Confederate Flag still an issue?

eastcarolinian ^ | October 14, 2004 | Peter Kalajian

[CurlyBill]

Here's the flag of the 1st Maryland Cavalry, CSA under which my 2nd great uncle fought. I'm still looking for a better GIF image of it.

[Conservative Firster]

The author is a bigot for being against muliculturism.

[sarcasm]

[Siobhan]

An Armenian should know better than to write a piece of trash like this that is only worthy of an Ottoman hack.

[stainlessbanner]

I think Do be meant that for the author of the article.
Now, post 38 is an entirely different matter!

[bluecollarman]

To forget the likes of Lee and Jackson would be the saddest, and most grievous of actions. Lee was the perfect example of why we remember, why we must continue to remember regardless of the outcome. Our rich heritage is also the reason Southerners are patriots still. In an increasingly liberal, narcissistic USA, Southern men defend, love and answer her call to duty in record numbers.

The call to Duty. In Lee's case Virginia, where his allegiance, loyalty and love was firmly established. Right or wrong, how can you fault the men who fought with such clear and well thought out convictions?

"Duty...is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things... You can not do more-you should never wish to do less."

"I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children." ...R.E. Lee

That my friends is "Heritage".

To reduce that great struggle as a war only about slavery, cheapens and demeans many great men. That is the thing that is truly hateful. It is my Duty...to never forget what that word "Duty" really means, or how best to honor it.

[Tax-chick]

You'd think so ... maybe he's been cut off from his heritage.

[Tax-chick]

I think maybe the poster "Do Be" was responding to the original article, rather than to Stainlessbanner.

[PistolPaknMama]

Is that one of Dr. Spock's offsprings?

[PistolPaknMama]

All my life, the Confederate flag was something of a joke to me. M history classes in high school and earlier had taught me that the Confederate defeat during the Civil War was a good thing,

Mr. Kajolian: Let me guess. 1) you ain't from around here, are you? 2) you went to government school?

[PistolPaknMama]

I challenge anyone to show me an African-American person with a Confederate Flag bumper sticker or "The South will rise again"

Hey I recently had lunch with that guy! He doesn't like his mexican food too hot, right HK? :-)

[PistolPaknMama]

There are rainbows on the bumpers of cars all across the country, and they represent a perversion of God's creation of human sexuality. See the analogy?

No.

[wardaddy]

I think this self righteous cretin is Armenian myself.

Screw Him....he can go live somewhere he doesn't have to deal with Southern Heritage....I'm tired of the tyranny of the minority.

I too have the Bonnie Blue.,...for my home flag and the front of my ever aging LR.

I shall look for you Martin....I have seen a few....one was on a Beemer on Hobbes the other day.

I'm partial to the BB since it has a strong connection to my homestate of Mississippi

[wardaddy]

I don't like being compared to the Nation of Islam or Al Quaeda.

And btw....we are already Balkanized....thanks to the cult of PC victim hood and the celebration of the minority and the denigration of the culture that predominately founded this nation.


This Confederate Battle Flag is a very new issue used by the NAACP and Morris Dees types to lasso their slaves for the left's plantation and keep them riled up.

The favored flag of the now completely insignificant Klan and other nutcase groups has always been Old Glory.

They are coming for that soon enough.

I grant my cultural foes no quarter or equivocation or relativism.

That is what separates most of us here from the modruts...thankfully.

Welcome to FR...hope you enjoy it.

[Mustng959]

~ "Duty...is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things... You can not do more-you should never wish to do less."

"I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children." ...R.E. Lee

That my friends is "Heritage".

To reduce that great struggle as a war only about slavery, cheapens and demeans many great men. That is the thing that is truly hateful. It is my Duty...to never forget what that word "Duty" really means, or how best to honor it. ~

Very well said!
I was also taught that the Civil War was based on "States Rights". Heritage is very much a part of the reason that some still embrace the flag that their ancestors fought to defend. I have no use for the KKK, Nazi's, or other "hate" groups.
I had an uncle killed on December 7, 1941 aboard the USS Arizona. Do I hate the Japanese? No, in fact I have Japanese children on my sports teams who are terrific kids as well as having respectful parents. The ethnic origins of the individual do not define their outlook and beliefs in life.

[wardaddy]

Very large BTTT and well said.

[nolu chan]

[nolu chan]

With Boston I think you have the right general idea, i.e. New England, but I believe the target location is Maine.

[nolu chan]

[Peter Kalajian] It may stand for some perceived difference between the North and South, which apparently has persisted to this day

Perhaps it is not just a rumor that the South is more conservative than the North.

Allow me to demonstrate what passes as leaders and heroes to New Englanders such as Peter Kalajian.

The perception of a difference remains fairly strong.

Gay marriage is a constitutional right only in New England.

Incarcerated felons retain the right to vote only in New England.

[nolu chan]

[Peter Kalajian] Are people who fly the Confederate flag, be it in bumper sticker form or on the end of a flagpole, trying to align themselves with such openly evil and backward-thinking organizations?

Perhaps they are not trying to align with any "backward-thinking" morons, but rather to celebrate past heritage. Perhaps some just want to join in defense against the "forward-thinking" progressive liberal morons of Mr. Kalajian's New England where Adam and Steve have the a constitutional right to get married, the parish priest may molest children under the "one free grope" rule, and convicted felons enjoy the right to vote, and Ted Kennedy is the more conservative Senator of his state.

[nolu chan]

[Peter Kalajian] I challenge anyone to show me an African-American person with a Confederate Flag bumper sticker

Harper's Weekly, Vol 7, No. 315, Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, January 10, 1863
Rebel Negro Pickets as seen through a Field-Glass