{"id":4259,"date":"2011-03-07T17:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:23:45","slug":"bus-driver-suspended-for-flying-confederate-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"Bus Driver Suspended For Flying Confederate Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRANTS PASS, Ore. &#8212; <strong>Ken Webber<\/strong> wears his redneck heart out in the open, for all to see. On his right arm a red, white and blue tattoo depicts his skin ripped open to reveal an American flag and the words &#8220;100 percent American.&#8221; On his left, the tears reveal a Confederate flag and the words &#8220;Pure Redneck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So when <strong>Webber<\/strong> was told to surrender the Confederate flag that flies from the CB antenna on his pickup truck &#8212; or be suspended from his job driving a school bus in Talent &#8212; the choice was easy.<\/p>\n<p>Webber chose his flag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My flag will fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one here is gonna tell me what I can and can&#8217;t believe in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Webber<\/strong>, 28, of Medford drives the kindergarten bus for Talent Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>He has been driving for First Student Inc., which contracts buses for the Phoenix-Talent School District, for the past four years. He also attends community college and is married with four young children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Webber <\/strong>got the Confederate battle flag, emblazoned with the word Redneck, as a birthday present in 2009 from his dad, and has been flying it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>But last month, school Superintendent <strong>Ben Bergreen<\/strong> saw it on <strong>Webber&#8217;s<\/strong> truck parked at the school bus yard in Talent and told <strong>Webber&#8217;s<\/strong> supervisor the flag had to go, or <strong>Webber <\/strong>had to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRANTS PASS, Ore. &#8212; Ken Webber wears his redneck heart out in the open, for all to see. On his right arm a red, white and blue tattoo depicts his skin ripped open to reveal an American flag and the words &#8220;100 percent American.&#8221; On his left, the tears reveal a Confederate flag and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}