NAACP commends State for rejecting Confederate license plate

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

I'm not questioning the motives of the NAACP. Hell, i KNOW why they don't approve of the flag. That's not in question, and they aren't being sneaky about it. They also aren't trying to get a license plate approved.

What, the NAACP isn't a bunch of pants wetting ambulance chasers? They label damn near anything they disagree with "racist" and the "Tolerance" crusades go from there.

If this pro-Confederacy group is trying to convince people that the Confederate flag has not one iota to do with race, then why pick the Buffalo Soldiers advocacy group to compare yourself with? I'm pretty sure that the Buffalo Soldiers don't compare themselves to the Confederates. The two organizations are nothing alike in the first place.

Apparently, Heritage and Re-Enactment group doesn't come to mind to you does it?

I think it's a good question.

I don't think this standing will stand for long.

Originally Posted by portyhead24

As a Texan I'm very happy that the Texas DMV unanimously voted against these plates. The confederate flag carries a message of hatred and bigotry with it and there's no two ways about it. People have to remember that driving is a privilege not a right, and as such is overseen by government. If people want to get confederate flag bumper stickers and put them all over their car, more power to you. Government has the right in this case to make decisions on what is appropriate and what is not.

The SCV has successfully gotten these OPTIONAL plates in several different southern states already, a suit may be the next mode of action and I think in the long run the SCV will win it. But that "hatred" stuff, mostly cropped up back in the 1980's.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

To many more people then less the Civil War was not about slavery. You are entitled to think differently.

Yea, but the problem is that is WAS about slavery. It was EXACTLY about slavery. Saying that it wasn't is revisionism at it's finest.

But again, i don't live in Texas, and i don't spend anymore time there than necessary. So i truly don't give a damn about what they put on their plates. And again, i subscribe to the "proud loser" meme when it comes to the Confederate flag and other southern Civil War symbols and paraphanalia. If i had my way, everyone in Texas would get the plate so i could have more folks to laugh at when i see it.

[box_of_zip_disks]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

The flag in question was hijacked by a racist group, the KKK.

The CSA army battle flag didn't become the de facto flag of the Confederacy until the 1890s at the earliest, when the Klan was all but dead.