[BnBlFlag]

There's just no end to the Leftist attacks on our precious Southern Heritage. It's past time for us to draw a line in the sand and say enoughs enough and tell these Pricks to STFU!

[Polybius]

First, rock musician Ted Nugent wore a T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups ........

If you banned every flag "somtimes used by white-supremacist groups".............

[capitalist229]

By this logic, shouldn't all Americans of Italian ancestry be condemned for their slave-holding Roman heritage ?

BUMP

[Little Ray]

the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups

Well, ya know, White-Supremacist groups also like to use the Stars and Stripes; and the Stars and Stripes are also the only American flag that ever flew over slave ships. Maybe we should ban it?

[stand watie]

PING!

free dixie,sw

[Old Professer]

Revisions are like poor chefs who blame the beans for too much ketchup.

[jimt]

The depth of ignorance and prejudice that abounds in my old home town has only grown since I left in 1983.

Seattle has become even more of a liberal mecca, and the Times has ALWAYS been a liberal rag, rumors to the contrary not withstanding.

My views of Texas largely came from tunes like Elton John's "Texas Love Song" ("...and it's ki-yi-yippee-yi-yi, you long hairs shore gonna die...") and similar propaganda. Once I came and went to the Texas folk life festival and saw the displays of Texas history (and Texas pride !) exhibited by every ethnic group you can imagine, my viewpoint seemed more than a little stupid.

Further, when I found race relations much better in the South than in my old hometown, the liberals' feet of clay were blatantly evident.

Screw the Times. I'm a proud Houstonian and Texan now. The War of Northern Agression is vastly misunderstood. And Confederate heroes deserve recognition.

While I have a deep love for Washington state, she's been known as "the Soviet Socialist Republic of Washington" since she was the headquarters of the Wobblies.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

At the flagship campus of the University of Texas, officials said they soon will convene a committee to decide what, if anything, to do about four statues of Confederate leaders, including Lee and Jefferson Davis, that greet visitors at the main campus entrance.

Leave them alone. The racial grievance-mongers and the Gramscian cultural Marxists can only do so much damage if you let them.

[Honorary Serb]

To them, the secession of Texas and the 10 other Confederate states was about more than slavery; it was a principled reaction to the North's interference in what Southerners perceived as their sovereign rights. When the fighting started, they contend, most of their ancestors took up arms in defense of their homes and families, not the institution of slavery.

The above statement is true!!!!

Moreover, the post-Civil War Union was not the United States that the Founders envisioned, but a more centralized nation on its way to evolving towards the internationalist and corporate New World Order we see today. Even Lincoln saw that, just before he died, when he talked about the undue influence of large corporations. The anti-Christianity we see today completes the picture.

The Confederate spirit represents an America with a better balance between localism and Federal power (not to mention internationalist NWO power) than we see today. The vast majority of Confederate soldiers did not own slaves, and many supporters of the Confederacy came from areas where there were no slaves at all.

And Robert E Lee was a noble man. President Harry Truman, one of our greatest Presidents in relatively recent years, had a picture of Robert E Lee in the Oval Office.

[GretchenM]

The Civil War returned all the states to one nation and freed a whole generation and all their descendants from slavery. Over half a million people died to make it so; many more were maimed for life. To persist in feeding the rebel spirit that tore so many native sons from their families dishonors what they fought, and gave their lives, for, and all who remained behind to pick up the pieces.

In 1865, the South agreed to lay down its arms -- to stop rebelling, stop fighting, and go home. This generation would do well to follow in the footsteps of the ancestors they say they revere.

Those who would challenge what I write, about letting go of the rebel spirit, I ask you to take five minutes to examine your heart and know what exactly is it you are trying to achieve?

The facts and battles and people and reason for the inception of, and conclusion of, the Civil War need to be taught to our youth. I remember being shocked as a fifth grader growing up in the North to learn we had a Civil War. The very title made no sense to me. I had the privilege of growing up in a Northern state that wasn't even a part of the United States when the Civil War was fought, which, I believe, having studied this war in my adult years, allowed our textbooks to reflect the truth.

The truth is not the enemy, neither is the North. But the unconquered rebel spirit is the source of much agitation to this day. It's not something one can feed and expect this nation to grow stronger in its unitedness. If I were a black person, I would find every effort to revive the controversy an uncomfortable stab at my gift of liberty and equality -- a gift wrapped in the blood of those who fought, North and South. In other words, the flaming fire of the rebel spirit, seeking fuel and waiting a chance to burst into flame, continues to fight against the equality and sense of safety and security of our citizens, and the integrity of this nation. Why bother with such goals? Why not rather conquer one's own heart and get on with doing those things that build up one's community?

[pepperdog]

This whole argument is so sad and unnecessary. Recently I've become interested in genealogy.....and it has brought home to me the awful destruction and separation of the civil war. Families displaced, names changed, family homes abandoned and children starving. I have ancestors on both sides! I will not allow the historical revisionists to dismiss or erase my heritage on EITHER side. People need to remember that after the Civil War there was an occasion where the old soldiers of each side thought to have a reenactment....so they aligned opposite one another, and then with a great cry ran and embraced one another. They got it! To bad the healing times seem to have been forgotten and all that remains is hatred of your conquered brothers. Some of you will not even grant them the legacy of bravery on the battlefield. And in your ignorance you probably have never researched your family far enough to find that there is a great likelihood that you are related to some of the very people you hold in such derision. For shame.

[uncitizen]

..rock musician Ted Nugent wore a T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups

And Skynyrd baby!

Seriously, do these people think they're fooling anyone with these little commentaries: "sometimes employed by Southern white supremeacist groups"? GMAFB.

[DesScorp]

It's almost torches and pitchforks time, folks.

[darthyorktown]

God, that's ridiculous. Freaking out over a guy who's proud of his heritage. Ted Nugent ain't a racist!! Heritage, not hate!

[stand watie]

here's one!

"jine the cavalry"!!!

free dixie,sw

[Smokin' Joe]

Jeeez. White supremacist groups are rumored to drink water on occasion and even eat bread! Maybe we should ban bread and water because white supremacist groups have been known to use them!

/sarc