President Trump Defends The Confederate Flag's Heritage And Southerners Prideful Love For It

Reuters ^ | July 19, 2020 | Reuters

[White Lives Matter]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump declined to say the Confederate flag was an offensive symbol in an interview broadcast on Sunday, saying it is a source of pride for people who love the South.

The Republican president was asked on “Fox News Sunday,” if the flag, considered a symbol of slavery and oppression by most Americans, was offensive.

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"It depends on who you’re talking about, when you’re talking about,” Trump responded. “When people proudly had their Confederate flags they’re not talking about racism. They love their flag, it represents the South. They like the South ... I say it’s freedom of many things, but it’s freedom of speech.”

[cowboyusa]

No. S flag of treason against the US should not fly on public property

[WildHighlander57]

Ruy Dias de Bivar wrote:

“...Russian Naval Jack

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Interesting info!

[jersey117]

It was a battle flag. Does Chris Wallass have a problem with hammer and sickle flags being waved at the riots? Trump should have asked him.

[Samurai_Jack]

“I don’t know about AEI or Cato, but to my mind, Heritage is the biggest fraud in a long time. “

Oh you’ve made a context error perhaps? The article’s not talking about the Heritage foundation, they’re referring to the (lower case) heritage of the Confederate flag and the Southerners love of their heritage.

That said, I’m inclined to agree with you about the upper case Heritage foundation. I see them thus far advocating for the leftward relocation of the center.

[Guenevere]

Love my President!!!!

Appreciate defending our heritage.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From the movie MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY (1954)

Look at Keenan Wynn’s helmet! Smelling salts! Quick!

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[Dawgreg]

Thank you Mr. President........thank you from us Southerners who consider the flag a symbol of our beloved South and not a racist symbol like the narrow-minded leftists say because they never know what the hell they’re talking about and without that flag so many race hustlers and pimps would be outta business!!!

[Dawgreg]

You got that right. Every campaign mail I get from Nikki Haley I delete. I don’t trust her any more than I trust Peeloosley!!

[bray]

The DNC loved the south when they won a few of those states.

[JonPreston]

I Love the stars and bars and I own a flag of the stars and bars.

Thank you president Trump.

[butlerweave]

The Silent Majority should speak up and tell this handful of Whining Commies where to go

[Impala64ssa]

I was born in daBronx, grew up in the northern NYC suburbs. Respectfully I never had an affinity for the Confederate flag. But the more I hear from bitch ass, overwhelmingly White liberals the more tempted I am to buy one, or two just on principle. And what's crazy, the first time I've been to FL, as a kid, we drove down US 301 through most of the Carolinas and GA since I-95 wasn't completed yet. You would hardly see the flag, occasionally in front of someone's home, but other than at older cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried and the tourist traps they were very few and far between. One reason there seems to be more of them around

[Impala64ssa]

The Grand Kleagale whose name is on every thing in West Virginia!!!
We travelled around W VA years ago before Sheets Byrd croaked. Arlready there was was lots of streets, buildings, schools, etc named after him. In beautiful downtown Lewisburg on US 60 is an abort-o-mat, the Robt. K. Byrd Women's "Health" Center.

[minnesota_bound]

Note the flag.

Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama (Live In Atlantic City)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zup5Pg98m5U

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

this is costing him black votes, not that he had many-was 7%, now down to 6% -!% in swing states can be the difference-not smart politics

And how would you know that? Down the street from me is a black man who has flown a Confederate Battle Flag for 30+ years in his front yard (it confuses the heck out of the folks that get upset, only to see him mowing the yard). "Blacks" aren't a voting block (that's a racist idea; that somehow your skin-color equals your voting habits). Black liberals won't like this, but they weren't going to vote for him, anyway.

Standing for principles will always lose some votes. It'll also gain others. I'd far rather vote for the man with principles (even if I don't agree with all of them), than the man who moderates so as to not offend anyone. But cowardice seems to be catching...

[Lurkinanloomin]

See post #6, even the men they were shooting at did not consider them traitors, get off your high horse.

[Tucker39]

Thanks. I was responding to information in the LINK at the bottom of your reply #10. In it those three outfits were named as ineffective do-nothing organizations, if I understood it correctly.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The ONLY issue I have with his answer is that he never acknowledges that it does bother some people.

Why would he? First, everyone knows that some people squeal about it. Otherwise it wouldn't be a question he was asked. Second, anything anyone does is going to offend someone (hold open a door for a woman sometime: 95% will say thank you and 5% will spit on you for being misogynistic). No one cares if you are offended; that's your problem. We need to go back to a society that wasn't so weak and fragile, where giving offense is somehow the worst possible sin. I'm not responsible for your feelings.

I never understood why the American Flag wasn’t good enough for southerners.

I've read enough of your replies to doubt that you actually want to know the answer, but I'll respond for those who are genuinely curious. Ever met someone from NYC? How long did it take before they told you? I know a lot, and quite a few wear their regional pride on their sleeve. They feel there is a certain cachet associated with coming from the nations largest and most famous city. They also believe that the city has a different culture, set of attitudes, and outlook on life than other cities around the nation. Whether right or wrong, they feel a regional "pride" in their place of birth.

Ever met someone from New Orleans? Quite a bit of regional pride there, too. Hawaii? Boston? Texas? Regional pride seems to be a perfectly acceptable concept... unless it is for the Southeastern states. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the arrogance Northeasterners often display towards rural Americans (hicks, red-necks, flyover country, etc.), but some of it is also just competing regional pride. You put Vermont in your screen name. Why? Does it matter? Would you get upset if someone said that Vermont was a waste of a state, where bed-and-breakfasts should be the state symbol and two men holding hands on the state flag? What would it matter, right? You'd be rightly indignant at a slur against someplace you love and identify with.

No, the fact is that many people recognize that the South has a different culture and set of values than other parts of the U.S. (and for a while, especially in the 80s and 90s, that rural, working-class and ruggedly individualistic mindset was an obstacle to the globalist, nanny-state-loving, urban values promoted by the Democrats and the Deep Staters). You may not celebrate that culture, but they have every right to, and the Confederacy was a historical (and easy shorthand) part of that culture.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The American flag is a flag of treason (against Britain), and rightly celebrated for it.

[Honorary Serb]

The “design” is also and primarily the Cross of St. Andrew!! That is the reason for its use in Russian lands, among others!!!!