They rolled it up like it deserved some respect, just shocking! It should have disappeared in the night. At least the chanting of hey hey goodbye befits a losing symbol.
Said stowage of that flag possibly reflects the leanings of the people doing the folding, but I don't know that for certain. European Neo-Nazis are not allowed to use the swastika flag, so they use the Confederate battle flag instead. That says it all, for me.
Said stowage of that flag possibly reflects the leanings of the people doing the folding, but I don t know that for certain. European Neo-Nazis are not allowed to use the swastika flag, so they use the Confederate battle flag instead. That says it all, for me.
If "things" existed before the war it is ok by me, if it was created after the war to glorify the losers then it is rebal crap and should be relegated to a museum of embarrassing crap. That huge carving could be converted to MLK or something more appropriate than people fighting for slavery or the right for their state to have slaves.
You folks really have no understanding of what the Confederate War was all about. Need to study on your History before posting false info. That is the issue in this country now.
You folks really have no understanding of what the Confederate War was all about. Need to study on your History before posting false info. That is the issue in this country now.
I was suggesting the flag be stomped on. That is a bleeding heart?
Reductio ad absurdum much?
The strangest thing to me is those flags were trotted out to protest civil rights legislature.
It seems to me the offences that happen during one's life are eligible for criticism.
No offence but they lost. Are you ok with Mexicans flying the Mexican flag in Texas?
I don't think the civil war was fought entirely over slavery, in fact Maryland stayed in the union but still had slavery.
As far as the rebel flag that everyone recognizes goes that flag was somewhat obscure until the civil rights movement in the 1960s and was only trotted out as a big FU to the federal government, civil rights activists, and blacks in general.
There are truly people that believe the flag is part of their heritage and not hate. but there are also those people who claim that but are simply passively-aggressively saying FU to others in the population. It is a complicated issue and not so black and white as many want to believe or to have you believe. If those that want to use the flag to display their heritage had taken a stand against those that used it as a symbol of hate then we may not be having this conversation.
There are also people that want to display the flag to show they are a proud *********************************** the same way they display the git-r-done sticker on the back of their truck window. Like I said a complicated issue that has no one answer.
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