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View Poll Results: The Confederate Flag is a symbol of:
Racism, slavery, and segregation 129 49.62%
Southern culture, history, and freedom 131 50.38%
Voters: 260. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-26-2010, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Pasadena
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You and I see this quite differently. I don't assign the same views to the flag that you do. To me, the flag is a symbol of Southern history, culture, pride, and maybe a little bit of rebelliousness. Those are all good things, in my opinion.

The comparisons you're trying to make between homosexuality and the Confederate Flag are lost on me. In fact, you should know that many gays in the South actually like the Confederate Flag. If you go to a gay pride event in Atlanta, you're bound to see something like this:
I am sad that you would write what you have written. I love my gay cousins & will fight to protect them if I have to.

 
Old 01-26-2010, 01:21 AM
 
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I am sad that you would write what you have written. I love my gay cousins & will fight to protect them if I have to.
I must be speaking Swedish. (Jag maste vara talande svenska.)
 
Old 01-26-2010, 01:24 AM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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I must be speaking Swedish. (Jag maste vara talande svenska.)
He lacks the maturity to understand the differences we are pointing out. Someday, hopefully, he will. Give him time.
 
Old 01-26-2010, 01:38 AM
 
Location: Mississippi
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No, you are wrong. The confederate flag represents immorality & to defend it suggests that your are immoral.
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab264/Dragging_Canoe/kheshanvietnam1968.jpg (broken link) US Marine Khe Sanh, Vietnam 1968.
 
Old 01-26-2010, 01:56 AM
 
Location: Mississippi
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It is so amusing to me that so many southerners who died in battle were poor white crackers who served as so much cannon fodder for the slave owning elite. Yet you people romanticize it. Sorry, but slavery was a disgusting time in our history and I don't see a need to pretend otherwise.
http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab264/Dragging_Canoe/Indians.jpg (broken link)


Poor White Crackers...Cherokee Indians????
 
Old 01-26-2010, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Dixie,of course
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Poor White Crackers...Cherokee Indians????
Just another Cracker Flag.





Just another Cracker Grave




 
Old 01-26-2010, 06:50 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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How can you condone what you know is wrong, anunidentifiedmale? You know that bigots are wrong so why do you defend them? I am getting confused. Aren't you gay? How can you defend those who would love to see you dead?
Plenty of "immorality" has been committed under the U.S. flag too, so you should hate that one just as much.
 
Old 01-26-2010, 06:52 AM
 
Location: Dixie,of course
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Poor White Crackers...Cherokee Indians????
Just another Cracker.


 
Old 01-26-2010, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Maybe you could live with Kramer.
Nah, for one she's half my age, and for two, she probably wouldn't like me.
 
Old 01-26-2010, 06:58 AM
 
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I like the flag. If you think it represents slavery then you MUST be racist.
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