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Rand Paul: Confederate Flag “Inescapably A Symbol Of Human Bondage And Slavery”
Buzzfeed News ^ | June 23, 2015 | Andrew Kaczynski, news reporter

Posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“… I think to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s times to put it in a museum.”

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he believes the Confederate battle flag is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” and needs to go.

“No, I agree, I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,” Paul told radio host Jeff Kuhner on WKRO radio on Tuesday morning.”

Paul added it was obviously a decision for South Carolina to make but said if he were in South Carolina he would vote to get rid of it. Paul said for every African-American the flag is a symbol of slavery and it was time to put in a museum.

“There have been people who have used it for southern pride and heritage and all of that but really to I think to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum.”

Here’s the audio:

(AUDIO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Kentucky; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016electionbias; andrewkaczynski; blacks; buzzfeed; charleston; confederateflag; election2016; fail; flagphobia; kaczucker; kentucky; libertarian; lping; panderbear; pravdamedia; randpaul; rino; tedcruz
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He's soooooo courageous!
1 posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Joooz. Don’t forget about the evil Joooooz. < /sarc >


2 posted on 06/23/2015 8:53:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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They’ll be calling for the demolition of Stone Mountain by the end of the week.


3 posted on 06/23/2015 8:55:59 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970

Wouldn’t surprise me.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:03 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ISIS flags are tied to executions, Islam has murdered thousands, mosques continue to preach their constant hatred. Hon about caring about most of us rather than a few offended?


5 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone ask him about Israel’s right to exist.
Watch his head asplode.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: mmichaels1970

People in KY stayed in the Union; they don’t like Confederate flags there.


7 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:38 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At this point the paranoia over the Confederate battle flag is getting even more annoying than the annoying pro-treason screeds of the Confederacy’s modern apologists.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 9:00:25 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Back in the 70s and 80s the Confederate Flag just meant, at least to us Northern Kids, “the South” or “Rebel”: Dukes of Hazzard, Skynyrd, even Tom Petty all sported the flag in a harmless, non racial, sense.

I respect the viewpoint of people that still feel it means that.

Still, sometimes symbols get co-opted to the point where the general meaning has been corrupted and the “negative” connotation is too widely accepted for it to be worthwhile to keep arguing about the original, benign, meaning.

(See, for example, the Roman salute and the Swastika).

I’ve thought the Confederate flag might be at that point for a while now.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 9:00:26 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, was he asked about, Our Flag of the United States of America?


10 posted on 06/23/2015 9:01:09 PM PDT by RedHeeler (...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another uninformed looser trying to rewrite history into something it isn’t.


11 posted on 06/23/2015 9:01:18 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: mmichaels1970

I spent a week of my life as a child here. It was awesome, would go again!

12 posted on 06/23/2015 9:01:53 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go to hell, you weasel!


13 posted on 06/23/2015 9:07:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Theodore R.
>> People in KY stayed in the Union; they don’t like Confederate flags there. <<

True. Rand's daddy is also from Pennsylvania so I doubt Rand's childhood was spent lionizing the lost cause.

But Rand's stance must suck for people who are both Paulbots (if you disagree with Dr. Paul, you hate the Constitution) and neo-confederates (the south was fightin' for STATES RIGHTS and it had nuthin' to do with slavery!!). Most of the Pat Buchanan types fall into that camp. I imagine they're pulling their hair out now trying to figure out what to do.

14 posted on 06/23/2015 9:07:55 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: mmichaels1970

Yes.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: mmichaels1970

you ain’t just a whistlin’ Dixie....(that’s next!)


16 posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:11 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go to hell, you weasel!


17 posted on 06/23/2015 9:08:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtlUi3OJ_c


18 posted on 06/23/2015 9:09:53 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: wideawake

19 posted on 06/23/2015 9:10:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” WHAT? Slavery is illegal in the Untied States. No one suffers in slavery under that battle flag, that is idiotic. Many flags exist today that existed during the time of slavery.

Im going to fly my CSA battle flag tomorrow just because these idiot politicians say I shouldn't.

20 posted on 06/23/2015 9:11:00 PM PDT by GregoTX (Remember the Alamo)
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