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Where are you from? If you are an American citizen, then you should be ashamed of the crimes committed against native Americans and you should not be proud of anything our country has done since. That is the kid of logic you are using. Just because some people in the past in the South might have done some things that I am not proud of does not mean I am not proud of the South. When you fly the American flag, does it remind you of a country that tried to wipe out a whole race? Because that is what our nation tried to do to Native Americans. It is not something to be proud of is it? But yet I am proud to be an American, as I am sure you are. How is that different than Southerners being proud to be from the South?
You just don't get it. You and your friends offer post after post about the glorious history of the South and that flag and why should anybody bother themselves about it. You totally ignore the shameful history of your region of the country, which continued with murders and lynchings up until fairly recent times. All of this anti-federal government crap spewing from the south now is just a continuation of a war you lost 150 years ago.
When confronted with it, you invariably try and deflect criticism by talking about the Indians. The difference is, I acknowledge the shameful treatment of the American Indians and that I don't glorify the race relations that existed a 100 years ago between the whites and the Indians, nor am I constantly bragging about it. Nor, to the best of my knowledge, do we fly the flag of the 7th Cavalry on Indian Reservations.
Actually, it's people like you who contribute to what is wrong with human beings.
Californio sur's comment is endemic of progressive types who have no understanding of other American cultures that are quite different from their own. The media exploits this ignorance and tends to brainwash the masses into believing certain things since most people have no personal experience with it.
If you're familiar with the TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard", do you think the General Lee was racist?
Have no idea what you're trying to say here.
Priceless. A dumb 70's show about ignorant rednecks is proof that those who fly the rebel flag weren't racist!
Hey, I'm still waiting for northern whites to figure out that giving smallpox intentionally to Native Americans was a pretty bad thing to do, too. Or how they enslaved Native Americans, Irish, and French-Canadians. Still, conveniently boxing in a region is a great substitute for knowledge.
Oops...forgot slavery only happened in the South
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American Indians enslaved? Irish enslaved? French Canadians enslaved? Bought and sold in the slave market?
You need to read his post again. No where in it did he say he did not like black people. He was trying to make you see that the South is not the only group that had a hand in slavery in the United States. Read your history books again, and you will see that he is right.
No, you folks just perfected it and made it a way of life. Oh yeah, then fought a civil war to preserve it.
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American Indians enslaved? Irish enslaved? French Canadians enslaved? Bought and sold in the slave market?
Stunning news.
Yes...it was referred to as "indentured servitude". Look it up.
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