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Supporters can still use stickers and other decals. I prefer to know what kind of person I'm dealing with in this issue so I don't particularly have a problem with it decals. http://http://www.usatoday.com/story...ates/27605915/
I have an issue with the Confederate flag. The Civil was was 150 years ago. It's not the American flag and is supportive of slavery, racism and other issues. No one alive was around during the Civil war, and very, very few who are alive know someone who was in the was (who would have been in their 60's or 70's when they were born).
Ok you need to expound on your main point better. The Supreme Court didnt block the confederate flag license plate. They said that an image on a plate is a government speech not individual speech. The State of Texas had rejected this application so they can do so. That was the ruling.
Poor choice of words. The Supreme Court did not block the symbol on the license plate. It simply allowed Texas to choose what it displayed on the plate. Texas chooses not to display a confederate flag or more specifically, a vanity plate for the Sons of Confederate Veterans that incorporates a confederate battle flag.
Symbols mean different things to different cultures. In the end its just some paint, dye, cloth or whatever. Its really not a big deal except to a few who seem easily outraged by a lot of things.
No, the license plate was not blocked by the United States Supreme Court - it was blocked by the State of Texas.
Supporters of the plate then sued, claiming that their Constitutional rights were being violated by the State of Texas. The United States Supreme Court merely found that there is no freedom of speech on license plates, and so Texas could (not had to - could) decline to offer a license plate featuring the Confederate flag.
Frankly, it's sad that there are people who want that disgusting symbol of treason in the name of slavery. And, to the revisionist, yes, the southern states seceded because of slavery. We know this because the states took pains to state their grievances when they seceded, and those declarations of secession go on and on about preserving slavery as the reason behind their seceding. In the Cornerstone Speech, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens explicitly stated as much, and I quote, "The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.". Further, the facts that the Confederacy put down a secession attempt in eastern Tennessee (which held a convention to secede from the Confederacy and rejoin the Union - only to be invaded by the Confederate Army) and included in its constitution a clause explicitly forbidden any state from ever outlawing slavery show beyond all doubt that the nonsense about states' rights was utter bunk that none of them ever believed (that was later historical revisionism invented by the mired-in-the-past Lost Causers).
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