Really? When was Strom Thurmond actually in the Klan. See...I know Senator Byrd was...I hadnt read that about Thurmond. Do you have a source?Looks like Strom Thurmond to me.
Crying about a flag specifically designed to thumb black people in the eye, pretending it represents Southern pride, is what losers do.
Really? When was Strom Thurmond actually in the Klan. See...I know Senator Byrd was...I hadnt read that about Thurmond. Do you have a source?
Really?See...I know Senator Byrd was...I hadnt read that about Thurmond. Do you have a source?When was Strom Thurmond actually in the Klan.
I completely understand you will assign whatever meaning to it you choose. I also believe you have the right to be offended. Similarly...I observe how you just completely ignore the fact that the KKK usurped the US flag and they TOO used it as a symbol of oppression (and perhaps rightfully so considering the US had a history of slavery long before the formation of the confederate states).
Thats not conveeeeeenient.
Yes, the flag was designed to thumb black people in the eye.
I absolutely acknowledge what the flag means to some and the assigned meaning given to it by others.You're simply refusing the acknowledge the general understand of what the flag stands for. Again, much like the swastika, it's origin intent is not what it's currently understood as.
The American flag does not hold the same meaning to Americans as the confederate flag does. So I'm not sure why you're bring that up and insisting it does.
Really? You had the occasion to see Strom Thurmond in a sheet and can recognize him? You may be letting on far more about yourself than really, any of us need to know.I didn't say that he was in the Klan, I said that it looked like him on that horse. Totally different thing.
Of course the back end of the horse looks like him also. Lots of resemblance going on here.
:lol:
(I know)He wasn't.
I completely understand you will assign whatever meaning to it you choose. I also believe you have the right to be offended. Similarly...I observe how you just completely ignore the fact that the KKK usurped the US flag and they TOO used it as a symbol of oppression (and perhaps rightfully so consideringthe US had a history of slavery long before the formation of the confederate states).
Thats not conveeeeeenient.
The USA had a history of slavery before it became the USA, before the Revolutionary War was fought.
they still do
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race" -Abraham Lincoln
Crying about a flag specifically designed to thumb black people in the eye, pretending it represents Southern pride, is what losers do.
The USA had a history of slavery before it became the USA, before the Revolutionary War was fought.
The Confederate Battle Flag is not a Nazi swastika. Some have used it as a symbol of oppression, just as some have used the US flag for the same purpose.
Good indeed,
I as I said before: A seceding symbol less a day keeps the country more united tomorrow.
Should have been kept flying high and proud! UNfortunately SC's spineless jellyfish of a governor had to cave to political correctness.
Should have been kept flying high and proud! UNfortunately SC's spineless jellyfish of a governor had to cave to political correctness.
Nothing to be proud from dividing the US in two girl. It is a wonder how it stood as far as it did. I attribute that to tolerance, but enough is enough.
Sure, what good is state government if they don't keep flying a relic of a shameful past that offends 1/3 of the population, lots of tourists and prospective businesses, and causes other groups to boycott your state.
What's a little bit telling is the stupid flag has been controversial for decades, especially for the state's blacks. And nothing happens for over 50 years. The business community complains and gets behind the removal, and it comes down in less than a month.
Good indeed,
I as I said before: A seceding symbol less a day keeps the country more united tomorrow.
More like sad since people have not been taught the truth about the War for Southern Independence
No one was fussing about it until a mentally ill nutcase went on a shooting spree. How about focusing on the law he did break, instead of blaming a flag? Oh wait, that makes too much sense
More like: War of exchanging allegiance from home to England and France.
One way or the other, all dividing symbols must go.
Last time I checked crybabies did NOT have the "right" not to be "offended" by history. And it wasn't the "business community" that started this whole mess, it was a mentally ill nutcase with a gun that was obtained illegally. Focus on actual laws that WERE broken instead of trying to erase history.
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