Posted on 07/12/2015 9:11:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
In the wake of the shootings in Charleston, an amazing national groundswell of support has built for removing the Confederate flags that have flown from state capitals throughout the South. Businesses like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart have banned the selling of flags and flag-related material. The country's largest flag maker has said it will stop making the flag entirely. And guerrilla protestors around the country are starting to deface the statues honoring Confederate generals and politicians.
But the reach of the Confederacy—and the almost-insane tone-deafness of organizations and politicians who celebrate its history—goes well beyond the flag and hides in other insidious ways throughout the region. Here are just a few examples:
Kappa Sigma is a fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869 (note, after the South had lost the Civil War). Today, it boasts more than 18,000 collegiate members and many more alumni, including North Carolina Senator Richard Burr. It also boasts one—and only one—honorary member: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, racist, and traitor to America
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Worse than the Che shirt, he wears a ‘5 percent nation’ black supremacist medallion at times.
He’s an uber bigot and needs to be shunned. He’s also in tight with the Pre-Z who likewise needs to be expunged from the history books.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/jay-z-five-percent-nation_n_5107180.html
Jay Z Sparks Controversy With Five Percent Nation Bling
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medallion, sparking outrage and general confusion about whether reverse racism is a thing (spoiler: it definitely isn’t). The impractically-sized necklace is a symbol for the group, which was founded in 1963 by Clarence 13 X, when he broke from the Nation Of Islam.
Although there are no direct comments about white people in the tenets of Five Percent Nation, their public perception is certainly affiliated with not really loving white folks or, as Michael Muhammad Knight explained in an essay for Vice, “The first lesson I learned from the Five Percent was simple: F—k white people. Seriously. White people are devils.”
As NPR explained in a 2006 article on the group, the founding concept is that “Ten percent of the people of the world know the truth of existence, and those elites opt to keep 85 percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb.” Other essential ideas include the belief that “black people are the original people of the planet Earth” and “the fathers and mothers of civilization.”
This is not the first time Jay Z has worn the eight-pointed star with the number seven in the middle. The Christian Post reports that he wore the symbol while promoting “Magna Carta Holy Grail.” It has also been noted that the phrase “Peace God” in “Run This Town” is likely a nod to Five Percenters...
Yeah, we should ban the Virginia state flag.
It depicts a half-naked woman committing murder /s
I remember crossing the Border into N. Carolina back in the early seventies and going from Ft. Dix to Ft. Bragg.Right on the Border There was a impressive Bill Board size sign picturing a Klansman on a horse Welcoming visiters to N. Carolina “Home of The Ku Klux Klan”. Thought it was a bit over the top and all the black guys on the bus were a bit intimadated.
Che loved blacks. He called them ‘Monkeys without tails.’
They also used to tell the blacks they pulled them out of the trees and cut off their tails.
Banana Jay?
Ronald Reagan should be immortalized on Mt Rushmore. Watching the Libs gnash their teeth over that would be worth it.
Supporters of Confederate flag gather for ‘Pride Ride’ in Ocala
(I'm sure it matters not how just get it done.. knockout game, Zebra "Death Angels".. whatever it takes.)
Healthcare rationing. Joycelyn Elders said that those old people are just gonna die anyway, no sense in prolonging their existence when then young workers are the ones who are going to be paying her socialist insecurity check. That’s a paraphrase of Clinton Surgeon General but it gets the gist of it. I suspect that’s what got her really tossed, not the talk of teaching kids how to masturbate. Obama’s safe school czar said far worse.
This whole thing is insane.
One thing for sure. I'm through shopping as Amazon. I'm very uncomfortable with Amazon forbidding the sale of the Confederate flag because of their subjective and obviously unresearched knee-jerk reaction. I can no longer trust them as a source for what I read, watch, and listen to.
The Civil War never happened. It was just a series of white riots and KKK marches throughout the Southern states. :-)
Which “state’s rights” specifically?
The Civil War was about Washington D.C. trying to micro-manage state governments. If slavery had anything at all to do with the Civil War, it was a by-product of it, but certainly not the cause of it.
What's that supposed to mean, we must coexist with you, but you don't have to coexist with us?
Coexist with this:
Aside from vomit, I smell opportunity in the air. Find a new supplier or make the flag in your basement if you have to. They will come. On occasion, even liberal pussies need a Confederate flag to burn and release their pent-up hatred for the Confederacy and it's dead slavemasters. The demand is there, so go for it.
Make it fireproof and indestructible if you can. Label it with a disclaimer that no slave labor was used during it's manufacture. Be sure to get EPA approval etc. (just kidding). Sell them at flea markets and on street corners (do not try this in the ghetto). If the business takes off, sell distributorships and licenses to your friends. After you make your first million, take the money and run before you are charged with a felony of some kind and your wealth redistributed. Otherwise write a book or "bleed the beast" until another opportunity arises.
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It is a sad day in America.
Reply33 on this thread answers your question
Birds of a feather, flock--and come home to roost--together.
We used to call those people "vandals." As in "criminals."
I can see a day in the very near future when "guerrilla protestors" will start defacing rainbow flags, memorials to socialists like Malcolm X and Franklin Roosevelt, and anything else they don't agree with.
What's good for the goose ...
Sorry, but there's not a whisper of truth to that remark. The south dominated Washington DC for most of our history prior to the Civil War. Half of our presidents came from southern states (9 if you include the feckless buchanan).
Four states rebelled against the union even before Lincoln assumed office. There was nothing that had changed in the arrangement since the ratification of the US Constitution.
Nothing except the public sentiment regarding slavery. Most of the civilized world had done an about-face and ended slavery in their own nations. Lincoln stated that as president he lacked the authority to make any change regarding slavery in America and would have to leave that to those who did - congress.
The pro-slavery hotheads agitated squarely on the fears of abolishment of slavery and preemptively rebelled rather than face what they saw as an inevitability.
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