Posted on 06/20/2015 2:54:05 PM PDT by PROCON
J. Richard Cohen is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Exactly whose heritage does it celebrate?
Following the church shooting this week, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered powerful words of healing and said the “people of South Carolina need us to come together and be strong.”
But at the same time the state’s citizens are being urged to “come together,” the state continues to display a divisive symbol — the Confederate flag — outside the state Capitol.
Reacting to calls to remove it, Sen. Lindsey Graham said the flag “is part of who we are.”
His answer makes me wonder just who Graham means by “we.” Does he mean the white people of South Carolina? Does he mean the neo-Confederates of South Carolina? Surely he doesn’t mean the African Americans in his state whose ancestors were enslaved, tortured and murdered under the regime represented by that flag. Surely he doesn’t mean older African Americans who still recall the terrorism of Klansmen who adopted the flag as their standard during Jim Crow. Surely not.
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They are the very thing they accuse others of being. They are a hate group.
Those who erase history....
I probably should not mention this as they may not know it but the Florida State Flag contains the Cross of St. Andrew taken from the Confederate Battle Flag.
I have never flown the Battle Flag but if they ever ban it, I will begin to.
Damn it man. they cannot even get the name of the flag right. It is called the Confederate Battle Flag. The CSA had up to 3 different national flag.
Molon labe
Didn't one of the colleges recently tell their female students that they can no longer wear "southern belle" style dresses at school events? Like women's fashions of that time period (which mostly originated in France), were a symbol of oppression and slavery. The same style dress was worn in the north. Dumb asses. Next they'll go after Civil War re-enactors.
Southern Poverty Law Centerpoverty?
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Mississippi ping
Of course some supported the Yankees, but then, why did carpetbaggers come into Austin and take over our government? Hell they even forced another constitution on us with a firearms restriction in it. Don't believe it, just read the history of the Texas Constitution... Or, prove me wrong.
My tag line agrees with you.....
First they come for your flag, next they come for your gun.
Look at history. In the Civil War there was USCT. That stands for United States Colored Troops. The name stopped after the Civil War but the policies in fact did not. WW2 saw segregated units in combat and in units doing construction such as the Trans Alaskan Highway. The two need to visit a National Cemetery established in The Civil War and read the headstones on the graves. Entire sections with USCT under the soldiers name. I'm thinking segregation in the Navy came about sometime in the 1960's and up until then non whites were not allowed many ratings.
The Civil War is one place Smedley Butler's theory on wars applied. Politically it was about states rights. Lincoln himself wanted to send slaves back to Africa upon conclusion of the war. It was also northern industrialist vs southern industrialist and some very rich families fighting for control of even the entire nations business. The industrialized north which had built it's infrastructure on the backs of slave labor were seeing slavery as a liability for them and a threat upcoming southern industries would do likewise building up the south. So they pushed for abolishing slavery. Not out of any moral conscience but rather a business maneuver. Those fights lasted into the early 1900's. Slavery in the USA lasted both in the northern and southern states into the early 1960's. Anyone believing otherwise should understand the concept of the Company Store and corporate owned towns in isolated communities.
The CSA fought an honorable fight and their causes were both as right and also as wrong as the north's cause was. When it was all over and done in the south both former slaves and former owners did not fair well. For survival sharecropping became common. Whites working fields along with and among blacks for several generations. Blacks in the north though free were not paid as equals, got the low end jobs, and was also largely segregated.
Mitt and Cohen obviously weren't in class when that part of American history was taught. Or did they get the new improved re-written by Marxist politically correct version of it which showed up in public and private education after WW2?
Ay, no esta mierda otra vez! Hasn’t this confederate flag hate been brought up just about every year recently?
A lot of my neighbors out here display the stars and bars on ranch gates, fences, etc, no matter whether they are Anglo, Hispanic or Black-try to make redneck rural people take those flags down, and I guarantee it will not go well-GFY, Richard Cohen...
You can lead a Liberal/GOPe to a library but you can’t make them read!
Something like that?
Good. You should be deeply offended. Why?
They’ll have to pry my Southern accent from my cold dead lips. Awrite now, all yall that don’t like it ain’t got tuh lissen to it, you kin jist set rite down in ‘iss cheer ryecheer an’ behave yoself or jist git on down da road an’ don’t bother comin’ back. Yuh heah?
> Not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China...
The black part of Cohen wants the Confederate flag removed from U.S culture.
That damn First Amendment is one large problem.
But, they will keep pecking away.
Hell...even here in the heart of Babylon, the soviet state of Red Hampshire; there is a pick-up that drives around flying the Second Confederate Navy Jack. Whenever I see it, I salute or give him a thumbs up.
They’ll never be satisfied with just a flag. It’s not really about the flag to them. It would never stop there. So they can foad for all I care.
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