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Black lawmakers call for removal of Confederate flag on government property
The Hill ^ | June 25, 2015 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 06/26/2015 6:54:02 AM PDT by C19fan

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for a national ban on the use of the Confederate flag on any government property — including license plates.

The CBC lawmakers introduced a resolution Thursday in the aftermath of last week's racially motivated shooting during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine people.

"A hate crime of this nature must lead to effective legislation that will curtail similar incidences in the future," CBC Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carolinashooting; confederate; confederateflag; dixie; lookaflag; revisionisthistory; thuggery
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To: Sherman Logan
Minor modification, then. If one 'identifies' as having one drop of black blood, then one is black.

And spray on tans count, too.

41 posted on 06/26/2015 8:21:18 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: C19fan
I could scarcely believe my ears when I saw on CNN ,a new assault. A usual suspect claimed a move was afoot to change the names of US Army bases. A number were named after Confederate Generals such as Fort Hood, Fort Bragg and Fort Beauregard.

I can hardly believe it, but like the energizer bunny, the zealots keep on going. Hopefully they will run out of whatever drives them on a single subject.

42 posted on 06/26/2015 8:27:27 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra; C19fan

Rumor control has Fort Hood being renamed for Union General Thomas (Rock of Chickamauga) and Fort Beauregard being renamed for Union General Ambrose Burnside.


43 posted on 06/26/2015 9:40:39 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Sherman Logan
Demanding that Southern Colors be “Struck”from all government buildings is NOT about racism. It's about slavery.

The South waged a war against the North to preserve its perceived right to own slaves. To enslave human beings against their will at the point of a gun, whip, chains and dogs. The war was fought under the Colors of the “Stars and Bars,” the Southern battle flag.

The South got is ass handed to it in that war and were forced to surrender. But they did not fully do so.

Certain protocol's were not demanded by the North and in the mind of people in the South, the war never ended.

When an army is vanquished in war, it surrenders and its Colors are “Struck” from all official sites. That is lowered. Lowering the battle flag is the internationally recognized symbol of surrender. In its place the winners flag is raised.

The internationally recognized symbol of refusal to surrender, even in the face of total loss is to “Nail Colors to the Mast!” It is a sign of defiance. Doing so says F—k Y-u!

That's what the South has been doing since June 1865. F—k Y-u! In defiance of the law the South continued their immoral activity of enslaving, and brutalizing human beings.

Now the time has come for the South to “Strike the Colors.”

Lower the Stars and Bars and all the rot it represents.

44 posted on 06/26/2015 9:52:00 AM PDT by submarine571 (Submariners do it deeper)
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To: Sherman Logan

We need to remind the “children” that you don’t always get what you want. In this case we’ve already given them far more than what they need which is very obvious by their self-entitled attitude.


45 posted on 06/26/2015 10:04:16 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: C19fan

Lets be fair. It can now be replaced with the rainbow flag.


46 posted on 06/26/2015 10:04:54 AM PDT by JayAr36 ( Watch the news and see America going down the drain.)
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To: submarine571

Get the hell off this site you miserable wretch of a human being.


47 posted on 06/26/2015 10:08:58 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: FirstFlaBn
this hypothetical buyback of slaves would have been paid for mostly with the taxes of the slaveowners.

How do you figure that? I thought slaveowners were a tiny percentage of the population?

In actual fact, any such program would have been paid mostly by northerners, since they outnumbered southerners by such a large proportion.

It is of course similar to the way that blacks would pay for part of their own reparations.

That brings up an interesting idea. Give blacks each $1M in reparations, then tax the reparations at 100%, withheld.

Everybody's happy!

48 posted on 06/26/2015 10:11:12 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: submarine571

> That’s what the South has been doing since June 1865. F—k Y-u! In defiance of the law the South continued their immoral activity of enslaving, and brutalizing human beings.

I don’t recall owning a slave and neither did my father or his grandfather so I don’t see the truth in that.


49 posted on 06/26/2015 10:11:13 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Red Badger
‘Cultural Cleansing’ has come to America. Can ‘Political Cleansing’ or ‘Ideological Cleansing’ be far behind?.........................

We know where this ends.

They try to kill us. And then we respond.

Be aware. Be prepared. Do not hesitate.

50 posted on 06/26/2015 10:13:03 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: ohioman

> Get the hell off this site you miserable wretch of a human being.

We do have a few DemoRat spies on here that rear their ugly head every once in awhile. The handles they use trying to appear conservative can be pretty amusing.


51 posted on 06/26/2015 10:31:15 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

You got that right. I am sure that Jim will purge a few of these Demorat trolls over the next few days.


52 posted on 06/26/2015 2:46:45 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: ohioman

Some of the trolls appear to be black men that have got caught up in this all white men hate black man tripe. Its simply not the truth. Do they REALLY think we approve of a young white psychotic kid hopped up on drugs going into their churches and shooting and killing innocent black people or for that matter, ANYONE, including liberals (though sometimes I flipflop on this). HELL NO! I’ll put it this way if ANY of our church members that have CCL (including white men) were in attendance that Sunday we would have turned around and filled that white boy full of lead. Hell I have a young black gal that I’ve taught to play guitar for years. Love her to death. She’s a great girl and everyone of the white people in our church love her to death too and are very protective of her. I’m getting perturbed at an administration and all the typical race agitators using emotion and false flag events or staging protests to make it seem like white people are their enemy. We are NOT. The agitators are doing it to put us at each others throats for profit and votes and to try out their damn social experiments. I wish more black people would wake up and realize how they’re being manipulated and realize this is just a good vs. bad situation and would join forces with other good white people and run the manipulators out of town.


53 posted on 06/26/2015 3:46:39 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Great post!


54 posted on 06/26/2015 5:36:12 PM PDT by ohioman
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