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If you support NASCAR because of the Confederate Flag --- not much any of us can say. It is what it is -- it's done. You have to give up your support I guess.
If you support NASCAR because of the Confederate Flag --- not much any of us can say. It is what it is -- it's done. You have to give up your support I guess.
Personally, I don't watch NASCAR in the first place. Not my thing. I don't like the Confederate flag either. And for those who feel like "we're being treated badly", I don't care. I say let said persons pull their support away. I could care less.
In the state of Minnesota, there is but one Confederate icon: a ratty old flag, no longer on public display. It came into Minnesotan hands in 1863, when First Minnesota Private Marshall Sherman captured it during the bloodbath at Gettysburg.
And so began a long and beautiful Minnesotan tradition of making sure Virginia never gets its racist flag back.
Years later, when the U.S. Government was trying to figure out how many of these captured flags it actually had, that fateful Virginian flag turned up missing. Though pretty much everybody knew where it was: St. Paul, Minnesota. It was being used as a prop in a big, dramatic diorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, complete with Sherman and his Confederate prize. Admission to go gawk at it was 50 cents for adults and a quarter for kids.
Later still, it was given to the Minnesota Historical Society, which displayed it for a while, then put it away somewhere where no human being has to lay eyes on it. And for 100 years, Virginia has been asking for it back—even suing for it, as a bunch of Virginian re-enactors tried to do in 1998. Then Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III told them to go fly a kite.
In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
“Why?” he asked. “We won.”
In 2002, the U.S. Army chief of military history declared that a wool flag like the 28th Virginia should be housed in a Virginia military history museum. Minnesota thought it should be housed in the proud halls of Step Off, Virginia, It’s Never Going to Happen. Tim Pawlenty turned the Virginians down once more in 2003, and Mark Dayton did it again in 2013.
I don't think anyone will ever have to worry about denying history. What happened, happened, we all know that. Now it's time to move on and remove this symbol of hate.
You do know that not everyone considers the Confederate flag and monuments to be "symbols of hate"......
Right?
So.......what makes your feelings and opinions about them take precedence over theirs?
So dwell on the ANCIENT past to further DIVIDE people. We've addressed it over 50 years ago, and now you want to keep focusing ion non existent overblown racism. Purely to create chaos. You and the other Leftists are fabricating anger to destroy the country as we know it. You are the enemy.
Just because George Floyd, a career, violent criminal was killed by a cop doesn't mean the country is Racist. IT IS NOT. Stop promoting a LIE.
That flag is old news.. they lost. Why should anyone be upset for not being able to fly the flag of a defeated army?
Its just a flag right, a piece of cloth. Could somebody here please explain what is so damned offensive about a piece of cloth? Describe in detail if you can.
I see nothing wrong with it.
If it’s just cloth why are you upset you can’t fly it at a race event?
You do know that not everyone considers the Confederate flag and monuments to be "symbols of hate"......
Right?
So.......what makes your feelings and opinions about them take precedence over theirs?
Maybe not, but many do. Why not be the bigger man and try not to offend those who are offended? The confederates went to war because of the slavery issue. I know it it was federalism, but still, it was slavery. Do you not see how many might have a problem with that? It's like the swastika. A symbol of hatred and murder. Why not just put it away? Leave it in the past where it belongs. Why would anybody want to celebrate the symbol of a bloody, messy war that was lost?
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