Prom 2012: Tennessee Teen Kicked Out Over Confederate Prom Dress… [PHOTOS]

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Apr, 25 2012 | Written by ATLien
A Tennessee teen is in the news today after her “confederate flag” dress caused her to be banned from her High School Prom.

Texanna Edwards, pictured above in her show stopping dress paired with flip flops, apparently knows how to make an entrance.

Edwards is a senior at Gibson County High School in Dyer, Tenn., and when she arrived to prom with a dress featuring a pattern of the Confederate flag, school officials promptly turned Edwards away.

But why?

School officials advised ~~Daisy Duke~~ Texanna that she could return if she changed her dress but she refused, and says she’s at a loss as to why her dress was considered “offensive and inappropriate.”

And according to ~~Kim Zolciak~~ Texana, all you Black people loved it!

“We kept asking people walking inside — black and white — and everyone said they loved it,” Edwards claims.

“Two black women even went off on the principal. They were upset with the principal. No one was upset with me.”

But contrary to her story, School officials say she had been warned about two months ago that the dress might not be acceptable.

Since there have been race issues at the school in the past, a teacher, who served as prom sponsor, expressed concern and suggested to Edwards in February that she should clear the idea with the principal first, but Edwards failed to do so.

Eddie Pruett, director of schools for the Gibson County Special School District, spoke on behalf of Principal James Hughes, who felt Edwards’ dress could have caused a huge problem.

She was told because of the dress and what it would look like, it would be considered inappropriate.

She had talked with the prom sponsor and they told her it would be inappropriate. … I feel like Hughes followed legal precedents set by other court cases. Students have legal rights, and we don’t infringe upon those.

But we have to follow legal precedents, and if there is a reason to believe something could happen, we don’t wait until after the fact to do something. (source)

Edwards claims she told several people about her idea and most liked it. According to her, it was only that one teacher who said the dress was a bad idea.

Personally, I’m more opposed to the flip flops than that “Dukes of Hazzard” dress. And on top of that, I’m almost positive we’ve seen worse dresses online and off.

😕 I’m just sayin…

If y’all can wear air force ones and stars & strips, why can’t ~~Yosemite Sam~~ Texanna rep the confederacy?

Hell… every teen in America has a God given right to express their individuality on Prom Night and in my opinion, ~~Tropicana~~ Texanna should have been no exception.

Should ~~Mark Furhman~~ Texanna have been banned from Prom for rocking her confederate dress?

Thoughts…

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In News Prom 2012
- Truth
  
  Alot of people view the Confederate flag as a symbol of southern pride, not associated with slavery. When Lil John was wearing it on his T-shirt there was no uproar from the black masses. So it shouldnt be any for this white girl. Her dress is way more tastefull than that tacky american flag outfit the couple has on, and she is way more covered up then some teenagers I see who thing prom dress means their mothers whore outfits.
- Tiffany
  
  Do you even know these people who prom pics you posting…Some of them are from Weequahic High School in Newark NJ….I just started reading this site, I do like it…but keep your drama in the A and not everywhere else.
- Dime diva
  
  Hillybilly PWT like kim z and her eldest daughter
- Taj
  
  I’m glad they told her to leave. I went to High School for a couple of years in Arkansas and those kids are not repping the confederacy! They are repping all that is racist and divided. Trust I know. That girl wore that for a reason and she was trying to make a statement and had nothing to do with "southern pride".
- Reesie
  
  She
- RyRy
  
  What more would you expect from a girl named TEXANNA? That’s very trailer…
- Reesie
  
  She shouldn’t have been kicked out. Not a big deal. Phony outrage.
- sheena
  
  She got what she deserved and the black women who thought it was cute are idiots. dummies probley didnt even know what it was
- keke
  
  I dunno why people still wear, raise the confederate flag black or white. Texanna looks inbred and the flip flops hella tacky. Those other pics look worse though I just don’t know how parents let their kids out the house like that.
- [email protected]
  
  Boy prom is not what is use to be. I am just looking through all of the photos and all of them should have been sent home for showing up in those dresses. What parent in their right mind would let their daughter leave the house in those dresses, especially the one wearing the white string she calls a dress. Just a hot mess all around.
- atl_cutie
  
  i dont know what type of culture they got out there in TN to dress like that on any day .. IJS … Where im from people dress their best to such an occassion, I had a ball at my prom, and noone was dressed in flags or flipflops … maybe if they carried them in the bc of hurting feet … LJS Im glad i didnt go to that school
- atl_cutie
  
  in fact the thought of me dressing patriotic at a ball didnt even cross my mind during prom, i was too busy trying to look cute 🙂
- Shawna
  
  Thank you Taj and Sheena for your comments. I’m happy that the school turned her away especially since she was told that the dress would be an issue. This young lady does not have a right to wear whatever she wants; she has to abide by the rules and regulations set forth by the school district, prom committee, etc. In my opinion, I think its sad that black people cannot realize the difference between "southern pride" and nods to past of hatred, discrimination and injustice…again, just my thoughts.
- Jay A Strizzy via Facebook
  
