Posted on 08/06/2009 11:14:41 AM PDT by poetbdk
Does the Confederate Flag offend you? http://www.sodahead.com/question/537677/does-the-confederate-flag-offend-you/ I came across this question asked at SodaHead.com that has produced a lively discussion with over 2500 comments. I thought I would post it here at Free Republic and see if it gets a similiar response.
Nope. I have on at home. What does offend me is the thin-skinned idiots that it does offend.
yup. looks like a big #10
If you really want to bring up that line of argument then I will bring up the war crimes committed by the Union army.
I agree with you! We are still being boycotted by the NAACP just for having it on our State House grounds. Go figure, it flew atop the State Capital for many, many, decades and just recently it has become a problem?? Hmmm..looks like “manufactured” anger to me.
I also can blow my nose or wrap a clean one around my head on a hot day.
I'd say that more atrocities were committed against Southerners by Confederates that by the Union army.
No
No
Someone who finally has posed the question in the proper way with a frame of reference. Thanks.
“permitted the privilege...”
To Hell with that! If they try to ban it, the War will resume immediatly as far as I’m concerned.
Anything that ticks off the left does not offend me.
No - and I’m a longtime Yankee now living in Atlanta.
NY Yankee always liked the Confederate flag. If some don’t lke it then they shouldn’t fly it.
Got a quote for that?
The facts (troublesome things, heh?)...
Apparently they are to some.
...are that only 5% of Southerners owned any slaves.
When I was growing up our only automobile was in my father's name. You could say, correctly, that only 20% of the family owned an automobile. But 100% of the family derived benefit from that ownership. Likewise slavery. Only 5% may have owned slaves, but they had wives and children who took benefit from the slave ownership. A better statistic is to look at slave owners as a percentage of families. In 1860 there were states like Mississippi where almost half of all families owned slaves. Throughout the original seven seceding states well over one-third of all people came from slave owning families. Many more who didn't own slaves made their living from those that did.
And it was Yankee traders who introduced slavery into the South.
I believe it was the Dutch who brought the first blacks over from Africa.
And the first black slave was owned by ... a black man.
A handy Southern tale, but one which is completely false.
Sorry for the long post; but ignorance must never be allowed to exist.
And yet there it is still.
Absolutely Not!
No it does not!!!!
I always go back and double check my facts.
1. Correction on the years; it started in 1803 to protest the Louisiana Purchase. One of the most vocal proponents of Yankee secession was Senator Timothy Pickering of MA, Postmaster General and Secretary of State. (”Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War”, pp 19-20)
2. Sir, your statistics are as flawed as your logic. There is no benefit to the people who owned no slaves; they worked the land themselves. Out of a population of 6 million, 336,000 families owned ANY slaves. This is the distribution of slaves in the South (1860):
http://thomaslegion.net/holdingsofsouthernslaveownersbystatesin1860.html
3. The ship you mention was thought to be Dutch, but that cannot be ascertained. The year was 1620; the place was Jamestown, VA. In 1637, the ship Desire was launched in MA and designed for the slave trade. (”The South Was Right”, p.64)
4. Not a myth - American Heritage, vol 441 “Selling Poor Steven” tells of the first slave owner in Virginia, one Anthony Johnson of Northampton, VA, who was black and his African slave, John Casor.
You might try reading something other than the pablum served im the Yankee public schools. It might challenge some of that propoganda.
Deo vindice
Nope, I fly it too. Every time I get really pissed off, up she goes.
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