Posted on 10/12/2015 12:19:36 AM PDT by bob_denard
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil-rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams, Mississippi-born rapper David Banner and a prominent South Carolina lawmaker are calling on Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag.
About 400 people took part in a change-the-flag rally Sunday outside the Mississippi Capitol. No alternative design was proposed, but rally leaders said the flag is racially divisive. Three men holding large flags with various Confederate emblems watched the rally from a distance across the Capitol lawn.
The emblem — a blue X with 13 white stars, over a red field — has been on Mississippi's flag since 1894, and voters chose to keep it in 2001. But the massacre of nine black worshippers in June at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, has renewed the debate about the public display of Confederate symbols.
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I wonder of SC Governor Nikki Haley joined them. She did her frenzied best to promote attacks on the flag, claimed that the Confederate battle flag causes homicides. Maybe she knows it doesn’t, but lied to have an excuse to attack our history.
No, the whole country knew exactly what happened when Fort Sumter was fired upon. No different than Pearl Harbor.
i emailed everyone about that story.
as long as starbucks serves lattes are whatever the @#$ they are called, it wont matter. as long as ipads or tablets or whatever the @#$@#$ they’re called work, it wont matter.
generation of dolts.
half those under 30 say they would move to another country if they could.
should be easy enough. why are they still here?
Well said. If people would just choose to take note of the crime statistics, both black-on-black and black-on-white, maybe they would finally understand the logical necessity (not to mention the God-given right) for freedom of association. But crime statistics are “hate facts”, just ask John Derbyshire.
wardaddy has used this argument on another thread. I asked him what his solution is regarding the “numbers” problem he sees. He says “no one dares to go there” implying northerners are too afraid to look at the problem, but then he won’t answer the question either, he just ignores it. It’s hypocritical of him to point his finger at northerners when he won’t offer his solution.
Pretty soon they won’t need to bother moving, the “vibrant diversity” they seek will be right here in their own neighborhoods. It seems to me that we could have gotten the recipes for tacos, etc, without having to import at least half of Mexico here, to eat them (since the only tangible “plus” I ever hear given as the reason for “diversity is our strength” is cuisine. We managed to have French cuisine without importing half of France).
Would you wish to live in a black governed city?
No different than Pearl Harbour?
Geez....that’s ridiculous and pretty far fetched even for your bunch
No kidding, I dont give a @#$@# about what cultural aspects ethnics hold onto in their own house.
Hell, we still have that dam fish dinner on Good Friday and play old Italian songs that the kids dont recognize at all.
Love the Columbus Day Parade in the city (@#$@# the new drive to name it native american day).
Try that on Staten Island or Bronxville.
But it is ALL secondary to being American!!!
Not a little. alot!!!
When Italy falls to ISIS, which it will eventually, my mother, if she’s still alive will be devastated, i will be a little upset, and the third generation won’t give a @#$#$.
Wake up “hispanics”. Youre in America.
Mexico had its chance to tame the south and west. they were too dam lazy.. tough.
I wish to live in a conservative-governed city.
I don't dispute your concerns, I dispute the allegation that the south's problems are the fault of northerners. The south willingly set the ratios.
You are absolutely wrong! When the south attacked Fort Sumter, the volunteers jumped at the chance to fight, they knew it was war, just like Pearl Harbor.
“Maybe she knows it doesn’t, but lied to have an excuse to attack our history.”
Why would she care- Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley doesn’t share our history. Imports don’t have roots here.
Are you saying the south fired on Fort Sumter because of John Brown, or that John Brown represented the US government?
