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The Confederate Flag In Every State, In Every Form, Must. Come. Down.
Time ^ | June 20, 2015 | J. Richard Cohen

Posted on 06/20/2015 2:54:05 PM PDT by PROCON


J. Richard Cohen is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Exactly whose heritage does it celebrate?

Following the church shooting this week, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered powerful words of healing and said the “people of South Carolina need us to come together and be strong.”

But at the same time the state’s citizens are being urged to “come together,” the state continues to display a divisive symbol — the Confederate flag — outside the state Capitol.

Reacting to calls to remove it, Sen. Lindsey Graham said the flag “is part of who we are.”

His answer makes me wonder just who Graham means by “we.” Does he mean the white people of South Carolina? Does he mean the neo-Confederates of South Carolina? Surely he doesn’t mean the African Americans in his state whose ancestors were enslaved, tortured and murdered under the regime represented by that flag. Surely he doesn’t mean older African Americans who still recall the terrorism of Klansmen who adopted the flag as their standard during Jim Crow. Surely not.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; dylannroofdixie; liberalinsanity; slimemagazine
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To: TomServo
SPLC is as racist as they come.

They are the very thing they accuse others of being. They are a hate group.

41 posted on 06/20/2015 3:23:54 PM PDT by NJRighty ("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
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To: PROCON

Those who erase history....


42 posted on 06/20/2015 3:24:36 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: PROCON

I probably should not mention this as they may not know it but the Florida State Flag contains the Cross of St. Andrew taken from the Confederate Battle Flag.

I have never flown the Battle Flag but if they ever ban it, I will begin to.


43 posted on 06/20/2015 3:24:44 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: PROCON

Damn it man. they cannot even get the name of the flag right. It is called the Confederate Battle Flag. The CSA had up to 3 different national flag.


44 posted on 06/20/2015 3:25:15 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: PROCON

Molon labe

45 posted on 06/20/2015 3:26:01 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Steely Tom
"What about southern accents. They gotta go too?"

Didn't one of the colleges recently tell their female students that they can no longer wear "southern belle" style dresses at school events? Like women's fashions of that time period (which mostly originated in France), were a symbol of oppression and slavery. The same style dress was worn in the north. Dumb asses. Next they'll go after Civil War re-enactors.

46 posted on 06/20/2015 3:26:23 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PROCON
Southern Poverty Law Center
poverty?

deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.:

47 posted on 06/20/2015 3:27:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: .45 Long Colt; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; ...

Mississippi ping


48 posted on 06/20/2015 3:28:37 PM PDT by WKB
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To: SaxxonWoods
"I grew up in Texas, which many don’t know supported the Union during the CW."

Of course some supported the Yankees, but then, why did carpetbaggers come into Austin and take over our government? Hell they even forced another constitution on us with a firearms restriction in it. Don't believe it, just read the history of the Texas Constitution... Or, prove me wrong.

49 posted on 06/20/2015 3:29:06 PM PDT by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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To: NJRighty

My tag line agrees with you.....


50 posted on 06/20/2015 3:30:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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To: PROCON

First they come for your flag, next they come for your gun.


51 posted on 06/20/2015 3:31:59 PM PDT by McGruff (It's gonna get ugly round here.)
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To: PROCON
It seems both Cohen and Romney never had complete history taught them in their formal education. There was as much likely more racial related violence in the north before and after the Civil War lasting through the 1960's. There was Segregation in the U.S. Government at least officially through WW2.

Look at history. In the Civil War there was USCT. That stands for United States Colored Troops. The name stopped after the Civil War but the policies in fact did not. WW2 saw segregated units in combat and in units doing construction such as the Trans Alaskan Highway. The two need to visit a National Cemetery established in The Civil War and read the headstones on the graves. Entire sections with USCT under the soldiers name. I'm thinking segregation in the Navy came about sometime in the 1960's and up until then non whites were not allowed many ratings.

The Civil War is one place Smedley Butler's theory on wars applied. Politically it was about states rights. Lincoln himself wanted to send slaves back to Africa upon conclusion of the war. It was also northern industrialist vs southern industrialist and some very rich families fighting for control of even the entire nations business. The industrialized north which had built it's infrastructure on the backs of slave labor were seeing slavery as a liability for them and a threat upcoming southern industries would do likewise building up the south. So they pushed for abolishing slavery. Not out of any moral conscience but rather a business maneuver. Those fights lasted into the early 1900's. Slavery in the USA lasted both in the northern and southern states into the early 1960's. Anyone believing otherwise should understand the concept of the Company Store and corporate owned towns in isolated communities.

The CSA fought an honorable fight and their causes were both as right and also as wrong as the north's cause was. When it was all over and done in the south both former slaves and former owners did not fair well. For survival sharecropping became common. Whites working fields along with and among blacks for several generations. Blacks in the north though free were not paid as equals, got the low end jobs, and was also largely segregated.

Mitt and Cohen obviously weren't in class when that part of American history was taught. Or did they get the new improved re-written by Marxist politically correct version of it which showed up in public and private education after WW2?

52 posted on 06/20/2015 3:34:09 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: PROCON

Ay, no esta mierda otra vez! Hasn’t this confederate flag hate been brought up just about every year recently?

A lot of my neighbors out here display the stars and bars on ranch gates, fences, etc, no matter whether they are Anglo, Hispanic or Black-try to make redneck rural people take those flags down, and I guarantee it will not go well-GFY, Richard Cohen...


53 posted on 06/20/2015 3:35:37 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Republican1795.

You can lead a Liberal/GOPe to a library but you can’t make them read!
Something like that?


54 posted on 06/20/2015 3:35:46 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: central_va

Good. You should be deeply offended. Why?


55 posted on 06/20/2015 3:37:09 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Steely Tom

They’ll have to pry my Southern accent from my cold dead lips. Awrite now, all yall that don’t like it ain’t got tuh lissen to it, you kin jist set rite down in ‘iss cheer ryecheer an’ behave yoself or jist git on down da road an’ don’t bother comin’ back. Yuh heah?


56 posted on 06/20/2015 3:38:05 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: sargon

> Not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China...

The black part of Cohen wants the Confederate flag removed from U.S culture.


57 posted on 06/20/2015 3:38:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: PROCON

That damn First Amendment is one large problem.
But, they will keep pecking away.


58 posted on 06/20/2015 3:39:04 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: PROCON

Hell...even here in the heart of Babylon, the soviet state of Red Hampshire; there is a pick-up that drives around flying the Second Confederate Navy Jack. Whenever I see it, I salute or give him a thumbs up.


59 posted on 06/20/2015 3:39:17 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: PROCON

They’ll never be satisfied with just a flag. It’s not really about the flag to them. It would never stop there. So they can foad for all I care.


60 posted on 06/20/2015 3:42:51 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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