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Ohio tea party member flies Confederate flag during racist rant at school board meeting | The Raw Story

Ohio tea party member flies Confederate flag during racist rant at school board meeting | The Raw Story:

Ohio tea party member flies Confederate flag during racist rant at school board meeting

Sonny Thomas via Springboro Tea Party


 Springboro, Ohio residents are up in arms after a member of the local tea party unfurled a Confederate flag at a meeting of the town’s school board Thursday. According to Huffington Post, Sonny Thomas, who bills himself as the president and founder of theSpringboro Tea Party was protesting the removal of a set of religiously-themed and ideologically slanted classes from the district’s summer curriculum.
Thomas, who has a history of racist and inflammatory statements, reportedly gave an impassioned defense of the classes, which were intended for parents and children. The summer courses were sponsored by the Institute of the Constitution, an offshoot group from right-