  Shit was ugly anyway
  
  Schrodinger’s Catboy
  
  Her Confederate Dress looked great! It was beautiful on an elegant, classy, refined Southern Lady. She represents all that is good and fine in the South. Those neo-Nazi Fascists who hate the Confederate Flag need to get the Hell out of this Country to where Nations can ban free Speech and free Expression. The ones who hate her Confederate Flag Dress are evil and sinister and really represent all that is horrid in this Nation. They do not like the First Amendment. She should sue the School for all it is worth.
- Nikki Brown via Facebook
  
  She can wear whatever she wants .. but she has to expect certain reactions from it .. and if she doesnt .. her parents shouldve ..
- Bugsy Simmons via Facebook
  
  I’d rather see her dress than some of those whorish outfits that get by.
- Nancy Kesler-coleman via Facebook
  
  Considering what some of the other girls wore she was fine,one girl looked like she had half a sheet on.Everything isn’t racist!!!!!
- Lena Townes via Facebook
  
  She should wear it, so its voted FUGLIEST dress ever.
- Tracy Cooper via Facebook
  
  She should not have been kicked out, I’ve seen way worst on these new kids. To each their own
- Natalie Woods via Facebook
  
  lol
- Erica Lee via Facebook
  
  It’s the message behind that flag that is the problem. History is very important.
- Stephanie Hosley via Facebook
  
  Many girls show up to prom looking like strippers. It was wrong of them to turn her away.
- Kennon Moss via Facebook
  
  It was racist, wtf y’all talking bout!”
  
  Schrodinger’s Catboy
  
  You are a Racist Pig.
- Rob Johnson via Facebook
  
  Oh hell no to those flip flops! Sorry but you can’t come in here with those!
- Nikki Brown via Facebook
  
  I think they turned her away to protect her … because of the history of that flag .. she couldve gotten herself hurt ..
- Hopearella Tullwhitenorris via Facebook
  
  That’s what she gets. I understand they see their history with it but they need to look at the other side and if they don’t know what it is, they need to research it.
- Mabel Foreverarose via Facebook
  
  The first thing I thought of when I saw the dress was..What type of views are her parents teaching her in regards to what the flag represent!?!? She looks innocent, but I’m more than positive there was some underline messiness going on…
- Victoria Baskin via Facebook
  
  Shame on her parents for even letting her wear that mess away from home! And besides.. That’s the ugliest damn dress I’ve ever seen in my life! Now if anything would be viewed ignorant and dumb.. it damn sure would be this! Not only does it seem like the kid need a role model.. But the parents do to!! #PITIFUL
- Shutiba Gray-samuels via Facebook
  
  The dress is an eye sore that’s why they kicked her out…. No fashion sense LOL.
- chrissy
  
  oooh, i wish her dumbass would wear this to the southside of chicago. these people are all about having one America united speaking one language with no foreigners yet they won’t let go of the confederate flag. bish, wear the stars and stripes!!! show your AMERICAN pride
  
  Schrodinger’s Catboy
  
  Being anti-Confederate is being anti-American, you Fascist neo-Nazi.
- kim
  
  She look old as hail….lol….looking like she gave berf to a litter of pups in 9 th grade….
- Tiffany Lovemyboo via Facebook
  
  It’s the flip flops that were so wrong
- Wilma Smith via Facebook
  
  She did it just for attention with her fat butt.
- Kevin Prince via Facebook
  
  who does this but a true red neck. She should of got kickied out of prom for wearing that dress. You know her mother made it.
- Carina Desiree Brooks-King via Facebook
  
  It was UGLY they were saving her from embarrassment
- Robin Gallagher via Facebook
  
  yes but why would she want to?????
- Imsurroundedbyidiots.com
  
  Keenan, Amen! I don’t see the difference between a Confederate flag and a swatzika (sp?). I don’t care how the other girls were dressed. This is a racist symbol and should have been banned. Let her come wear this to STL, so she can get her ass stomped.
- Gina Sharon Kirk via Facebook
  
  Yes she shud! A gurl”s prom is so important! Az important az a “Sweet 16 party, @ leaxt! Dis is wen u find urself! Maybe bad taste, but allowed! Gina in Atl! Shame on Skool!!!
- justmeek
  
  Michelle you are 1 ignorant self hating cow if you think that dress was ok to wear.Get your ugly,fat ass off the couch & from up under Cock Eyed Bob & go Read a History Book to see the meaning behind that Flag.Cause trust me anyone wearing a Confederate Flag sure isn’t going to Stick Up for your Black Ass.Just when I thought you couldn’t blog anymore Dumb Shit.And leave Kim out of this if you are ok with a Person wearing a Confederate Flag to Prom…Ugh you so Ugly & Dumb.
- justmeek
  
  And for you trying to embarrass those other young women by putting up their Prom Pictures,where is yours Mrs.Piggy? I bet you looked fatter & uglier than any of those girls you posted pics of.They probably had to use a Satin/Cotten Blend Bed Sheet to Make Your Dress.And for all you other "Women" saying that girls dress was ok y’all take your dumb uneducated country asses to the Library with Michelle’s wide as all outside ass & get you a History book too cause you seem just as dumb as her Shrek looking ass.
- td
  
  Some times stories posted on this site need no response. The ignorance speaks volumes on both sides (figure it out).
- Taj
  
  @ justmeek YOU sound ignorant on her blog bashing her when really NOONE forced you to come to this website. GTFOH!
- Kenya T.
  
  I would have banned her for wearing those flip flops to a prom! Redneck Princess needs to have every seat in the orchestra pit… Smh
- Hot Caddy Girl
  
  Trailer park trash!
- customcalendars4u2
  
  If you knew the history of the confederate flag you wouldn’t be asking such a dumb ass question. Hell even the higher ranking school officials knew how distasteful,controversial and damaging that choice of dress is and they are WHITE!!! So enough said and she should have been kicked out wearing that Flag to prom. That ISH is just as uncomfortable as if a Black couple showed up for the schools annual Halloween party adorned in Black FACE, dressed as raggedy ass slaves with matching nooses around their necks. GTFOH!
- versatile
  
  @Justmeek;you have a backed up toilet for a brain and yo’ shit is spilling out onto my screen. Can you please redirect it back up your azz?
- Buck Henry
  
  I’m glad they kicked her out, she was trying to send a statement and we all know what it was. The "black students" who thought it was okay need to get their heads examined. It was either a couple of light skinned blacks or interracial or a uncle tom/ aunt sally who thought that if I agree with them that it’s nice then I’m considered white yada yada yada self hatred at its best.
  
  Listen the black students who think nothing is wrong with it, this flag was a symbol of oppression for african americans and a symbol of treason against the federal govt.. After the Civil War you couldn’t find a confederate flag flying because it was being burned and destroyed for the damage it did and represented to the nation as a whole. At this time the whites used paramilitary forces and the democratic party (look it up) to make sure blacks didn’t vote and assassinate blacks in office. Because they where afraid blacks would take over and they had the population to do that.
  
  And so this flag was used to remind the whites what it gave them and the blacks to stay in their place. I bet if the black students who agreed had to deal with a society that not only made it okay to be racists and even act upon it, but to make it a crime for the offended black to respond in anyway. They never had to live in a south like that (or north in some places).
- Kamalla
  
  I applaud the school for kicking her dumb ass out. Listen, this is the United States of America and there is no confederacy nor confederate army and slavery has been abolished and women can vote. This girl has no idea what the confederacy stood for and apparently neither do many a dumb black person in the south. The very notion that any black person would support a confederate flag as a prom dress in the 2012 is just appauling and sad. Are blacks really that ignorant in the south?
  If she wanted to wear a flag she should have worn the American flag because that is where we are – AMERICA.
  Would it be okay for a an asian kid to wear a communist flag just because their parents may be of Chinese or North Korean ancestry? Could a black girl get away with a dress bearing Huey Newton’s image and the words black power underneath? There are certain places and events in which individual pride must take a back seat to the unification of all.
- Kamalla
  
  @justmeek WOW why do you hate ATLien/Michelle so much? What did she do to you? What did she NOT do? smh 😕
- justmeek
  
  To all those silly people above who commented on my post you most definitely fit into all those labels I listed.I don’t know this thing you Southern Slags refer to as the Atlien but I do know that she continues to defend bullshit while tearing down other people.To defend a person draped in a Confederate Flag as a African American Woman is Ignorant.Especially being from the South.I’m from the West Coast & even I know how much hate & hurt that Flag Represents And please she can dish it out so she can take.Besides she knows she isn’t cute that’s why her blogs towards so many women are about their looks.So you all may have several seats next to pigshelle’s ass \_.Plus ass a American I have Freedom of Speech & Opinion :).
- Sage X
  
  Those are some old looking teenagers….
  
  Some of you are so silly auguring over the fact that the hillbilly wore that ugly confederate dress because the American flag is really no better for Black people.I could care less about either flag.
- TonyanCali
  
  Seriously, I would expect no less from folks in TN.
- Shell
  
  She should have been banned for the flip flops alone!
- imagine_me
  
  I love all the name ATLien used..had me crackin up Daisy Duke, Yosomite Sam and my favorite Tropicana
- Forrest Overton
  
  This shit is fucked the hell up
- Ms.louisiana
  
  Funny how all of the pics SFTA posted have only one white person in them and all the rest are Black. NE way the dress was ugly and tacky. She should have done her research on the dress since she was informed that there may be an issue. She cant be mad at anyone but HERSELF. It wouldn’t have killed her to go to the Principal about the issue. Seems to me she thought she could get away with it so she went for it ignored the warning and she got shot down ohh well to bad better luck next time lesson learned..Charge it up to life and move on. Thank u
- Schrodinger’s Catboy
  
  Love the Dress! It looks beautiful! Sue that neo-Nazi Fascist School for everything they have for violating your Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Speech!
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