Now The Symbol Of New Orleans (Fleur de Lis) Is Considered Racist

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The fleur de lis, a French symbol used by royal families dating back to the 13th century, and emblazoned on the New Orleans Saints helmet, is now being called a symbol of slavery, drawing comparisons to the recent uproar against the Confederate battle flag.

“As an African I find it painful, and I think people whose ancestors were enslaved here may feel it even harder than I do as an African,” said slave historian Dr. Ibrahima Seck to WWLTV.

He connects the usage of the fleur de lis, to “code noir,” or black code, which was adopted in Louisiana in 1724, and used to govern to state’s slave population.

Seck said a slave caught running away, “would be taken before a court and the sentence would be being branded on one shoulder and with the fleur de lis, and then they would crop their ears.” Keep reading

[SkyDancer]

With that reasoning the American flag is racist because it has white in it and no black.

[ClearCase_guy]

Ban sunshine. It’s racist.

[hosepipe]

What’s wrong with being racist?..

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The beads around Mardi Gras women celebrating is racist. I hereby volunteer to, uh, pull them off...

[DJ Frisat]

Keep it up lefties. Sooner or later, the backlash is gonna be enormous if you keep pushing this crap.

[Fiddlstix]

OH! Good Grief!

The Inmates Are Running The Asylum!

[DocRock]

Just making crap up, because they can and get away with it.

[plain talk]

I agree that any black person living today with a fleur de lis branded on their shoulder against their will should be highly pissed off at the Saint’s helmets.

[humblegunner]

Just making crap up, because they can and get away with it.

Exactly like bloggers.

[fhayek]

All we have to do is add a couple of black stars to the flag and all of this racist nonsense will go away.

[UCANSEE2]

The Boy Scouts will be next. It is their symbol as well.

[LucyT]

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-Frederick Douglass

[Rebelbase]

“Keep it up lefties. Sooner or later, the backlash is gonna be enormous if you keep pushing this crap.”

The reckoning to come is going to be very ugly.

[Mygirlsmom]

Walk down any street in New Orleans and ask 100 people if the Fleur di Lis is offensive.

99 of them will answer "Whut????"

[Teacher317]

I want a symbol destroyed because of my whining, TOO!!! Waaaahh!!

[Scrambler Bob]

Looks like gay marriage, with a middle man.

[windsorknot]

Why? Because Lis is pronounced “Lee”.

[Scrambler Bob]

Boy Scouts’ symbol?

I may reverse my thoughts about displaying BSA logo.

[rightistight]

When the inmates run the asylum, everything is racist