[Oshkalaboomboom]

Well Mr. PC Policeman did it ever occur to you that there are also many Americans who don't? When Mr. Cowing can walk the space walk instead of sitting on the sideline talking the space talk then he can decide what flag he'd like to carry on the space station.

[EveningStar]

Blacks can still take pride that they were there first.

[The Red Zone]

In space no one can hear you whistle "Dixie."

[betsyross1776]

If there is room enough for we shall over come , then there is room enough for dixie. The confederate flag is part of American history. Too bad we have bad memories of that time , but nevertheless it did occur. Maybe the guy was from the south, so what!

[Nowhere Man]

Well I'm tuning around my special TV with the alternate worlds adapter and I have seen interesting things:



From Timeline #206, AKA Dixie-6, I have found this picture of the first man on the Moon from the CSA:

[gondramB]

>>“You'd think that someone on the U.S. side of the ISS program would have expressed some concern about flying a symbol on the ISS that many Americans associate with slavery,” Cowing wrote.<<


So he thinks we should impose speech restrictions on Russians about American history - what a moron.

[Altura Ct.]

To all who may be interested. Here is a great collection of articles the Hartford Courant did several years back with regards to slavery and the north.

Complicity - How Connecticut Chained itself to Slavery

http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-slavery,0,3581810.special?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld