Confederacy-loving student shown in viral flip-off photo kicked out of Christian college

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




SARAH K. BURRIS
21 AUG 2017 AT 11:06 ET

Allen Armentrout of Pensacola, Florida was kicked out of school after he wore a Confederate uniform to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Video footage revealed Armentrout dressed in the uniform, carrying a Confederate flag and saluting a statue of Robert E. Lee, according to the Pensacola News Journal. A crowd surrounded chanting “terrorist go home” as he stood motionless.

He told the paper that he wanted to make the trip to Virginia because he wanted to take back the history of his ancestors he felt the KKK and Nazis were misinterpreting. He said he hoped to share “the true history” of the South and push back against Neo-Nazis he feels have wrongly “latched on” to Confederate history.

“I went up there to represent what I believe is right,” he told the News Journal.




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[dalton99a]

1. The boy ain't too bright

Idiot.

[lastlib]

27. Kick him out of Cub Scouts, too!

[DownriverDem]

2. For the last 150+ years

The south has been trying to change the history of the Civil War and why they started it. The secession documents for each of the southern states explains very clearly what they were fighting for. Besides states rights means that the states have the right to do what they want. And for the south that was to keep slavery.

Every time I think of the south and slavery, I just want to puke. I would never live there.

[liquid diamond]

23. Same here. I'd never set foot in a southern state.

I don't know why some people are proud of that region of America considering its fucked up history and continuous racism against POC.

[GulfCoast66]

24. Well. That is your loss.

What other areas of the country or world will you not set foot?

Fortunately, millions of people have learned that my adopted state of Florida has places that are priceless.

And my home state of Louisiana has one of the most iconic cities and cultures in the US.

Have a nice evening.

[PNW-Dem]

28. Slavery in enexpected places...

Unfortunately, you would have to exclude a lot of the United States. “Fun fact”, did you know that there were slaves in New York?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York

[Botany]

3. I went up there to represent what I believe is right, he told the News Journal.

“I went up there to represent what I believe is right,” he told the News Journal.

Like owning human beings as slaves?

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/n-c-man-in-confederate-uniform-with-rifle-in-emancipation/article_8fece36c-81c8-11e7-9a3c-bb3e2637cc8d.html

[winstars]

4. They might wanna go back to wearing those pillow cases over their heads... FUCK THEM!!!

[IronLionZion]

5. So racists think that woman goes around flipping off overweight nerds

and it has nothing to do with him wearing the uniform and waving the flag of people who fought a bloody war against the United States in order to continue ownership of human beings as property?

Seems legit.

[obamanut2012]

14. Of course it was a woman's fault

I read that and was like wth?!

He also had an AR-15 slung over his shoulder, so he was also armed. A week after teh Nazi assaults and murder.

[IronLionZion]

18. He has to defend himself from unarmed women

who are obviously more deadly than you could possibly understand. It's dangerous out there.

[secondvariety]

20. He also

was packing a pistol. What an ass.

[LakeArenal]

21. Yea, well, the cop is just as bad...

Calls the racist with the rifle sir, the blames the finger woman as the problem.

[Aristus]

6. If you really want to do it right, Confederacy boy,

eat grass and acorns, just like your ancestors did, doing what they believed was right...

[riversedge]

7. He got his schooling from RW websites. And probably will continue to do so now. Sad

[Runningdawg]

8. Don't worry son

the military will still take you, that is if you live past basic training in the pork chop platoon.

[ProgressiveValue]

11. That would end up being a redo of the first part of Full Metal Jacket.

Private Pyle

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. Private Butterball! Report immediately to the brig!

What a specimen.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. (cough)(cough)

Wouldn't he be too obsese to pass the army medical ? I believe it was a recruitment problem a few decades ago. I wonder if they give the troops a better diet in the services. Not force-feeding them corn syrup and what have you.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Fat, Nazi and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

I'm not picking on him because he is chunky. I'm picking on him because he looks like Kent Dorfman who, by the way, would never be a Nazi.

[smirkymonkey]

15. He does!

Remarkable likeness!

[obamanut2012]

13. Why would he do that, armed, a week after the murder and Nazi riot there???

Fuck this kid.

[Grins]

16. In the ever-memorable words....

"Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps." - John "Bluto" Blutarsky.

[thucythucy]

25. Remember though, "Bluto" went on to have a distinguished career in the United States Senate. nt.

[obamachangetheworld]

17. What a stupid individual...

Sounds like he was brainwashed by the alt-Right terrorist recruiters who push the idea that the Civil War was about anything other than the perpetuation of slavery.

[politicat]

19. Wow. Pensacola Christian College? I'm actually surprised.

PCC has a rep. They're a known broken stair in the Christians who criticize the practice of Evangelical Christianity world. Anyone who has read Love Joy Feminism, Slacktivist, Sam Fields, or No Longer Quivering knows that any post with PCC in it is going to be harrowing -- sexual assault, misogyny, racism, more racism, back for seconds on the misogyny, homophobia, and a doggy bag of racism to take home.

[Yonnie3]

22. People keep saying it was a week after the deadly rally.

I don't know where that is coming from. Heather Heyer Died Saturday and he was here Tuesday morning. Her memorial service was Wednesday. Feelings were still raw.

[catbyte]

26. I think I recognize him--isn't he the fine young lad who could only button the top

button on his silly "reb" uniform?" "Fat, drunk, & stupid is no way to go through life, son."