Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.
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LOL Good one!
This goes in a direction I never thought till now it could go!!!
Yer crackin’ me up suh!
Reminds me I think I should ask my doctor about viagra, or levitra or some other proprietismic producing drug...
I still wonder how you can actually keep a straight face when someone comes into an ER stating they’ve had an erection for more the 4 hours...And not stand up and applaud!!!
Post of the day award to you!!!
Bless you!
A cut and run argument if I ever saw one...
Have a good day FRiend!
Thats why Tennessee is known as the Volunteer State.
No, call it the General Sherman!
He was an Ohio boy!
Touche’ and the Confederate flag has nothing to do with advocating slavery.
I agree with you 100%
What an idiotic statement.
Civil war? Keep pushing the socialist agenda and we'll see about that.
Rejection of American principles? Those were lost a long time ago, thanks to socialist politicians and activist courts, few of which could be found in the South.
A return to slavery? Please - stop being a whiny little drama queen and stop insulting half of the nation.
As an Illinois native now living in Texas, it would take a pretty big economic opportunity to entice me to move back to a state on the fast track to becoming the next Massachusetts. Such American principles as the spirit of rugged individualism, the ethic of hard work, love of God and country, and respect for neighbors are being lost throughout the North and replaced by nanny-state, overwhelmingly government controlled societies.
The North lost American principles a long time ago. It's not too late for the South.
Now you've got me hungry!
Too funny! And congrats! You come from good people! I saw on another thread awhile back that Scots-Irish was a misnomer- there was no such thing! Shrug. That’s what I’ve always been told my people were. A good dose of Welsh and Cherokee as well.
Come on down. This one looks like it’s got legs.
You forgot the old southern staple, pinto beans and cornbread with a slice of raw onion and fried taters.
“... you could sew your own shirts, bedsheets, and other products.”
Of course, this is still true today but few people do so because it is much cheaper to buy manufactured finished goods. This was also true in the 1820’s, but this fact does not refute the argument that high tariffs on imported finished cotton goods reduced the demand for raw cotton harvested in the South. Moreover, the argument that the tariff was not important to Southerners (especially South Carolinians) is counter to the decades-long campaign they waged against it. The tariff of 1816 was 20%, not .5%.
YUm-Yummmm! What time?
You seem to think you have the authority to speak for the North. Your posts keep accusing us Northerners of "hating" the South.
You have no right to speak for me.
I live in Michigan where 82% of the population are Christians. We don't "hate Christianity".
Keep your North-hating comments to yourself. You are doing nothing but re-inforcing the stereotype of the typical southern "redneck".
The Civil War has been over for a very long time. Get over it.
So if the textile mills in the North which used 100% Southern cotton were forced out of business by cheeper imports from England and France who used maybe 90% Southern cotton, demand for Souther cotton would be higher?
That makes no sense at all which is likely why no one made that argument in 1860.
Funny thing how there isn't any Northern pride or any Northern flag.
If I mention segregation, slavery, lynching, Dixiecrats, or terrorist organizations like the KKK, southerners get all red-faced and their panties in a bunch and want to start the war all over again. Some of you say I need a history lesson. Well, until you can demonstrate to me what the heck "southern pride" is in real terms that don't involve eating BBQ, listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, or anybody remotely involving the movie Deliverance, my impression is that You People still have a major PR problem.
I meant northeastern liberals. Sorry I guess they don’t hate Christains, defend homosexual marriage, abortion, etc. My bad.
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