I am Republican and conservative and, like my friends and everyone I know, I am very happy to see that flag taken down. It is a flag of treason flown by people who killed loyal Americans, who fought to destroy the U.S.; later and more recently it is the flag of white supremacy in the South to fight integration and civil rights; it is the flag that represents all of this. These are not good Republican, conservative, or American values. I did not serve in the Navy to have someone fly that flag in my face, nor will I defend it. Putting it in a museum is a charitable compromise. Else dump it in the nearest trash receptacle.
And except for addressing this with racists and bigots, I am really surprised that it even is a point to be debated. Unless that is who is defending it.
Part of me says to just drop this topic here on Freerepublic but I cannot. It bothers me that people might think and associate Republicans and conservatives with the hate, racism, and bigotry that the Confederate flag represents. I suspect and hope that most at Freerepublic also don't want that association.
Godwin’s law...you lose.
So along with the hard Left you are one of the Confederacy haters. Thanks for the clarification.
Don’t fret Reno.....just run along to a leftwing site that truly hates the South, America, Christians, etc. You would prob be more comfortable there.
“I am Republican and conservative and, like my friends and everyone I know, I am very happy to see that flag taken down.”
I’m sure you are.
Speaking of white supremacy, do you think we should destroy the monuments in Washington D.C. honoring white supremacists?
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
-Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.) To be absolutely fair - and I want to be fair - we are going to have to have a national dialog about the future of the Lincoln Memorial.
In your case it has everything to do with white guilt. You once admitted you were dealing with having “racist Southern parents.”
So you keep on trying to work that out as you assist the left in its cultural pogrom.
Way to agree with the hard left assessment of what the flag “represents,” “conservative.”
It is an historical flag and much like the Gadsden flag has taken on the meaning of resistance to tyranny.
I’m a Yankee who has lived in the South for almost 40 years. I have never had any affinity for the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. I have ordered one. Should be here next week. I also ordered a Bonny Blue flag and the first flag of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars.
“I am Republican and conservative...”
Make up your mind, will you?
Hey ask the day nurse to up your dose.
“It is a flag of treason flown by people who killed loyal Americans, who fought to destroy the U.S.;”
You really are not aware that the Confederacy declared itself to be a sovereign nation, and had no intention of invading the Union to “destroy the U.S.?
Lol