Posted on 06/14/2005 10:21:00 AM PDT by robowombat
The South needs to rise again. I'm sick and tired of our heritage being denied.
oh my
I'll fight right beside you! If you don't give in to these morons, they'll soon give up. Sensative my hind foot! Some people are just programmed to bitch about something that didn't directly affect them and that hundreds of thousands died for it. Is there ANY organization that fights these kinds of injustices? Please let me know and I'll support any way I can.
Which heritage, the one that thought holding human beings in slavery was a good idea? That heritage is best left in the ash heap of history. If the South had separated from the USA it would be a third world country right now.
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From this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419001/posts comes this:
"Permitting a group to fly their flag from the Bridge of Lions enables that group to say 'We exist and this is what we stand for,'" said Karen Doering, staff attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "By denying this application, these city administrators are denying my clients their constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and equal access under the law. That violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments."
Why would't the same apply to the Confederate flag
Using that logic, since the flag is banned, the school should have no more racial incidents.
I guess they also wouldn't have let them watch the "Rebel 300/400/500" race (one of the previous names for the "Carolina Dodge Dealers 400" or whatever they call it these days.)
In a perverse sort of way, flying a Rebel flag in Maryville is denying their heritage. Maryville's in east Tennessee, near Knoxville -- an area that was solidly pro-Union during the war.
I grew up in East Tennessee and remember that there are at least a couple of high schools that have the rebels as their mascot. In fact, one of the high schools was predominately black. I wonder what impact that will have when those schools come into Blount County and play sports at Maryville.
Me thinks that fans will be wanting to waive those rebel flags for their teams.
My recollection is that there was a lot of Southron fervor there, too.
Whole families were split over the issue.
After the war, the stars and bars became a symbol of defiance to centralized authority and was pretty much adopted, whether during the war a community was pro union or not.
Maryville is one of them. It's the freakin' Maryville Rebels, but Heaven forbid you have a Rebel flag at a Rebels game.
It is disgusting, but not surprising.
As a proud Southern man, I know that black men have earned their right to be called Americans, by the blood they have shed on the battlefield, defending America from its enemies. They do so still today. I honor those black men.
The way things are going (down hill fast), it's probably now the Martin Luther King High School "Freedom Riders", or the Malcolm X High School "Rabblerousers".
Speaking of "Rebels" as a team name - here's the one that got me.
Which side was Nevada on during the Civil War?
What is the team name of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas?
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