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Confederate-Symbol Backlash Grows
The Wall Street Journal ^
| July 9, 2015
| CAMERON MCWHIRTER and LINDSAY ELLIS
Posted on 07/09/2015 8:20:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Edited on 07/09/2015 8:50:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last month has provoked a nationwide backlash against Confederate symbols, prompting demands to remove monuments, rename schools, erase the names of Confederate leaders from public property
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: confederate; confederateflag
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To: MinorityRepublican
This will never end. The pious malcontents won’t ever stop.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:22:55 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:25:02 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Punish sanctuary cities now! No money.)
To: MinorityRepublican
The left is trying to erase history.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:26:00 PM PDT
by
Holly_P
To: FlingWingFlyer
I cannot wait until they charge furiously into a crowd of reb-flag wearing bikers.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:26:33 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(We're ALL Dixie, now.)
To: MinorityRepublican
With all the black people being murdered in Chicago, they must have confederate flags on every streetlight pole.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:27:07 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: MinorityRepublican
Asshat Democrats trying to divert attention from the fact one of their own killed a bunch of innocent Blacks attending services in their own church as well in so doing trying to erase their own history, which is what the Confederate flag is symbolic of.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:27:38 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:28:30 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Holly_P
They’re not trying. They’re SUCCEEDING.
Because WE are letting them.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:29:19 PM PDT
by
Lil Flower
(American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Be like Stalin! Just erase all the history you don’t like!
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:31:21 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
To: MinorityRepublican
So, it wasn’t till some mentally ill kid kills some people for everyone to realize we had a civil war in the mid 1800’s?
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:34:38 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: rockinqsranch
Asshat Democrats trying to divert attention from the fact one of their own killed a bunch of innocent Blacks attending services in their own church as well in so doing trying to erase their own history, which is what the Confederate flag is symbolic of.That is not why the left is doing it. The Confederate flag represents defiance of totalitarian central authority and Southern heritage. It is a nasty symbol to them and they want to get rid of it. Secession is the thing they fear the most.
They left could care less about slavery and Jim Crow. They would enslave everyone if they could.
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:35:13 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
When are we going to ban the Democrat Party? They have pro-Klan racism written all over them, their past, their voting record...
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:36:15 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
To: Mad Dawgg
To: MinorityRepublican
The propaganda campaign about that is cover for passing this gun control bill. Dylan Storm Roof, Joker Boy and the Newtown Martian are the poster boys.
Dems push Congress to expand background checks for gun saleshttp://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309953/posts
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:38:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: MinorityRepublican
In Connecticut, more than 1,300 people signed a petition calling on Yale University to rename Calhoun College, named for John C. Calhoun, a pre-Civil War politician and onetime U.S. vice president who backed slavery. Somebody refresh my memory on the street name where the AME church is. Could it be Calhoun?
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:39:17 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: MinorityRepublican
The mob-vengeance push to vanquish the Confederate flag in an attempt to punish all those imaginary racists who hold it dear as a symbol of noble southern culture in ages past will only drive resistance and resentment underground, guaranteeing decades of anger and racial tension, and future efforts to return the flag to its place of honor for many when circumstances permit....
To: MinorityRepublican
I think it’s time for another Civil War. Us against them. I am so sick of these people. Divide and conquer.
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:45:12 PM PDT
by
hecticskeptic
(In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
To: 4Liberty
Robert Byrd was in the KKK and was one of their most respected members (of the KKK and the DemocRat Party).
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posted on
07/09/2015 8:46:11 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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