Posted on 06/29/2015 3:01:25 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Confederate flags returned to the cradle of the Confederacy on Saturday as hundreds of flag supporters arrived at Alabama's Capitol to protest the removal of four rebel flags from a Confederate monument next to the building where the Confederacy was formed.
Standing at the bottom of the Capitol's steps, where 50 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. led a march for civil rights, Tim Steadman said it wasn't right to remove the flags.
"Right now, this past week with everything that is going on, I feel very much like the Jews must have felt in the very beginning of the Nazi Germany takeover," he said. "I mean I do feel that way, like there is a concerted effort to wipe people like me out, to wipe out my heritage and to erase the truths of history."
Days earlier, Gov. Robert Bentley had ordered the flags taken down from the 1898 monument amid national controversy about whether Confederate symbols should be displayed on state grounds.
Standing next to Steadman was Ronnie Simmons, who wore a t-shirt with the face of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis, who was elected as the first and only Confederate president inside the historic Alabama Senate chamber inside the Capitol in 1861, once lived a block away in the First White House of the Confederacy while Montgomery was briefly the capital.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
big one in Tampa FL too.
Enough is enough of this witch hunt. he feds have now ordered the battle flag to be taken down at FT Sumter in SC.
I guess the shots fired were form that invisible army .
I love it . About time !
Didn't know about the rallies, but was in Richmond yesterday and left memorial stones on Jefferson Davis's grave.
Hallelujah!
Pushback.
Enough is enough. We are flying the confederate battle flad and the Gadsden on our deck July 4th. Anybody in the neighborhood who is offended can kiss our grits.
got mine flying now.
I have tried leaving comments on that link , but it will only let me post one comment thus far as it seems the left are all over it
I plan to get redneck drunk on July 4th and anybody that comes around whining about our flags is going to get the brunt of some redneck justice. :-)
LOL
“Enough is enough of this witch hunt. he feds have now ordered the battle flag to be taken down at FT Sumter in SC.”
And I have taken down the Stars and Stripes, which flew over my house for many years. America has become fascist.
http://wjtv.com/2015/06/22/web-poll-do-you-think-the-mississippi-state-flag-should-be-changed/
should the MS state flag be changed poll
I’m Southern to the bone.....my great aunt was one of the last surviving Civil War widows in Alabama.....I really could care less about this flag but I’m sick of Libs trashing me, my kin and my neighbors for political gain!!!! They are pigs and I’ve lived in the North enough to know that they are far more prejudiced then any of us down here in Dixie.....and yes I proudly use the term “Dixie”.....ever since the Charleston slaughter every black friend I have has walked up to me and hugged me....bet that’s not happening in such wonderful places as Baltimore and Ferguson.....just saying..
I’m Southern to the bone, too. My great great grandfather was a Rebel soldier at Shiloh. My parents took me to Shiloh, TN when I was a child more than once. My family didn’t deify Abraham Lincoln. Daddy said Lincoln really *wanted* that war; that there were inventions in the works (cotton gin for one) that would render slavery obsolete.
As the Bloody Pond at Shiloh has faded with each passing year since I was there as a child over 60 yrs. ago; peoples’ memories of the hell that is war fades. It seems that when the Bloody Pond finally goes clear; they’ll be ready to start another season in hell.
A fifteen-star battle flag? Did Maryland and Delaware secede after all?
A fifteen-star battle flag? Did Maryland and Delaware secede after all?
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