Huffpost Black Voices – Spoken Edition

A Houston student was suspended from school for refusing to stand during the pledge of allegiance. India Landry, a high school senior at Windfern High School, was kicked out on Monday after refusing to stand for the pledge and wasn’t allowed to return to classes for the majority of the week,KHOU reports. India says she has been sitting during the pledge for years, but it wasn’t until the National Football League protests began that the school took issue with it.