Posted on 06/24/2015 3:34:38 PM PDT by Sopater
The debate over the rebel flag that began anew after last week's church shootings in Charleston, S.C., has morphed into a full-blown Confederate controversy.
While Stars and Bars have long been associated by many with slavery, the latest campaign to remove Confederate emblems has extended beyond the flag to statues, memorials, parks and even school mascots. Never has the debate over what symbolizes heritage and what stands for hate covered so much ground, as efforts to strip icons that have been part of the visual and cultural landscape of the South for decades are afoot at national, state and local levels.
In one Arkansas town, the school board voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the song "Dixie" for the next school year and phase out “Rebel,” the school’s mascot.
“It came to our attention that the public has been pretty upset about the Confederate flag, which has already been removed, the rebel mascot [and] the playing of the ‘Dixie,’” Fort Smith, Ark., school board member Susan McFerran told reporters after the board voted for the changes.
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Just like ISIS, they want to wipe out 154 years of this country’s history.
The Gadsden flag is next. Once it became a TEA party emblem, its days were numbered.
Yes I agree with all of that in your post . And also the news media are pure evil far left ultra rabid marxist political activists hell bent on taking away all our individual rights and freedom
The news media are the puppet masters .And we are all puppets in their false reality they created . We all react to what they spoon feed us when instead we should call them out and say that is not news but media manufactured crisis
How many are offended by the gay flag?
You got it.
This is collectivism Amerikan style.
The cadre makes a cause celeb, and the fellow
travelers jump on to ride the wave.
Ask yourself this, considering the growing number
of indoctrinated youth in this country, how long
before the Stars and Stripes gets the same treatment.
How long before the founding documents are reviled and
reputiated, some already feel that way and if the rest
of us will not stand up, we’ll all end up on our knees.
The Communists did the same thing to the serfs and middle
and upper class in Russia with a continuing heavy hand
once they seized power. Why would any thinking person
think that they would change their end game. They know
that it wouldn’t work against an armed nation so they
have been infiltrating our society and our educational
system for the last 50 years with one goal in mind,
political domination, another 8 years of demorat
“leadership” will give them all they need to run
the table. Don’t give in, fight them on all fronts,
from the school board, to the county, city, state,
and everywhere they have inculcated their socialist
followers. And by that I mean even well meaning
mushy liberalists who are not even aware they are
being used.
Fly the Rebel Flag, it’s your right as an American
or isn’t this America any more?!
We have got to toe a hard line or we are DONE.
“May the chains of slavery rest lightly upon them,
because after all, THEY were responsible for the
forging of them” t68.
Yesterday on another thread I predicted they’d call for the destruction of Stone Mountain by the end of the week. Here it comes.
Inclined to agree. Freedoms are being eroded at quantum speeds. Hopefully there are enough of us with the guts to stand firm and fire when we see the whites of their eyes if needed
At some point, the US Constitution itself will be declared a symbol of racism and oppression, and they will demand that it be erased from our history and public consciousness.
Over in the Middle East the Islamic terrorists are destroying the ‘heritage’ of any NON-ISLAMS.
Here, in the West, we are doing it for them.
Actually, I will fly Mine on that same day, the 27th,
and I challenge ANYONE to come and try and burn it!
Come on you Sons of Bitches, do you want to live forever?
No Balls...
Only now they are doing it more blatantly and we can see the power these monsters in the media have. The media create the false reality we live in .
We can see the programmed robots reacting to the media instructions . But we can see that they are acting on lies .that is not reality . It's ridiculous for all these morons to ban all these symbols of the confederacy etc. it's a false crises created by the news media
The media don't do all this propaganda and mind control for good but for evil to destroy freedom and the individual, to keep us small ,weak and dependent on government without any rights at all even to freedom of speech
That means Ole Miss will lose the Rebels name and the mascot of the southern gentlemen looks like Col sanders will be gone. will it affect KFC?, considered a southern icon. Wonder if they will go after Long john Silvers, Popeyes too?
I did my graduate degree work in Mississippi and second master in Wisconsin. All this is going after the Southern Culture - history, heritage, food, football family values, biblical values, idioms - fixin to go, hi Ya’ll, Honey sweetheart will go away.
I have a new Confederate being sent for me to pt up on a new flag pole. Guess what they are not done yet, they will be going after Midwest Values next.
The entire South is under assault now. This is becoming a REAL problem that even the apathetic can not ignore any more.
Bought a new sticker today with the battle flag on it and it is now on my van.
Got a flag flying on some land which is mine and tomorrow I will be putting another battle flag out on a friends land right next to I-95 for all to see.
“With the Dems, the truth doesn’t matter- it’s all about feeeeelings, however wrong they may be.”
That’s one of the many reasons I utterly despise Democrats.
The North and the South were always at odds over who got to claim Dixie as “theirs”. The day after the civil war, Lincoln jokingly claimed the song for the north as spoils of war fairly won.
A photograph of the Confederate Flag held by a insane person certainly requires use of an opportuity for deflection from his so called manifesto as his murderous excuse; Citing the assults and murders of completely innocent whites, “hispanics, and asians, committed by black youths and their reason given was; “ The cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin” .Doesn’t it ?
A photograph of the Confederate Flag held by a insane person certainly requires use of an opportuity for deflection from his so called manifesto as his murderous excuse; Citing the assults and murders of completely innocent whites, “hispanics, and asians, committed by black youths and their reason given was; “ The cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin” .Doesn’t it ?
Less than 24 hours ago I predicted the PC Cops would do this. I’ve heard various places are removing all references to Robert E. Lee, and forbidding the playing of Dixie. I saw it coming.
I must be a physic....er.....ah....a psychic!
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