The Attorney General of Texas is standing with a school that has expelled teens for refusing to run for allegiance

It turns out that the president of the United States, old white men who wear pants with elastic belts and fans of the NFL are not the only ones to wonder about the national anthem.

In 2017, an African American high school student from Texas was deported because she refused to run for the promise of allegiance. According to the Houston Chronicle, Windfern High School alumna India Landry was inspired by NFL players who knelt during the national anthem to protest the murders of non-black men, women and children. armed. So she sat down during the promise of allegiance. Her teacher decided that Landry would not be able to honor the flag that she should be sent to the office.

When Windfern High School principal, Martha Strother, saw Landry sit down while the pledge of allegiance was playing over the intercom, she told him to get up . When Landry did not follow the orders, she was deported and told to leave school or Strother would call the police, which sounds a bit extreme, but it's Texas, which means that it's Jim Crow, America.

"I felt that the flag does not represent what it represents, freedom and justice for all and I do not feel what is happening in the country, so it was my choice to sit in silence," he said. Landry told the Chronicle. "It was a silent protest."

According to KUT News, the deportation was lifted a few days after his release and Landry was sent back to school with little or no explanation. Landry's mother, Kizzy Landry, who fully supported her daughter's decision not to run and say that she is not complaining, filed a lawsuit accusing "the director, the deputy director, the secretary and two teachers to violate Landry's rights to freedom of expression, equal protection and due process, and to put her away because she was black, "reports the Chronicle.

What does all this have to do with the Texas Attorney General? Nothing. But that did not stop Attorney General Ken Paxton from adding his voice to the mix and asserting that Landry's parents had the right to submit a statement by which their child was not a candidate for the engagement, but note that they have never submitted.

"The document mentions the" ancestral tradition "of standing up to honor the flag, citing a supreme statement that the government has an interest in preserving" the national flag as an undisputed symbol of our country, "reports the New York Daily News. .

"Schoolchildren can not unilaterally refuse to participate in the pledge," Paxton said in a statement, reports Chronicle. "The US Supreme Court has repeatedly held that parents have a fundamental interest in guiding the education and upbringing of their children, which is a critical aspect of constitutional freedom."

But his mother agrees with … Oh, that's right, is not about the facts.

Kizzy Landry told the Chronicle that her daughter's protest was very supportive.

"I support her 100% and I'm actually proud of her because some people are not going to defend something like that," she said. "Some people are afraid to do it. She is very brave.

Oh, Texas candidates are in November and I'm sure Paxton has nothing to do with this hot topic.