Posted on 07/10/2019 4:54:24 PM PDT by PBRCat
Yes, the Confederate flag offends us...
Maybe the flag is about Southern pride, good ol’ rebel spirit. But it is about the South’s historic defense of slavery, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, fascism, white supremacy, white nationalism and bigotry.
Gov. Pritzker said, “The Confederate flag is a symbol of not just slavery, but of treason against the United States.”
Why are we writing to criticize Pritzker for banning Confederate Railroad, a country band that uses the Confederate flag, from performing at a state fair?
Because government should pick its battles wisely and rarely when curbing free expression, even free expression paid for by the taxpayer.
And it was the Pritzker administration that booked Confederate Railroad in the first place.
It would have been entirely reasonable for state officials to decline to book the band because of the art on the band’s album cover, which includes a Confederate flag.
But for Pritzker to reach down now, after all the contracts have been signed, and cancel the booking for this one band strikes us as excessive government involvement in matters of free expression.
It is not strictly censorship. Nobody is saying Confederate Railroad can’t play wherever it can land a gig. But it feels to us like a poorly thought-out violation of the spirit of free speech, our nation’s most sacred principle, given that the band was hired before it was given the boot.
We would have preferred Confederate Railroad (was not booked). We also would have understood had the department chosen not to book Snoop Dogg to perform at the fair. Many are offended by Snoop Dogg’s latest album cover — the rapper standing over a corpse toe-tagged with President Donald Trump’s name.
Confederate Railroad was booked. A contract was signed.
Pritzker should have let the band play.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Illinois is going to have to compensate the band for the cancellation as well.
Pritzker is a damn Ill. Yankee.
Oh, if “klantifa” had a band they’d get to play. Intolerant NOH8erz.
If I was the Governor of Indiana I would call a press conference tomorrow and announce that my state would be hosting an “Illinois State Fair in Exile” every year for as long as this guy Prickster is in office as the governor of Illinois.
I didn’t know Confederate Railroad was still a thing. I was a big fan in their first decade; Danny Shirley was cute as a golden retriever puppy.
So everyone in the South is a traitor? These PC Nazis are out of control.
Is it Illegal to own a 68 Dodge Charger clone of the General Lee there?
Be sure to thank Nikki Haley......
Like all the good things. Gone like a freight train. Like a Civil War soldier.Gone.Gone.
I’m still waiting for the state of W. Virginia to tear down all those buildings, bridges, tunnels and schools named after its most famous Klansman, Robert KKK Byrd.
I got it ;-).
“If I was the Governor of Indiana I would call a press conference tomorrow and announce that my state would be hosting an “Illinois State Fair in Exile” every year for as long as this guy Prickster is in office as the governor of Illinois”
At the Gary Airport, with free South Shore service....
Mitch Daniels would have thought about this. Our current Gov seems to afraid of his own shadow to do it.
There’s nothing wrong with that flag......it’s history and bastardizing it won’t make things better. It’s a ploy to take history away and appease the ignorant snowflakes...but I find myself not blaming them (we all know they’re stupid) but the guilty WHITES that appease them is the problem!!! I hope Confederate Railroad sues the hell out of them for breach of contract!!!
The Confederacy was a just cause. The South should be proud of its rebellion against Fedzilla.
He also flew on the Lolita Express a number of times.
Yeah, even though I thought she gave the idiots of the New World Order some grief as Ambassador to the UN, I still get the chills when I hear someone say that President Trump should throw Pence over and have Haley as a running mate.....NO WAY!!!!!!
That’s dumber than the Lincoln comments ^
The Confederacy was a just cause. The South should be proud of its rebellion against Fedzilla.
Well I tell for sure, I’m proud as punch to be a Southerner with ancestors that fought in that war!.....:)
Guess the Muslims are getting kicked out of IL
That’s dumber than the Lincoln comments ^
Can you explain what you’re talking about???
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