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I suppose the worst part is that the float was entered under false pretenses. Would have been better to be honest, and get rejected, then, he could have filed a lawsuit.
I recently went to a National Park, and was sick of the "white guilt" message that I felt was pervasive, "white people took Indian land, killed buffalo...", like I should feel shame? The message was completely slanted.
There is more to white history than enslavement, and pillage. Not that anyone will get that message.
I doubt if you can even drive a tractor. The float was a constitutional freedom of expression exhibition, and an exercise in free enterprise and a expression for the love of one's country when we have a president who is basically a 'black cloud' hanging over our heads.
I agree, and IMO, if America were truly, I really mean truly diverse and accepting and practiced equal rights for all, we by that measure should have had a black president years ago. We have not come full circle, yet. It just goes to show us how far America has really not evolved as much as we'd like to believe it has. Maybe in another 20 years?
I wonder if people know that Obama is distantly related to the Bush family?
I think there are always going to be prejudice people in the USA, as along as there are those who will elect to think in bigoted ways. One thing I learned from this presidency is this. The more things changes, some things still remain the same.
I would not have suspected that about Bush or Obama.
I've stated many times that the phrase "politcally correct" is so over-used that it has pretty much lost all meaning. Not to mention that most people don't seem to comprehend what the phrase originally meant in the first place, and therefore use it to describe situations that have nothing to do with political correctness. This is a perfect example. This idiotic float is not about political correctness. It is pure ignorance. Flying the confederate flag and hauling around watermelons does nothing but show how ignorant and backwards this individual is. He thinks he's making some clever point, when in reality the only people who don't think he's a sad, pathetic joke are those who already share his biased views.
When I saw that float, I didn't see anything good about it. I just saw someone who was being, well, a jerk, on purpose. And on the 4th of July. We might have freedom of speech, but flying a Confederate flag on the 4th of July, at an Independence Day parade, it is uncalled for. Yes, said person has the right to fly that flag, but being that Independence Day celebrated the USA's independence, I see the Confederate flag as going against all of that because the CSA wanted to break from the USA.
I doubt if you can even drive a tractor. The float was a constitutional freedom of expression exhibition, and an exercise in free enterprise and a expression for the love of one's country when we have a president who is basically a 'black cloud' hanging over our heads.
Again you fail to understand rights. he choose to be part of the parade, he choosse to abide by the rules of the organizer.
If he wanted to express his constitutional rights, he could have driven his tractor anywhere that was permitted and carried his sign behind.
Due process. If he wanted to display his sign in the parade, and was denied by the organizers, then he could have gone to court and have the parade organizers to allow him to do so. Due process is constitutional, forcing one's rights is not.
if it had black/latino history month on it, that would have not made the news. it is a guy on a tractor, why is the media so hell bent on causing controversy?
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