Confederate flag a national issue?

WND ^ | February 3, 2004 | Les Kinsolving

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the candidates weigh in

[RebelBanker]

If this were from anyone other than Les Kinsolving, I would not believe it!

[Kenton]

Candidate and Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich replied that because of the NAACP boycott of the entire state of South Carolina (due to one Confederate flag flying on the state capitol grounds at a Confederate war memorial) he was spending the nights outside South Carolina.

Seems like a good way to keep less than desirable people out of the state, to me. However, this did mean that the Masters Inn out on I-21 lost out on a body to fill a single... Not that Dennis has any money left to pay anyway.

[Texas Federalist]

The sad thing is that of the three candidates mentioned. Sharpton gave the most direct and reasonable answer (even though I disagree). And Clark's answer . . . WOW!!! What a moron.

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Similar to the Darlington statue, the Confederate Soldier's Memorial at Arlington includes a black soldier.

The Jewish sculptur Moses Jacob Ezekiel wanted to show the true composition of the southern army: It depicts an armed, uniformed black Confederate soldier marching in step with his white comrades and a white Confederate soldier handing his small child to a black woman for safe keeping as he goes off to war.

I believe you can see the scene on the right on this picture

[Between the Lines]

The Confederate flag flying on SC state property is only an issue so long as it benefits a candidate. Tomorrow it will be a forgotten cause for another four years.

[stainlessbanner]

close ups of the Arlington Confederate Soldiers Monument.

[Redbob]

"Would Democratic candidates Edwards, Lieberman and Sharpton all be in favor of tearing down this memorial to a brave Confederate soldier who was black?"

Of course they would - bad-mouthing the Confederacy is a part of the liberal Yankee mantra.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"And Clark's answer . . . WOW!!! What a moron."

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Not only did he refuse to acknowledge the fact that every state has its own flag, and that Mississippi's happens to include the Confederate battle flag in its canton, but he doesn't see the irony of saying that the Confederate flag "stands for slavery" but the U.S. flag doesn't, when it was the Stars and Stripes that was flown on every slave ship coming to America for over a century, and the Stars and Stripes was our national flag during the many decades in which a majority or a near majority of states permitted slavery.

[TomServo]

the candidates weigh in

The candidates weigh in puss out.

Fixed it for ya! ;-)

Why can't these morons recognize that it's up to the State?

[azhenfud]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

[Texas Federalist]

You raise an excellent point, but I think you are giving "Wes" too much credit by reading into his answer more than is there. Did he think he was being smooth in his complete evasion of a legitimate question? Did he think few would notice? He is as out of touch with how others view him as that Korean kid who sang "She Bangs" in the San Francisco tryouts for American Idol.

[azhenfud]

"Why can't these morons recognize that it's up to the State?"

Old Abe St. Lincoln fixed that in 1865

[Texas Federalist]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

Good info. Didn't know that. How about the fact that during the civil war there was still legal slavery in the Union? The emancipation proclamation also didn't apply to slaves living in the North. They were freed by the 13th Amendment, eight months after the conclusion of the war.

[norton]

"...The Confederate flag is part of history. It's not part we're proud of. The only place it would belong in my opinion would be in a museum case..."

Funny, I've never heard him complaining about the mexican flag and it's an obsolete part of "our" history as well.

Oops. I keep forgetting that THAT south is indeed rising again.

[TomServo]

Old Abe St. Lincoln fixed that in 1865

And to this day, nobody challenges it.

[4CJ]

It depicts an armed, uniformed black Confederate soldier marching in step with his white comrades and a white Confederate soldier handing his small child to a black woman for safe keeping as he goes off to war.

Kudos to Moses Jacob Ezekiel.

[stand watie]

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[DustyMoment]

Actually, I'm in favor of ALL the race baiters who want to abolish every vestige of the Confederacy. The sooner they succeed, the better we will be.

Before you start flaming me, let me finish. If we abolish every vestige of the Confederacy, we eliminate every and all evidence of slavery. If there was no Confederacy, there could never have been slavery, nor was there a Civil War. If NONE of things things occurred, there is no justification for reparations becuase slavery never existed in the US because there was never any Confederacy.

History, no matter how hard the revisionists try to change it, is immutable. Emotionalism invested in such things as slavery and reparations arguments are temporal and transient in time. The sooner we abolish the justification for the emotional argument, the sooner that history can begin to resurrect the truth about the Confederacy.