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You're clearly entitled to your opinion...however, if you are aquainted with every last person who flies said flag so that you may make a judgement pertaining to their personalities as you just did, then I would retract my earlier statement and say you're QUITE well connected.
Otherwise I'd say you're letting your own opinions make judgements not based on fact.
You're just an apologist for the Southern cause and trying to justify it in 2010.
I understand your young brain is still developing..perhaps this will refresh your memory?
As per the topic, SC will decide whether or not the flag stands here. This forum has danced this dance a thousand times before. Why not just look up older threads?
I understand your young brain is still developing..perhaps this will refresh your memory?
As per the topic, SC will decide whether or not the flag stands here. This forum has danced this dance a thousand times before. Why not just look up older threads?
Sorry, Colddiamond, I forgot who you are no offense meant. It seems strange that a woman would be pro-Confederate for some reason. A teacher told me that if women had all the power that there wouldn't be any problems in America. Do you believe that, too?
You're just an apologist for the Southern cause and trying to justify it in 2010.
I dont apologize for a damn thing, so I'd thank you kindly to not put words in my mouth.
History is history, and without it we wouldnt be what we are now.It shouldnt be buried simply because its distasteful to some. We would have no lessons to look back on without it. Thats EXACTLY what that flag is. Living history. A reminder of those who fought and died, and a flag that is unique to a region of the country.
I dont apologize for a damn thing, so I'd thank you kindly to not put words in my mouth.
History is history, and without it we wouldnt be what we are now.It shouldnt be buried simply because its distasteful to some. We would have no lessons to look back on without it. Thats EXACTLY what that flag is. Living history. A reminder of those who fought and died, and a flag that is unique to a region of the country.
Leave it alone.
Big problem is that confederates killed Americans. Nothing to be proud of unless a person is an enemy of America.
I agree that individual people should have the freedom to wave whatever flag they want. But any public land should be forbidden to allow non-American flags. Who would want the flag of China or Saudi Arabia flying over American public land or buildings?
Then you would agree that Hispanics should not fly the flag of Mexico?
Sorry, Colddiamond, I forgot who you are no offense meant. It seems strange that a woman would be pro-Confederate for some reason. A teacher told me that if women had all the power that there wouldn't be any problems in America. Do you believe that, too?
No, because women alone are quite intelligent and capable. In a group, combined together for long periods of time, they are some of the most quarrelsome, backstabbing, vicious,underhanded people you'd ever be afraid to meet. Just like men, they'd be fighting amongst themselves, either for power or over petty dramas.
Your hair would curl at some of the things that go on with a group of women when there are no men around to hear what tricks have been played on them. It scares ME, and Im a woman!
Bottom line, either sex is human, which means its going to get screwed up at some point.
You must keep in mind, Californio, that that flag doesnt mean just one thing to everyone.To me, it is an everyday history lesson that I grew up with, a symbol unique to the region I grew up in, and a reminder of a ornery great-great uncle of mine that died underneath it trying to stop the Sherman's army from burning his farm nearby. (I have some of his letters to my aunt written while he was on the battlefield)
Most of all, it just means home. Nothing racial about it to me, and quite frankly it PO's me to no end when I see idiots from the KKK or Nazi's flying it for their own stupid political purposes.
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How about the rainbow flags lining Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood? Those aren't "American" flags, are they?
That's a good question. Made me stop & think for a minute. But I don't think gay flags are being flown from public buildings or schools, etc. Right? Also gay people are not anti-America like some Southerns are. To be racist is anti-American but to be gay isn't.
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"Hitting on me via the internet"? Are you female?
no offense meant. It seems strange that a woman would be pro-Confederate for some reason. A teacher told me that if women had all the power that there wouldn't be any problems in America. Do you believe that, too?
