Posted on 07/19/2020 1:36:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
US 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, a symbol of US slavery and white supremacy for many Americans, was offensive.
“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.”
Trump has in the past appeared sympathetic to the flag and symbols of the Confederacy of the 1861-65 Civil War.
In 2017, he criticised the removal of monuments to the Confederacy and said there were “very fine people on both sides” of a deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
Earlier this month, he criticised NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag from its events.
Breaking with several of his fellow Republicans in Congress, Trump has promised to veto the annual National Defense Authorisation Act over an amendment to remove the names of Confederate generals from military bases within a year.
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That’s your opinion.
I’m fine with it.
I put in the words "Confederate flag" and came up with the same results......
That's a lesson in searching for you to learn.........
cowboyusa likes to throw the word traitor around.
Well come visit some of the battlefields that surround my home- and visit the cemeteries that hold our dead- the dead that fought for their brothers and family and not to keep blacks enslaved- then You’d know that the confederate flag means more to some people than the American flag because it is the flag of OUR COUNTRY- old glory is the flag of OUR NATION.
All of you freepers that call confederates traitors make me sick- like you would have fought against your kin and been just fine with it- what the hell kind of people are you that dont understand that Robert e Lee had NO CHOICE.
Freepers that don’t understand look at it through the lens of 2020 and not 1861- come see the battlefields all you fuck!ng YanKees who claim to love the U. S. But would eagerly kill your family for it.
Those memorials were paid for by donatiooofthe mothers who never saw their sons again- it what would you know of maternal grief or a father’s misery because our Johnnies didn’t come marching home! So we lot a statue in every town square to remember those that fell in far away places.
the Confederate flag is gorgeous- a symbol of courage and faith and country...and Trump grew ten feet taller today to any southerner who gets to read his comments.
Well come visit some of the battlefields that surround my home- and visit the cemeteries that hold our dead- the dead that fought for their brothers and family and not to keep blacks enslaved- then You’d know that the confederate flag means more to some people than the American flag because it is the flag of OUR COUNTRY- old glory is the flag of OUR NATION.
All of you freepers that call confederates traitors make me sick- like you would have fought against your kin and been just fine with it- what the hell kind of people are you that dont understand that Robert e Lee had NO CHOICE.
Freepers that don’t understand look at it through the lens of 2020 and not 1861- come see the battlefields all you fuck!ng YanKees who claim to love the U. S. But would eagerly kill your family for it.
Those memorials were paid for by donatiooofthe mothers who never saw their sons again- it what would you know of maternal grief or a father’s misery because our Johnnies didn’t come marching home! So we lot a statue in every town square to remember those that fell in far away places.
the Confederate flag is gorgeous- a symbol of courage and faith and country...and Trump grew ten feet taller today to any southerner who gets to read his comments.
Lincoln said with malice towards none...
Let the south hold on to their southern pride.
Freedom of speech, assembly, etc.
The South lost a war. Must the Southerners give up their identify . Keep in mind they have been American citizens, fighting in America’s wars for 150 years.
There were plenty of southerners who remained loyal.
“Seems like some Northeners can’t stomach the reconcilation that occurred long ago AND the official I.S. government recognition of Confederate as American.”
Unfortunately, some will never accept it.
I guess those who don’t, ignore the fact that since 1865 thousands of Southerners have died fighting for the United States.
Good point and I thank you for that
Valid point. Thank you
You seem to have missed what Marx actually said about the reason for the war: “The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power.” Karl Marx, 1861.
Marx was not alone. The hallowed author Charles Dickens wrote, also in 1861: “The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States.” And: “Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as many, many other evils. The quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.”
Lurkinandloomin likes to throw jersey around.
Angry black woman
Butthurt
From roid-ers and the south china morning post yeah this is legit
Ping
Why must their identity be predicated on losing a rebellion against the U.S.?
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