The answer is blowing in the wind (Confederate Flag)

The State ^ | Feb. 27, 2005 | JOSEPH PERSON

[aomagrat]

NCAA kowtows to NAACP

[dirtbiker]

Randolph said no protests were planned this week for the women’s tournament in Greenville, adding that the interest in women’s basketball was not strong enough to make such an effort worthwhile.

Translation: Not an event with enough public interest to bother with making an a$$ of oneself on national TV....

[WKB]

WHen is the NAACP going to change their name to the
National Association For the Advancement of African Ammericans
and call themselves "NAAAA" as in no to everything..

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I would think the NAACP has more worthwhile issues to confront rather than a symbol of Southern pride.

[Plant7Pugsley]

This is ridiculous on a number of levels. The first of which is the civil war was fought over states rights. I really don't think (my opinion here) most in the north gave a hoot about racism or slavery at that time. The north wanted to preserve the union, the south wanted to leave... it just so happened slavery was the dividing issue, it could have been taxes at some later date in history, it was pretty much bound to happen. Second point, which I feel is just as important. How can you deny the history of the South. The civil war happened! are we just trying to sweep it under the rug and hope everyone forgets?

[buffyt]

I agree. I have black ancestors and Cherokee ancestors, and German, French, Dutch, English, Irish, etc. And I see the Confed. flag as part of history. I am not offended by it at all.

[WKB]

Just so you will know Ga doesn't have a monopoly on flag problems.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I guess if I were black I would understand the offense over this flag but as a person who is a descendant of Confederate soldiers I look at it as a part of my family's history. I don't think the Confederate flag is holding any blacks back it's their leaders who continue to oppress them.

[WKB]

I don't think the Confederate flag is holding any blacks back it's their leaders who continue to oppress them.



May I second that ?

[mtbopfuyn]

LOL!

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Yes you may.

[Noachian]

“I’m not going to back down,” Randolph said. “You don’t back down off of justice and matters of what is right.”

Apparently the NAACP doesn't want to practice what it preaches.

To tell Southerners that they have to conform to the prejudices, and group-think, of a Northern liberal organization, and deny their own history is both "right" and "just".

Why is it that we never hear anything said about the anti-American black, green, and red flag that flies in black neighborhoods all over the country?

[WKB]

I am getting a complex. People are always laughing at me. :>)
How are you doing?

[KateatRFM]

I hope that South Carolina and Mississippi will stand firm and keep on chanting "The Sixties Are Over" when they get the chance. The days of giving Blacks every lollipop they want have ended. Like the Unions they have overplayed their hand and the world is tired of them.

[antisocial]

I think we should declare the NAALCP a terrorist organization.

Dixie Bump

Maybe South Carolina should start an interscholastic NASCAR
league, it would probably bring in more money than basketball and football combined.

[Gwaihir]

Next on the list: confederate memorials throughout the South. Richmond and a few other cities have already started.

[Recall]

White Southerners sure have taken there lumps from the NAACP. Please note I didn't say "blacks" because they don't represent all blacks.


I would think if they see the flag as a symbol of their people being slaves than they should also see Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers who owned slaves as symbols. They aren't out there wanting to tear up the declaration of Independence or blow up Mt Rushmore. Ten of our first 18 president owned slave:
George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; James K. Polk; Zachary Taylor; Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant.

I haven't heard a peep about tearing down monuments to them or symbols of their legacy. We still use the money with their pictures on it. They aren't balled up in the fetal position about the money..hell, they want more of it.

They see Abraham Lincoln as the one who freed the slaves but
the Emancipation Proclamation actually frees slaves only in states and regions under rebellion - it did not free slaves in any of the slaveholding states and regions that remained in the Union. In other words, Lincoln "freed" slaves everywhere he had no authority and withheld freedom everywhere he did. Earlier, in Lincoln's first Inaugural address in March of 1861, he promised slaveholders that he would support a Constitutional amendment forever protecting slavery in the states where it then existed - if only those states would remain in the Union.

So,I'm not getting all choked up about the NAACP seeing the Confederate flag as a symbol of slavery. They are only beating this drum in the South because they have so little power anywhere else.

[LuigiBasco]

As a displaced Yankee I will display my MS state flag 24/7 and am proud to show my respect to those who gave their lives for what they relieved in. The Confederate cause
Luigi

[mtbopfuyn]

Hey, guy! I'm fine. How's things out your way? Uncle Ernest still where he belongs?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

It's a beautiful flag and there's nothing wrong in displaying it.