Liberals have nothing on you lost-causers when it comes to revisionism. lol
Willingly my ass
Your team wanted them freed and to stay put so they could neutralize the political power of disenfranchised whites in Reconstruction however possible
The north did not welcome ex slaves with open arms
They promised land reform down south not up north coincidentally just like modern day democrats would but never delivered and concocted black codes to keep it white up there
You didn’t want them they were just a tool
Blacks didn’t move north in real numbers till Henry Ford
And what did the noble Yankee do
Why he segregated them and made his own Klan
The biggest klan there ever was
And nothings changed
Libtards and GOPe in cobalt blue states with a few segregated blacks here and there in their rotten cities are still dictating how we should deal with The Negro Problem and our history to suit them when even they though have 10-20% the blacks we do they are worse off under your loving attention
Which is why so many are returning to here which is the only home they ever really had cause the wonderful North really didn’t want them
In fact now the noble north and fellow travelers nationwide have moved on to freeing and importing brown people to consolidate more utopian excess
Thanks for playing PG it’s been awhile
I'm sure it sounds like revisionism to someone who thinks that the version of history he learned in elementary school is gospel.
Vitriolic attacks on the South as the hated Slave Power were already going strong in the North by 1800 election of Thomas Jefferson.
John Adam's Secretary of State Timothy Pickering was a prime mover in all of it and John Quincy Adams did his share as well. Pickering was part of the powerful Essex Junto of Massachusetts that had formed in the 1770s. Pickering and his band of Federalists hated the South enough that they tried to get New England to secede from Jefferson's United States.
That was just the beginning of the decades long campaign against the South that culminated in the Civil War. Historian Thomas Fleming examines this forgotten part of American history in his recent book A Disease in the Public Mind. Probably not a book for those who like to believe that the Civil War began with Ft Sumter so you may want to skip it.
Yes willingly. The south willingly imported 4 million Africans to slavery. They willingly set the ratios that you now blame the north for.
Your team wanted them freed and to stay put so they could neutralize the political power of disenfranchised whites in Reconstruction however possible
Oh, so no one was against slavery because it was evil, only to neutralize the voting power of southern whites. Where the hell do you get this BS? What did southern whites support that northern whites didn't?
The north did not welcome ex slaves with open arms They promised land reform down south not up north coincidentally just like modern day democrats would but never delivered and concocted black codes to keep it white up there You didn’t want them they were just a tool Blacks didn’t move north in real numbers till Henry Ford And what did the noble Yankee do Why he segregated them and made his own Klan The biggest klan there ever was And nothings changed
Hey, you're preaching to the choir about the semi-Nazi Henry Ford.
Libtards and GOPe in cobalt blue states with a few segregated blacks here and there in their rotten cities are still dictating how we should deal with The Negro Problem and our history to suit them when even they though have 10-20% the blacks we do they are worse off under your loving attention
Oh, so they're not culpable at all for their poverty? It's all northern white's fault? The media and the Democratic Party try keep them down. I've fought all my adult life to give them a political situation that would help them. They were definitely a lot happier under Reagan than since. Let's try the conservative way again, let them make their own way under a free-er system rather than living off government and affirmative action.
Which is why so many are returning to here which is the only home they ever really had cause the wonderful North really didn’t want them In fact now the noble north and fellow travelers nationwide have moved on to freeing and importing brown people to consolidate more utopian excess
Democrats want more Democrats. I fight them.
Thanks for playing PG it’s been awhile
Yeah, I actually work and stay busy, not sit on the internet and whine about 150 year old spilled milk all day.
Well-deserved. Slavery since the crucifixion is evil.
John Adam's Secretary of State Timothy Pickering was a prime mover in all of it and John Quincy Adams did his share as well. Pickering was part of the powerful Essex Junto of Massachusetts that had formed in the 1770s. Pickering and his band of Federalists hated the South enough that they tried to get New England to secede from Jefferson's United States. That was just the beginning of the decades long campaign against the South that culminated in the Civil War. Historian Thomas Fleming examines this forgotten part of American history in his recent book A Disease in the Public Mind. Probably not a book for those who like to believe that the Civil War began with Ft Sumter so you may want to skip it.
Fort Sumter was the start of the war. People hate people, always will. You and others on this thread hate northerners and want to secede as much as anyone you mention hated the south and wanted to be separate from them. But until there is another Fort Sumter, it is just talk that always has existed, always will.
“Well-deserved. Slavery since the crucifixion is evil.”
So are you consistent and include George Washington in your list of evil men?
Interesting that you include the crucifixion. I wonder why Paul told Onesimus to return to Philemon instead of telling Philemon to free him. Did Paul not get the memo?
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