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What Does It Mean "The South Shall Rise Again":
The Wichita (KS) Eagle ^ | 23 May 2007 | Mark McCormick

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
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To: Rebeleye
""It's a First Amendment issue. City government can't keep insensitive idiots off the streets any more than The Eagle can keep them out of its Opinion Line." "

Ha! while not accurate, i enjoyed the jab at the Eagle.
21 posted on 05/24/2007 6:20:46 AM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: SWEETSUNNYSOUTH
most if not all of the left is ashamed to be human....
22 posted on 05/24/2007 6:20:50 AM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: TonyRo76
I agree with you. But there are too many trendy-set Steve Spurriers out there that have no intellectual depth and only a comic book level of historical perspective.

Walter Williams is a bold defender of the Confederate Battle Flag and keeps one in his office.

23 posted on 05/24/2007 6:20:52 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Rebeleye
What Does It Mean "The South Shall Rise Again"

Depends whose saying it. :-)


24 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:11 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: KarlInOhio

I always pictured the General Grant as more of a GTO.


25 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Polybius

whose = who’s


26 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:55 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: mkjessup

Its the Nazification of my forefathers by the PC Police and I’m sick of it. Below is a Great book I would recomend if you or your ancestors were from the South. There is no reason we should be ashamed, and this book gives you plenty of reasons to be proud.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South: by Clint Johnson
http://south.politicallyincorrectguide.com/offers/offer.php?id=PGSTH001

What the PC police don’t want you to know—and what they got plain wrong—about the South

From the Founding Fathers to the frontiersmen who tamed the West to the country music, NASCAR, Bible-thumping heart of “Red State” America, the South is the quintessence of what’s original, unique, and most loved about American culture. Yet, thanks to the PC police, the heritage and culture of the South is under attack. The PC establishment is so intent on spreading the myth of the South as prejudiced and ignorant that it even wants to rewrite its history.

But author Clint Johnson rises up in fierce resistance to the second war against the South. He reveals that, far from being the backwater of the nation, the South has always been the center of American culture and history, and that the South is truly rising again. He provides you with the information you need to fight the battles being waged against Southern heritage and pride.

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again) is here to even the score by taking a stand for Dixie, and proving why the South, its traditional values, military service, good manners, and fierce independence will certainly rise again.


27 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:57 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: xcamel

“Wo was “workin’ on the railroad”

I thought “I’ve” been working on the railroad, all the livelong days.


28 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:58 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: TonyRo76

I wonder why this “person” Ney doesn’t spend more time fighting the slavery that is currently going on in Africa? Isn’t that more “offensive” than an abstract interpretation of a flag regarding slavery 160 yrs ago? Come on, man - get some perspective!


29 posted on 05/24/2007 6:21:59 AM PDT by The Worthless Miracle (I think Jamie Dupree is annoying.)
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To: Rebeleye

“Because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many MORONS, including Ney.

There, that fixed it.


30 posted on 05/24/2007 6:22:29 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Polybius

Only a small segment of the Southern population owned slaves. Most of those in Gray were poor backwoods boys who were fighting for honor. That’s why they hold on to their flags. To them it wasn’t about race.


31 posted on 05/24/2007 6:23:40 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Rebeleye

Slavery existed almost a hundred years under the Stars and Stripes, but I guess this ignorant writer doesn’t know that.


32 posted on 05/24/2007 6:23:46 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Rebeleye
Bleedin' Kansan < /Cockney Accent>

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

34 posted on 05/24/2007 6:26:33 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Rebeleye
people still think it is cool to fly this flag.

It upsets liberals to no end....so yes, it is cool to fly it. :)
35 posted on 05/24/2007 6:28:01 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: D-Chivas; stainlessbanner; stand watie; 4CJ
To this Yankee, it means that Democrat redneck white trash want to go back to the good old days of segregation, lynching, and enslavement of black people.

Awwww, bless your heart you didn't get past 4th grade history class either did you?

"I was appalled that this racist symbol was receiving de facto sanction by the city of Wichita," Ney wrote to me in an e-mail.

Well when Mr. Ney is finished his campaign of ignorance in Kansas, he's free to come to NC and take the 3rd National that flies in front of my house

CSA ping

36 posted on 05/24/2007 6:29:40 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: TonyRo76
an MSM brownshirt,

I like that expression!!
37 posted on 05/24/2007 6:29:52 AM PDT by true_blue_texican (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: mkjessup

If it’s ok to ban the Rebel Flag, which by the way was a battle flag, then why do we allow people to fly the Nazi flag? It’s just something else to divide the people. They need to get over it.


38 posted on 05/24/2007 6:30:46 AM PDT by RC2
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To: KarlInOhio
On the other hand, when I see a bunch of people waving the confederate battle flag I get the urge to buy a Dodge Charger, paint it dark blue with a 35 star Union flag on the top, and wire it's horn to play the Battle Hymm of the Republic. I'll name it the General Grant.

Actually, that's the way it should be.

Use the battle flags to honor the soldiers that did their duty as they saw it and leave the battle flags out of current politics.


39 posted on 05/24/2007 6:31:35 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: billbears
LOL
Makes you wonder if more libs should've played "capture the flag" as little kids. Maybe then they'd understand.
40 posted on 05/24/2007 6:31:51 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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