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It's just a piece of colored cloth, it has no real meaning and it shouldn't offend anyone, if it does then you are adding your own meaning to it. Let it go.
It's just a piece of colored cloth, it has no real meaning and it shouldn't offend anyone, if it does then you are adding your own meaning to it. Let it go.
The flag's move to the Confederate Memorial in 2000 is/was a joke. The Confederate flag's origins in Columbia are a remnant of segregation, not the Civil War—it was first flown over the Capitol in 1962 in response to the civil rights/desegregation push of that era.
People can voice their strong opinion even if they have no say in the ultimate decision. That is free speech.
The Flag is a Historical Symbol of one side of a Civil War. Why the War was fought has nothing to do with what the Flag looks like, no more than what the US Flag means by looking at it. Want to "Ban" Pictures of Robert E. Lee from History Books? Why not just Ban History books. This whole flag thing is silly.
I associate the Confederate flag with "Independence". If it is throwing up a middle-finger to anyone, it would be the federal government.
Indeed, but not federal government of 1861. This particular flag went up a full century later, when the evil federal government forced - forced! - South Carolina to desegregate and do away with Jim Crow laws, and South Carolina reacted with the exact level of maturity we've come to expect. It wasn't until South Carolina was forced to do away with separate water fountains and lunch counters that they suddenly felt the need to "commemorate" the civil war.
This particular flag was hoisted as a petulant protest against civil rights, against the idea of the black man being equal. Appropriating the memory of those who died in the Civil War because white South Carolinians couldn't deal with the idea of black people using the same bowling alleys, that is about as studied of an insult as any Yankee could have dreamt up.
Quit kidding yourselves America. The confederate flag absolutely and clearly stands for slavery and racism. Stop trying to hide behind the guise of 'heritage'. The South got its ass whooped and needs to move on from something that happened 150 years ago. Germany doesn't demand to fly Nazi flags everywhere out of 'heritage'. They know what it stands for.
Ridiculous...the confederate flag stood for the South who were fighting for "STATES RIGHTS!" Somehow that gets lost in all the rhetoric. Slavery was a side issue in that the Federal Government wanted to "TELL STATES WHAT THEY COULD AND/OR COULD NOT DO!" Those re-writing history make sure the real basis for the Civil War doesn't get explained as to what the issue really was.
If you don't like that flag, don't look at it. The less fuss made, the less important flying that flag becomes. Just make sure it always flies "below" the American Flag. I'm sick to death of all this racial crap. I would hope that adults would have out-grown their childish thinking.
He sure had no problem with the Confederate flag when he was trying to get SC to vote for him in the 2012 RNC primary. Not one mention of flag even though he made a large number of speeches there.
SC wasn't buying his hypocrisy. They held their nose and voted for Gingrich over two face Romney.
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you must have your head in the sand
