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If you had been from my granddaddy's day you would understand things a little better
It confirms a lot of things I learned from my granddaddy, who if he were alive today would be leading a major league protest against the backlash that has resulted from one nutcase.
Revisionist history strikes again. The main reason for the War for Southern Independence was the north had way too much power and was pretty much pushing the South around, and the South, as you might expect, did not like that. Later, when the yankees realized it was do or die time, because Europe was fixing to help the South, then they made it all about slavery. Deny it all you want to but that is what really happened
Oh, please do elaborate. We'd love to know how your "grandaddy" looked at things and it would help us understand you so much better.
Flying the flag of the current government symbolizes who is in control. How is that not essential to government function?
I would understand when Albania joins with Dardania, that perhaps in the beginning there may be two flags. But the southern flag represents secession not unification, so remove it I say.
Well he is dead so his authority is nonexistent.
So.... remove it over state maintained confederate burial grounds and memorials?
Why do you need a seceding flag on top of such sensitive US wounds?
Yeah so are the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt and we still learn history from them.
The Signs designating they are a U.S. National Park or Memorial, etc, along with its name, symbolizes who is in control. There is no need for an expensive and tall flag pole.
In fact.... National Parks are not essential to government either....Nor are war memorials or national cemetaries....
How far do you want to go with this ignorance?
Because it was the flag the soldiers within or being memorialized died under.....
Is France wrong to have memorials to U.S. Soldiers who died in France with a U.S. Flag Flying above it?
We all have had/have grandpa's but that doesnt make them historically accurate.
It appears that ol' grandaddy's views on race are still quite alive however.
You know, horsegirl, I think you ought to be aware that you're telling us a lot more about yourself than you might be intending. It's starting to seem like you have very firm white supremacist ideas yourself. Do you think the white race is superior to all the other races (with the black race being at the bottom)?
Elaborate how Europe was fixing to help the South please?
For one, we are native Europeans, and we never planned to do that, so be specific.
So would "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" accurately describe ol' grandaddy's view of things?
Lets examine the post and quotes
here is my post 558 with you in it
and my response
What exactly is your problem with that? What do you claim was being discussed if not the Confederate flag of the topic and what it stands for?
What is it gonna take for you to learn that the war was not all about slavery until a couple of years in? It was ONE issue but sure as heck not the main one. What is it gonna take, the Congressional records from the 1850's?
What you said is irrelevant, obviously, because I clearly was referrencing what she was talking about. I have no idea why you are attempting to interject yourself into this especially when you don't seem to understand what we were talking about or what I referrenced, which was NOT "slavery". Just move on...
If so, how is the flag of secession help the people move on from those days?
The issue is within USA, not between country arrangements.
We have USA memories right in my city too. There's an Albanian flag in many parts within USA. But we indeed are different countries, the south and the north are not.
You know, horsegirl, I think you ought to be aware that you're telling us a lot more about yourself than you might be intending. It's starting to seem like you have very firm white supremacist ideas yourself. Do you think the white race is superior to all the other races (with the black race being at the bottom)?
When you get the story straight from the horse's mouth as my granddaddy did, I tend to find it quite believable
So your entire argument is based around what your Grandpa told you and that book by a known white power nationalist.
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