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It Begins… Liberals Want Minnesota Flag Taken Down Because It Shows White Man Working
Gateway Pundit ^ | July 5, 2015 | Jim Hoft

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.


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; indians; minnesota; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


21 posted on 07/05/2015 1:57:40 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The self hate white liberals carry must be a horrible burden.


22 posted on 07/05/2015 1:58:31 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: donna

He looks really angry. Maybe some anger management after the utopian new world is forged is in order.


23 posted on 07/05/2015 1:58:53 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Senator_Blutarski
Hate to point out what should be obvious, but it is probable that the Indian is working as well. Spears were used on buffalo hunts more often than bows.

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.

24 posted on 07/05/2015 2:09:08 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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State of Washington - While we are at it he owned slaves

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Washington DC - While we are at it he owned slaves

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DC based their flag on the Washington family coat of arms

25 posted on 07/05/2015 2:10:17 PM PDT by QT3.14 (When will the Pope come out with his book: "The Audacity of Pope"?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Because It Shows White Man Working”

Oh! The horrors!!!!


26 posted on 07/05/2015 2:11:21 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

“(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.


27 posted on 07/05/2015 2:14:26 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A sickle and hammer would be perfectly acceptable to them.


28 posted on 07/05/2015 2:14:31 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I visited the Minnesota state museum back during the summer of 1993. They had a sign in book for everyone and each state had their own page except Mississippi. Mississippi was a racist state and they didn't want us there. They are idiots and liberals. A refrigerator in the history section has more to it than the 1st Minnesota from the Civil War.
29 posted on 07/05/2015 2:17:49 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: rawcatslyentist

Brilliant.


30 posted on 07/05/2015 2:18:05 PM PDT by Jimmy4Toes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The new emblem should have a white man holding food stamps and an Indian working as a Blackjack dealer.


31 posted on 07/05/2015 2:20:00 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


32 posted on 07/05/2015 2:20:27 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha! I sooo predicted this!!


33 posted on 07/05/2015 2:21:29 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people will never stop trying to destroy America.


34 posted on 07/05/2015 2:22:39 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey, I've seen complaints about our Tennessee flag too:

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

35 posted on 07/05/2015 2:26:10 PM PDT by Doug Loss
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To: Senator_Blutarski

That’s about right.


36 posted on 07/05/2015 2:28:59 PM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America has become silly.


37 posted on 07/05/2015 2:30:47 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Replace with old white man working, and welfare types eating and sleeping.

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?

38 posted on 07/05/2015 2:31:13 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Scrambler Bob

“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.


39 posted on 07/05/2015 2:32:14 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good Grief! California’s flag bears the image of an extinct bear! The animal lovers will surely object.


40 posted on 07/05/2015 2:32:17 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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