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Why, pray tell, would black people fly the Confederate Flag? I cannot think of any reason.
My adopted Daughter is Black. She loves NASCAR racing. She bought a Confederate Flag beach towel at a NASCAR race - and takes it with her whenever she goes to a pool or the Beach.
My adopted Daughter is Black. She loves NASCAR racing. She bought a Confederate Flag beach towel at a NASCAR race - and takes it with her whenever she goes to a pool or the Beach.
Just curious: Is your daughter aware of the origin of the Battle Flag?
Just curious: Is your daughter aware of the origin of the Battle Flag?
I'm wondering the same thing. It would be like me, a Cuban-American, allowing my daughter to wear a Fidel Castro t-shirt. It may not effect her life personally, but it just seems so wrong.
I personally know people who display the southern flag, and who are part of northern states. When asked, the flag represents states rights...which was a major issue in the civil war and is still a major issue today.
I'm offended by the people who are directing so much venom at the white country boys driving around in their trucks displaying the stars and bars. If I may ask, how does your attitude help educate these individuals by any stretch of the imagination? People can be ignorant without being racist...for example, I live in the inner city (which is african american) and there are lot's of people here who think the minute they step outside the city boundaries into the county, the KKK is going to get them. Ignorance needs education, not ridicule.
Besides, many of these boys you ridicule so much are the boys going away to protect your right to ridicule them!
Finally, anyone who is offended by displaying a flag where racism or genocide has been officially conducted under that the authority of that flag at one point in that flag's history had better not ever raise that American Flag.
I still cant believe some people are so ignorant to this...
I love the confederate flag and support it...
not because of slavery...
but because of Freedom against an overpowering govt., states rights, and liberty.
Many dont realize how racist lincoln was...He did not want blacks to have any power at all...he said he wanted a WHITE nation. It is a shame that history books and the mass media have portrayed the confederate battle flag the way it has.
The confederate flag means Liberty from an overpowering govt to me. It means freedom. It means states rights.
This should have had a poll, "what do you think when you see a confederate flag flying?" whatever your personal interpretations are or whatever in-depth knowledge to the history of the confederate flag you have, to the majority of Americans it says, "backwards southerner who can't get over the fact we lost and want to go back the slave days." Whatever it means to you, ok, whatever, but the point is what it says to other people when you’re flying it. I almost ran off the road when I saw someone flying it OVER the American flag in the NC Mountains. You see it a lot here, and I'm pretty sure that the majority of people who resided in the southern mountains during the time of the civil war were northern sympathizers. If the south had won, they wouldn't have ended slavery because too many people in the confederate party made so much money off it. You can say it was all about trade and everything but that's like looking a slave from the civil war in the eyes and saying, "it's not personal, it's business."
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My adopted Daughter is Black. She loves NASCAR racing. She bought a Confederate Flag beach towel at a NASCAR race - and takes it with her whenever she goes to a pool or the Beach.
Who woulda thunk... To each his/her own, I guess. If she's fine with it, more power to her.
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