Today we're talking about Hurricane Idalia sinking Florida.

The debate over this boy's backpack making national news.

Credit card companies don't think people are paying enough.

People are banning kids and killing dogs.

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Is it racist? Da- online right now are debating, is this image racist? Right, because at the center of

this story, you got a 12-year-old boy who showed up to his Colorado Springs Public Charter School with a patch

featuring this on his backpack. And if you're unfamiliar, it's the Gadsden flag, right? That famous image of the rattlesnake with the words,

don't tread on me emblazoned across the bottom.

And while it actually originated as an anti-British symbol

during the Revolutionary War, it has since been appropriated by a bunch of right-wing and libertarian groups.

Though notably, that also including some white supremacists. school reportedly asked him to remove the patch and when he didn't he was removed from class. Now bringing us to a meeting between the kid's mom and the school's assistant principal

in which the latter says,

The reason you do not want to fly this way is due to its origins with the

revolutionary slavery and slave trade.

And the mom then counters,

It has nothing to do with slavery.

That's like the revolutionary war patch that was enslaved when they were fighting the British.

I am here to enforce the policy that was provided by the district.

Okay.

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