others like a Flint mother, it takes on a very different significance.
"Indeed, we've been associated with the Black Lives Matter walks, and she's mindful of dark history and a portion of the occasions that have occurred and the things that have occurred at the Capitol most as of late," she said.
That why she says she was stunned when her 15-year-old little girl sent her a photograph Thursday of a Blue Lives Matter flag hanging in a study hall at Atherton High School, where she goes to class.
"She said she felt agitated and somewhat furious. Also, I revealed to her that I would deal with it," the mother said.
She connected with different guardians through web-based media to check whether she was overcompensating. Lobbyist and parent Johnie Franklin was one of numerous who saw the post.
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"At the point when you're bringing a political position into a homeroom, that is one-sided to the educator, or head or administrator political perspectives. That is not OK," said Franklin.
Two musings strike a chord when Franklin, the progression child of a cop and the VP of the Black Lives Matter part in Flint, sees those pictures and hears those words.
"I understand what it's for, to say that your piece of the group of a cop and you support them as an official," Franklin said.
However, as a Black man, the Blue Lives Matter banner likewise represents police severity against minorities.
"They know the antagonism that the banner brings. I promise it. However, the inquiry is the thing message would you say you are attempting to get across and what are you attempting to show a child out of that? Since they see that consistently when they go into the homeroom," Franklin said.
The parent said she had not contacted Atherton school chairmen about the banner by Friday evening. The Atherton Community Schools director didn't return messages looking for input Friday.
"That banner ought not be up in the school, since the entirety of our understudies have the right to be regarded upheld and safe," the mother said.
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