A real man's man, and a great football player to boot!
Posted on 07/11/2015 6:01:52 AM PDT by AU72
John Hannah, the great Patriots’ Hall of Famer, viewed with dismay the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina capitol.
“It’s not going to kill me one way or the other,” he said from his 280-acre farm in Alabama. “But does it bother me? Yes, it does. It’s part of our history and it’s been given a bad rap because of white supremacists who’ve flown it as their symbol. That’s not what it was about.”
Hannah, who’s as Southern as a bowl of grits, bitterly resents the characterization of that flag as a banner for rednecked good ol’ boys, an image that continues to dog the sons of Dixie and is at the heart of the Confederate flag issue.
“You know,” he pointed out, “there were very few Southerners who were plantation owners.”
But try telling that to a voracious mob hungering for a manufactured moral victory. Yesterday’s pageantry was predictably over the top.
The crowd roared “hey, hey, hey, goodbye,” a raucous chant often employed by winners to taunt the losers at sporting events, while CNN’s Don Lemon reached for a towel to ostensibly dry his sobbing eyes, declaring “it (flag) doesn’t celebrate any history except negative history.”
Really? Anyone disagreeing with Don must be a bigot?
“I understand how he might feel that way,” Hannah said. “The trouble is, all he knows is what he’s been taught, meaning there’s a lot he doesn’t know. There should have been no segregation. Absolutely not. There should have been no slavery. Absolutely not. But politicians have taken those just arguments to create an unjust cause.
“For most Southerners that flag was a symbol against federalism, against the federal government dictating what a state can do. That’s part of what that flag means to a lot of people who don’t have a racist bone in their bodies. Country folks are good people who tend to go with the flow of how things ought to be. But who speaks for them? Nobody.
“Look at the federal government’s intrusion into our lives today, and you know what? Maybe we weren’t so wrong.”
If the PC crowd could have heard Hannah pour out his heart in eulogizing his friend and teammate, Leon Gray, at Roxbury’s Charles Street AME Church, it might have realized the unfairness of blanket indictments, such as ascribing racist sympathies to all sons of the Old South.
“There are a lot of good people down here who love that flag and love their neighbors,” Hannah said. “But no one wants to listen to them.”
It goes to show how malleable a symbol can be.
PERSONALLY, I think we can make a distinction between how black-hating Dixiecrats meant by the Stars and Bars (and that is how it got over state capitals) and what more modern generations have meant by it. And therefore be opposed to one but not the other.
But again this requires a grasp of actual HISTORY. Not of revised mush.
WHY THE REGIME PICKED ON THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG
AND NOT ROOF’S MANIFESTO
Because it was under threat of questioning and possible impeachment proceedings by its so called political opposition the regime needed to defer or stop any movement toward this. It was necessary to use a political device usually atrributed to Saul Alinsky but used by the nazi and commie’s like Stalin with the “Kulacks” through racial division.
Through the use of “The Bully Pulpit” It created persons engaged in felonious assults on authority who were black youths into; “Victims of an evil society” (thus approving their actions) out of whole cloth.
The regime began with the Zimmerman case which resulted in a series of assults by black youths on completely innocent whites,”hispanics”, and asians who were either targeted or wandered near or through black gang infested areas. The perpetators excuse;
The false and inflamatory reported “cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin because he was black”
It led to a score or more deaths and serious injuries which were treated as local news ignored and forgotten. And it was met with silence while this was happening. Neither the locqatious POTUS or his political opposition uttered as much as a “Now!,Now! or a “tsk!,tsk!”.
Those killings were referenced by the Charleston Church massacre perpetrator in his crazed manifesto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3302529/posts
Naturally when it was discovered that mention of those score of murders were used in this nut cases’s “manifesto” the reaction was....“Well we can’t let that out.
Oh ! His face book has him holding a Confederate battle flag, (Which to many is simply an ensign of protest and rebellion), that must be his excuse “The Confederates made him do this horrible act ! Let’s get them !” Well they’re doing a good job of perverting what that battle flag represented at the same time ignoring the very mentioning of the regimes complicity in engendering those previous racial incidents.
If ø is averse to the Confederate Battle Flag there must be something in it even more akin to defiance, and something by division that comports well with that enemy islamist’s means to bring US down.
The Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia has become the new symbol of defiance to the Uniparty and federal government of the US.
The one I had in college is stashed somewhere in the attic, but I’ll be looking for it this week.
A real man's man, and a great football player to boot!
This whole Confederate flag issue is just another red herring used by the Left to further their liberal agendas. It is nothing more than a cheap shot at the South by using their cultural Marxist political correctness as a club to bully everybody into submission. If anyone dared pay attention to this Charleston church murderer's social media postings, he has pictures of himself standing on an American flag and holding a burning American flag, as well as the Confederate flag. The Left has zeroed in on the Confederate flag as the reason he committed the murders, just like good little Alinskyites. "Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the Left has done with the Confederate flag. And, of course, they can't help themselves once they have started a feeding frenzy over the flag and demonizing the South. Now they are going after any evidence of the South in wanting to destroy Confederate monuments, any monument of Founding Fathers who owned slaves, stripping any state flag with the Confederacy on it, renaming places, etc. This is disgusting. The Confederate flag is no more a symbol of racism than apple pie is of patriotism.
Even more disgusting to me is how all of these institutions, organizations and corporations have scrambled to be the first ones on this liberal "destroy the Confederate flag and the South" bandwagon. They have fallen all over themselves caving-in and bucking-under to the PC demands of the Leftists. Even NASCAR? How stupid are those people? The first race at Daytona after they informally banned the Confederate flag, found the infield and stands ablaze with fans displaying and waving their Confederate flags in defiance of the ban. One thing you don't do, is to alienate your fan by by telling them they can't have their Confederate flags. The boys that run NASCAR don't know the south if they think their ban will work.
The mental patients have take over and are running the insane asylum. Push back at the Left and their insane bullying tactics. Much like Trump is doing with illegal immigration right now. The more the left comes unglued about his Mexican remarks, the more popular the public finds him.
He was one of the best offensive lineman ever to play the game. An All-American in every sense of the term.
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