Posted on 07/05/2015 1:31:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It begins…
Leftists want the Minnesota flag taken down because it shows white men working on a farm and an Indian with a spear.
Seriously?
The Star Tribune reported:
“The Minnesota state flag depicts a white man as a hardworking, rugged individualist, and an Indian riding a horse and holding a spear.
The current interest in the removal of the Confederate battle flag from public displays and store shelves provides an excellent opportunity to examine what the Minnesota state flag represents. The images on the flag are interpreted by state documents as innocuous symbols of the state’s history. A critical examination of what the flag is saying, however, should make Minnesotans reconsider what their state flag projects about their state.
The state flag of Minnesota is often something that is taken for granted. Thousands of people see the flag flying without giving it a second thought. First unfurled in 1893 (a date found on the flag), it has the state seal featured prominently in its center. The seal was based on a painting by Seth Eastman and was promoted by Gov. Henry Sibley; it did engender criticism when first used in 1858, but was not changed.
The “great symbolism” of the figures on the seal, as described by the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, include an American “Indian on horseback … riding due south and [representing] the Indian heritage of Minnesota. The Indian’s horse and spear and pioneer’s ax, rifle, and plow represent tools that were used for hunting and labor” (Minnesota Legislative Manual).
A close examination shows the central figure to be a white pioneer dressed in work clothes, wearing a wide-brim hat and pushing a plow. He is an iconic image of a hardworking, rugged individualist who works alone to chop the trees, plow the land and protect his home. He is looking over his shoulder at the Indian, who is riding a horse and holding a spear.
There is one square inch of skin showing! So obviously the only thing that tells them he’s white is that he’s working!
To their small, distorted minds, this is a symbol of oppression. It’s all about oppressor and oppressed, to these people.
First, the confederate flag, now this. There will be more and more, and it will never stop.
The self hate white liberals carry must be a horrible burden.
He looks really angry. Maybe some anger management after the utopian new world is forged is in order.
The bows (unless you got a lucky neck shot or knee shot) mostly served to slow the buffalo down.
And hunting wasn't for fun. If you didn't harvest enough buffalo for the tribe, you'd spend the winter gathering pine nuts, digging roots, ice fishing and/or starving to death. Often, a combination of all the foregoing.
“Because It Shows White Man Working”
Oh! The horrors!!!!
“(2) Add an overweight black woman riding on an electric cart in Walmart. “
Oh, we have plenty of white ones here. I’ve always wondered if morbid obesity should be considered a handicap or a self-inflicted wound.
A sickle and hammer would be perfectly acceptable to them.
Brilliant.
The new emblem should have a white man holding food stamps and an Indian working as a Blackjack dealer.
Once again Minnesota liberals have to take their “white guilt” to new heights. White Minnesota liberals can take a flying leap off the Mendota Bridge.
Ha! I sooo predicted this!!
These people will never stop trying to destroy America.
I guess because it's red, but has some blue elements and white stars...and we all know, red, white, and blue flags with white stars are irredemably racist... /s
That’s about right.
America has become silly.
Oh, my God! There's no woman, Asians, Hispanic or disabled people on the flag, either. . . and it has a gun depicted. How can the bear to fly it over schools in Minnesota? BAN IT IMMEDIATELY!
Do I need a sarcasm tag?
“Replace with old white man working, and welfare types eating and sleeping.”
Minnesota? A Somali muzz living off the public dime would be an appropriate symbol for the Minnesota flag.
Good Grief! California’s flag bears the image of an extinct bear! The animal lovers will surely object.
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