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Sorry but I was a teen in the early 70s and everyone I knew at the time understood the confederate flag to be racist. Yeah, a lot of folks who liked to think of themselves as “rebels” had one in the back of their pick up truck but we all understood it to be racist. Of course folks were also more willing to openly admit to being racist in the 70s. That was a time before most democrats and republicans viewed each other as the enemy but more folks thought it acceptable to be openly racist and homophobic.
So was I, in the rural south, and no one understood the confederate flag to be racist. It stood for southern pride, rebellion and for the older folks it also stood for those ancestors who fought and died in the civil war and a remembrance of difficult times and loss for those in the communities where battles were actually fought.
Were some people racist, sure, but it had nothing to do with the flag.
Nope. LS got their start in the 70s. It wa another 40 years before leftists rewrote history and declared the rebel flag to be wacist. Back then-it was a sign of rebelliousness, not racism. Hell, kids in my high school in New York State had them on their cars-and shirts.
Black Americans have always seen the "rebel" flag as racist and didn't need "leftist" to tell us lol.
Yes, the band was racist, most white people in the 1970s were racist so it's not that big of a deal. There was and is a lot of racism in the music industry. I'm sure they probably stole some black artists' songs/rifts as well as this was common of white artists to do until the late 20th century (every once in a while it happens in the 21st century too).
While the Left wing Socialist pot smoking College Diaper babies are at it why don't they pull
the colors from our national flag too. After all....... it kinda looks like the Confederate flag............duh.............
The black DJ at both my girls wedding s had no problem with them...................
LOL - did you ask him/her if they minded? I bet the racist wedding was gossip about lol . Often black people overlook racism by whites that is not physically harming them and especially if they are going to make some money from an event.
LOL - did you ask him/her if they minded? I bet the racist wedding was gossip about lol . Often black people overlook racism by whites that is not physically harming them and especially if they are going to make some money from an event.
So, you're saying black people are ok with racism if there is money in it for them?
So was I, in the rural south, and no one understood the confederate flag to be racist. It stood for southern pride, rebellion and for the older folks it also stood for those ancestors who fought and died in the civil war and a remembrance of difficult times and loss for those in the communities where battles were actually fought.
Were some people racist, sure, but it had nothing to do with the flag.
Many southerners in the past and today just ignore the history of what the Confederacy stood for, which was white supremacy - racism at its core.
They pretend it is about other things and live in a la-la land. Personally I think many of them have mental problems dealing with delusion. I'm sure they "understood" what the flag meant to other people, but they chose to ignore what it meant and double down into their delusion. I don't think people are all that stupid. Many are, but most are not that stupid in the 1970s to know that the rebel flag stood for enslaving black people and keeping them in an inferior state during the years of the CSA - white supremacy. It is a white supremacy banner.
Many southerners in the past and today just ignore the history of what the Confederacy stood for, which was white supremacy - racism at its core.
They pretend it is about other things and live in a la-la land. Personally I think many of them have mental problems dealing with delusion. I'm sure they "understood" what the flag meant to other people, but they chose to ignore what it meant and double down into their delusion. I don't think people are all that stupid. Many are, but most are not that stupid in the 1970s to know that the rebel flag stood for enslaving black people and keeping them in an inferior state during the years of the CSA - white supremacy. It is a white supremacy banner.
And almost every liberal forgets the DNC was the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
And almost every liberal forgets the DNC was the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
I'm not a liberal, nor a Democrat and I'm very aware of the history of the KKK and that Jim Crow type of discrimination was practiced all over the country, regardless of political affiliation of the individuals in those areas. Contrary to what you and other conservatives seem to believe, most black people aren't dumb enough not to know history and usually we know more about the experience of racism than you do and we especially know that political affiliation makes no difference in regards to the racist ideas upholded by the delusional people I spoke of. Black intellectuals, lecturers, and leaders throughout the centuries have spoken ill about both white conservatives and liberals for their racism and condoning of domestic terrorism against black Americans.
So, you're saying black people are ok with racism if there is money in it for them?
Yes, some of them do. Not sure why you'd be surprised with that. This has always been the case.
Look at Candace Owens lol. There is always some, what we call "self hating negro" who joins in and condones racist views/ideas or actions against other black people so that they can enrich themselves.
That sort of behavior, not politicial affiliation itself, is the main reason why a black person would be deemd a "self hating negro" or an "Uncle Tom" not their political beliefs - their beliefs about black people and them encouraging, cosigning, or ignoring racists and racism for money.
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. Often black people overlook racism by whites that is not physically harming them and especially if they are going to make some money from an event.
