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Naacp in Lee county, FL has, for several years been after the portrait of Lee in the courthouse, and the statue outside of it.
Today they renewed their calls for taking down the statue.......How long until we have to spend half a billion to rename the county?
Somewhere, we have all slipped into bizzarro world.
CN.......
They won't have to rename the county, they can do what Washington did. King County WA was named after vice president William R. King, they decided that wasn't appropriate and just decided that it was really named after Martin Luther King and changed the county logo. They'll just decide it's really named after Spike Lee or somethingm take down 1 portrait and spend a few million patting themselves on the back.
I've always had mixed feelings on the flag. If it's a southern person I looked at it as southern pride, northerners as a symbol of hate.
True story years ago I saw a hate group with the flag and told my parents they must be Dukes of Hazzard fans without knowing the past.
As someone that grew up in New York State, I don't know of any northerner that saw it as a "symbol of hate" in the 60s/70s/80s/early 90s. Everyone I knew saw it as a symbol of independence or rebelliousness. The whole "symbol of hate", "symbol of racism" thing is a new development, especially over the last 5 years or so. All part of the hatred some liberals have for their fellow countrymen.
I didn't know there were so many confederate sympathizers around in the United States in this day and age. Many conversations I've had with southerners about the Civil War often end the same. They refuse to acknowledge that slavery had anything to do with the Civil War. They will cite, "State's Rights", but it was State's Rights over the right to have slavery, no?
I found this article to be very informing, even for people who are already accepting of what actually transpired during the Civil War.
The thing is, when the Dukes of Hazzard came out (late 70s, early 80s IIRC) the Confederate Battle Flag wasn't considered a racist symbol. If it had been, it never would have had the prominence it did on national TV. It's only in the last 5 years or so that leftist nutjobs have gone on and on bleating that it's a "symbol of racism". And the weak-mined sheep followed along
What's next, eliminating American Indian symbols and heritage because they waged war on the US?
It was a symbol of racism then.
It's a symbol of racism now.
Just accept it and join the 21st century.
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