fellas the confederate flag is part of my heritage and it shouldnt be removed

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it is a symbol of how the south became the great south it is today. i am from georgia and my dad was born in south carolina. we are getting too sensitive as a nation and the confederate flag is a part of your history weather you like it or not.

only people that get offended should be used to the flag by now . its been there since forever. why people being so crazy about it being taken down.
 
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WHETHER you like it or not, here is some history regarding the "Stars and Bars"

From Wikipedia

The battle flag was NEVER adopted by the Confederate Congress, NEVER flew over any state capitols during the Confederacy, and was NEVER officially used by Confederate veterans' groups.

The flag probably would have been relegated to Civil War museums if it had not been resurrected by the resurgent KKK and used by Southern Dixiecrats during the 1948 presidential election.

Southern historian Gordon Rhea further wrote in 2011 that:

It is no accident that Confederate symbols have been the mainstay of white supremacist organizations, from the Ku Klux Klan to the skinheads.
They did not appropriate the Confederate battle flag simply because it was pretty.
They picked it because it was the flag of a nation dedicated to their ideals: 'that the negro is not equal to the white man'. The Confederate flag, we are told, represents heritage, not hate.
But why should we celebrate a heritage grounded in hate, a heritage whose self-avowed reason for existence was the exploitation and debasement of a sizeable segment of its population?
 
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FYI - The password to the politics forum is: password

In case this gets moved. :0008
 
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Sportsaholic said:
If it gets moved how will people know......:thinking:



By the way #1 & #1.......:0008
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It was mainly for Carl since it's his thread, and he should have seen it by now. :0008
 
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Construct Carl said:
it is a symbol of how the south became the great south it is today. i am from georgia and my dad was born in south carolina. we are getting too sensitive as a nation and the confederate flag is a part of your history weather you like it or not.

only people that get offended should be used to the flag by now . its been there since forever. why people being so crazy about it being taken down.
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I live in the South and I think it should be taken down:shrug: It offends some people and we are all Americans, not divided America, IMO...Good Luck with your play


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I live in the South and I think it should be taken down:shrug: It offends some people and we are all Americans, not divided America, IMO...Good Luck with your play


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Construct Carl said:
it is a symbol of how the south became the great south it is today. i am from georgia and my dad was born in south carolina. we are getting too sensitive as a nation and the confederate flag is a part of your history weather you like it or not.

only people that get offended should be used to the flag by now . its been there since forever. why people being so crazy about it being taken down.
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I keep hearing that argument and frankly I dont get it. Nazi flags are a part of German history.. And the German peoples want to distance from the swastika as far as possible. They realized their ignorance and have realized it is far from a badge of honor. Fighting for the south isnt any more of a thing to be proud of than fighting for the SS. So what if you had an ancestor that died in the civil war. Your ancestor was fighting for the wrong side. Time to move on

It is a part of history. The flags should be in museums.
 
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Construct Carl said:
it is a symbol of how the south became the great south it is today. i am from georgia and my dad was born in south carolina. we are getting too sensitive as a nation and the confederate flag is a part of your history weather you like it or not.

only people that get offended should be used to the flag by now . its been there since forever. why people being so crazy about it being taken down.
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SS soldiers being compared to confederate soldiers? :facepalm:

The Germans were/are a great patriotic people, and the average soldier fought hard and with passion for his country as did the average Confederate soldier. The SS was totally different and not a fair comparison. If you want to talk about atrocities and SS type tactics, check out Sherman's March through the South, Silas Gordon, and Camp Douglas.

I think the Confederate flag is often inflammatory, and it is especially so for people who are ignorant of history and just spout what they hear on television. I don't think it should be banned though because people have a right to do as they wish. "It's a free country" and that means you are free to make stupid decisions like flying a Confederate flag on your redneck truck. What I think is comical and such a double standard is that the people most fervently calling for bans of these flags on state buildings and wherever else are also some of the most staunch supporters of gay/transgender rights. If I am to be tolerant of what people feel and want to do (personally, I don't care even if I think it's ridiculous, so what?), then they have to provide reciprocity with things they don't believe in or find ridiculous too.
 
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SS soldiers being compared to confederate soldiers? :facepalm:

The Germans were/are a great patriotic people, and the average soldier fought hard and with passion for his country as did the average Confederate soldier. The SS was totally different and not a fair comparison. If you want to talk about atrocities and SS type tactics, check out Sherman's March through the South, Silas Gordon, and Camp Douglas.

I think the Confederate flag is often inflammatory, and it is especially so for people who are ignorant of history and just spout what they hear on television. I don't think it should be banned though because people have a right to do as they wish. "It's a free country" and that means you are free to make stupid decisions like flying a Confederate flag on your redneck truck. What I think is comical and such a double standard is that the people most fervently calling for bans of these flags on state buildings and wherever else are also some of the most staunch supporters of gay/transgender rights. If I am to be tolerant of what people feel and want to do (personally, I don't care even if I think it's ridiculous, so what?), then they have to provide reciprocity with things they don't believe in or find ridiculous too.
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Exactly !!! :clap:
 
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