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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: SES1066; Norm Lenhart; SkyDancer; TADSLOS; Publius; onyx; Sarah Barracuda; miss marmelstein; ...
Unfortunately NO, they are quite sane and lethal. It is opportunism and not letting a good 'crisis' go to waste. Liberals want to destroy all of the pillars of our formerly common culture and civilization because then they get to 'build' their dream world that, THIS TIME, will work because they won't make the same mistakes as the Nazis, Soviets, Pol-Pot, Mao or those slightly misguided guys in North Korea.

After all, they are intelligent, sincere and perfectly willing to kill anyone who says anything different! Just ask Bill Ayers his plans before he became a respected educator!

You Nailed it SES.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

61 posted on 07/05/2015 3:47:04 PM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Minnesota state flag depicts a white man as a hardworking, rugged individualist, and an Indian riding a horse and holding a spear.

Riding a horse to hunt your food with a spear ISN'T hard-working, rugged, and individualist??!!?!?

62 posted on 07/05/2015 3:47:33 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Awgie
Hey, the Old White Guy is the new N****r!
Just like Blacks and Gays can do no wrong.
The Old White Guy can do nothing right.

And yet when we simply and peacefully walk away, they call it White Flight, and blame it for more ills.

Stay in place, white slave, and take our abuse and pay our bills!! Or else!

63 posted on 07/05/2015 3:50:19 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about Massachusetts?

Their flag is a white guy stabbing an Indian!

Filthy, murdering racists in Massachusetts!

I am reminded of the incident in the novel Catch-22 where the fellow jokingly talks about “The Lepage Glue Gun that sticks a whole formation of bombers together”, and then has the Intel Officer brief on that gun before the next mission.

We live in insane times.


64 posted on 07/05/2015 4:43:21 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If it had been a black man plowing the field, they’d have said it was depicting slavery and the poor guy had no weapon to protect himself from being scalped by the Indian. Can’t win with some people.


65 posted on 07/05/2015 4:46:36 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

outlaw flags. it’s the only solution that will satisfy liberals.


66 posted on 07/05/2015 4:56:22 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: SES1066
>>NO, they are quite sane and lethal <<

That is well said FRiend. We have to stop dismissing the left as crazy or dumb. The freaks that took a beating in Chicago in '68 knew what they were doing.
Its payback time and they are and not even close to transforming America into the country they want.
67 posted on 07/05/2015 5:12:05 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Minnesota would like a flag with ISIS members bombing churches ...


68 posted on 07/05/2015 5:37:01 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A collective “F@CK OFF!” would be extremely helpful in situations such as these.


69 posted on 07/05/2015 5:39:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

We were in the local Wal-Mart yesterday and on a cart was a (IMHO) 500 pound Hispanic with 6 overweight kids (one was riding in the basket - couldn’t she read ‘No Children in basket’?) and in her cart was soda, candy, cookies, cakes). I saw that her EBT was out.


70 posted on 07/05/2015 5:45:49 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

We were in the local Wal-Mart yesterday and on a cart was a (IMHO) 500 pound Hispanic with 6 overweight kids (one was riding in the basket - couldn’t she read ‘No Children in basket’?) and in her cart was soda, candy, cookies, cakes). I saw that her EBT was out.


71 posted on 07/05/2015 5:45:49 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Has anyone told the English?


72 posted on 07/05/2015 6:06:32 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Palins are better parents than Clintons.)
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To: MinuteGal

Leni I see FReepers just thrilled with the God Bless America presentations at major sporting events.

I like the song too, but unlike them I see exactly what is taking place.

The move to replace the National Anthem is moving ahead and I despise people too ignorant to catch on.


73 posted on 07/05/2015 6:17:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: MinuteGal

Am waiting for the movement to begin insisting on INDIANApolis INDIANa INDIANS changing all of their names.


74 posted on 07/05/2015 6:32:43 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?;)
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To: MinuteGal

Am waiting for the movement to begin insisting on INDIANApolis INDIANa INDIANS changing all of their names.


75 posted on 07/05/2015 6:32:43 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?;)
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To: MinuteGal
***...replaced by "God Bless America"

Who bless America?

76 posted on 07/06/2015 10:02:41 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: MinuteGal

“The long-range idea is to replace everything that smacks of our being a great, unique country, to replace our anthem, our national and various state flags, water down our holidays, traditions and principles, denigrate Christianity, patriotism and replace individuality with marxist conformity, group-think, herd-mentality, re-education courses and sensitivity-training.

In short, destroy, eradicate and replace as many of our moorings and anchors as possible.”

Absolutely correct, and bears repeating, which I just did by quoting you here above, lol.


77 posted on 07/06/2015 7:28:37 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: Catsrus
“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

I think I'm going to stop posting original posts and just post Fahrenheit 451 quotes from now on. They basically cover everything that's going on in our society. Other than the actually banning of ALL books, and the firemen actually being hired to do the job, we are just about there.

78 posted on 07/08/2015 9:37:08 AM PDT by I still care (You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” -Fahr. 45)
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To: ought-six

You are quoting Monty Python, and everyone knows Monty Python is racist. Shame on you, get the fluffy pillows.


79 posted on 07/08/2015 9:37:59 AM PDT by I still care (You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” -Fahr. 45)
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