NAACP, Homestead council in dispute over Confederate flag (Miami, Davie: living in, fence)

[stevep111]

All you have to do is look around and you will see segragation here in Miami. Case in point a Non Black businessman wanted to build and open a gas station in Richmond Heights (segregated community) and had to fight for his rights because neighbors wanted to keep the area all black. Little Havana, Miami Beach used to be all Jewish. The list goes on and on.

[♥♥PRINC3Ss♥♥]

Originally Posted by stevep111

All you have to do is look around and you will see segragation here in Miami. Case in point a Non Black businessman wanted to build and open a gas station in Richmond Heights (segregated community) and had to fight for his rights because neighbors wanted to keep the area all black. Little Havana, Miami Beach used to be all Jewish. The list goes on and on.

Is that the best segregation example you could quote? Is it the most common?

This place is hopeless. I really need to move out of this state.

[MiamiRob]

I just find it strange that they would bring a symbol like that to a place that has no history of the Civil War or the Confederacy. Homestead and most of south Florida didn't even exist at the time of the Civil War.

[Leovigildo]

Miami

Rednecks all over the world love that flag. Nothing wrong with flags or symbols, it's history.

[unkindravens]

Quick thoughts: fly the flag if you want, in fact if it makes you proud - for whatever reason, you have the right to display the flag on your own self/property. Govt/state public spaces - no, because this is for everyone and we should be able to compromise - you're allowed to go in public displaying the flag so long as i'm not forced to see it in a school or a dmv.

It doesn't mean a symbol of hatred for everyone. Thats absurd to say: you fly the rebel flag - YOU ARE A RACIST. Like wtf? thats like if someone said to me: you are latino - YOU MUST EAT TACOS AND LISTEN TO REGGEATON. its like wtf? why is everything so black and white? shades of gray people shades of gray. Many people are proud of being southern, whatever that means to them. I am hispanic - whatever that means to me. Its a label I choose to wear and I choose the terms under which I wear it. The American flag represents many things to many different people: atrocities in war such as vietnam/iraq to fighting for freedom and a land of the free. Its what you choose to make of these things that determines what they mean to you.

PS - I've had neighbors display the flag in front of their house - im sure 9/10 of the people on my street had no idea what that flag was (mira! la bandera americana que bonita con el azul y el rojo y el blanco!) and the woman who lived that was the sweetest old lady ever - she even fed us after Wilma f'ed up our house and never said a mean thing in her life - she had no problem with folks black white latino or even martian - so long as they were polite.

[1772]

Oh boy, the NAACP is at it again, trying desperatly to prove there own existance...

No, the confederate flag isn't raqcist, it's a proud part of US history. Comparing it with the nazi germany flag is utter left-wing stupidity.

[TANaples]

After over a century, the South still cannot get over the Civil War. Seceed if you hate the "Union" so much. See how you will survive without the rest of the USA.

[WINTERFRONT]

But..... it's part of their culture.

[Manolón]

Winter

Politicians politize everything because that's their job. They don't care for history or anything, they just care for their agendas.

If part of their constituency thinks that Confederate Battle Flag is racist, fascist, etc, etc, and the rest of their constituents is not as vocal, they'll outlaw the darn flag.

[MiamiRob]

Originally Posted by 1772

Oh boy, the NAACP is at it again, trying desperatly to prove there own existance...

No, the confederate flag isn't raqcist, it's a proud part of US history. Comparing it with the nazi germany flag is utter left-wing stupidity.

proud part of US history? You must be joking!