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Old 07-15-2008, 02:43 PM
 
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and you know they feel sorry for themselves cause?
because all they do is complain..complain...complain about what other people do...they really should focus on themselves
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:46 PM
 
Location: in my imagination
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because all they do is complain..complain...complain about what other people do...they really should focus on themselves
there are plenty of both Republicans and Democrats who do that,why are people complaining about what others do for marriage or sex or what they drive or how big someones house is or how rich they are or what they eat or smoke or whatever?
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:47 PM
 
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and further more if we can have a miss mexican beauty pagent and a miss black pagent...then I think anyone who wants to should be able to fly the confederate flag....after all I have to look are the African flag when the "roots and heritage festival is in my town" and the "gay pride" flag whilst I'm not gay, but gees who cares, I'm not going to file suit agaisnt it or try to prevent it....who cares
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:47 PM
 
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The confederate flag obviously means different things to different people. Some people do fly it because of their southern pride or southern heritage. But it is also the case that some fly it out of extreme animus for those that are not white. Either way though it's a form of speech and should be protected. An individual should be able to fly the flag if he/she wants to. But others should also be able to march in non-violent protest against it if they desire to. Do I think though that there are a lot more pressing issues for the NAACP to be concerned about? YES.
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:52 PM
 
Location: in my imagination
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and further more if we can have a miss mexican beauty pagent and a miss black pagent...then I think anyone who wants to should be able to fly the confederate flag....after all I have to look are the African flag when the "roots and heritage festival is in my town" and the "gay pride" flag whilst I'm not gay, but gees who cares, I'm not going to file suit agaisnt it or try to prevent it....who cares
you just attached the rebel flag with representing being "white".If they can fly their flag why can't I who am white fly the confederate flag.....I thought the flag was about southern pride not race?
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:55 PM
 
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a memorial to citizens of a state who fought for a government intent on keeping slavery legal.


Any southern pride of lifestyle is over shadowed by that fact.
To you.
There are obviously different reasons why it's flown and different perceptions of it when it is seen.
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:58 PM
 
Location: California
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CINCINNATI (AP) - NAACP leaders meeting in in Cincinnati say they will step up their campaign against flying of the Confederate battle flag on state grounds in South Carolina.

NAACP leaders will push Confederate flag issue
Well that will be the first step, then they will want it banned altogether and then they will want to ban something else, maybe something you have feelings for or just like. How about tatto's that offend someone, maybe we can ban those, or your funny (to you) t-shirt. These idiots have better things to do than this.
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:28 PM
 
Location: southern california
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why respond if you cant understand my jibberish? you must be mad cause you tried to insult me, but failed!!! seems thats what most people in here do whenthey get mad they try to question someones grammar!
dear city414
i gave a pretty reasonable and civil response to your accusation.
when you call people out on CDF how bout responding.
you may DM me if you are more comfortable doing that.
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:41 PM
 
Location: The Rock!
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a memorial to citizens of a state who fought for a government intent on keeping slavery legal.


Any southern pride of lifestyle is over shadowed by that fact.
So... people from the south can't have any pride because of something that happened 150 years ago?
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Transition Island
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What ever happened to our freedom??? The confederate flag is a part of Southern history and the NAACP is a bunch of idiots with nothing better to do. I wish all these special interest groups like the NAACP, ACLU, et al. would just spontaneously combust!
That will never happen!! So you have no choice but to live with it. They serve a great purpose for us at least!!
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