Posted on 08/05/2015 8:55:12 AM PDT by euram
Saturday’s rally follows a July 18 rally in nearby Graham where about 1,500 people demonstrated outside the Alamance County Courthouse to support a statue that displays a Confederate soldier. Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County held that rally after another group announced it would ask county leaders to remove the monument because it represented slavery, The Burlington Times-News reported.
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God Bless them. And God Bless you, euram, for sending me back to work with a smile on my face.
What BigC said!
Dixie Ping
The use of the flag was resurrected by the segregationists as a symbol of defiance of the civil rights movement. It originally was the flag of a country founded on principles of slavery and white supremacy. Those are the objective facts. How does the flag itself now separate itself from that reality? That needs to be explained - I'm not seeing it, but I'm willing to listen. She probably also believes the revisionist history of what the Confederacy was "really" about that was penned by the former politicians after their crushing defeat in the war which is where this view on the flag also comes from.
Screw you
“The use of the flag was resurrected by the segregationists as a symbol of defiance of the civil rights movement. “
Well that’s always been the marxist Left’s favorite version of American history since it fits their constant theme of racism.
The Confederate flag was “resurrected” in 1961, on April 12, 1961 to be precise. That was the day that South Carolina raised it at their State House. That date marked the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Centennial celebration that the whole country participated in for the next four years.
The Civil Rights movement didn’t get rolling until King’s speech and march on Washington in June 1963, over two years later. But the Left never lets details get in the way of their race baiting.
It’s a old timer who i don’t recall
Trump basher too
Omits that everything everywhere used to be white supremacy
Now it’s white retreat and boy does the future look bright for China
Somehow I expect that the South bashers will among the first to kowtow to their new overlords.
That’s as false as false can be, of course. No person with even a cursory knowledge of historical facts could reach the conclusions you reached. The Civil Rights movement didn’t start until 1963...are you joking? Rosa Parks, the sit-ins, forced integration, etc. had all been going on well before that, and the Confederate Flags’ revival was not on April 12, 1961 - it was before that, clearly as a symbol of resistance to civil rights. Besides which, it was still a flag representing a regime founded primarily on the principles of white supremacy and slavery. Those are objective facts.
Yep, just the kind of intellectual response I would expect. Arguing with defenders of the confederacy are just like arguing with liberals - wailing and whining in the face of objective, indisputable facts so they respond with insults because no facts can refute or support their positions.
“That’s as false as false can be, of course. No person with even a cursory knowledge of historical facts could reach the conclusions you reached. “
No person would reach that conclusion except those of us who lived through those years and remember them, versus your public school ‘education’ about the 50s and 60s.
Civil rights protests were sporadic and isolated before King’s 1963 march on Washington, and even then it was a couple of years before Lyndon Johnson would sign the Civil Rights bill. The years following that were marked by hundreds of urban riots and turmoil, particularly throughout cities outside the South. You’d know that if you had any pesonal knowledge of the times, but naturally you don’t. You only “know” what you see in movies and what you imagine must have happened.
You’re nothing
Just a pretender
JR shoulda run your fake ass off years ago
Conservative my butt
Snob blue state turd
That hotbed of segregation and racism, Time Magazine, had this to say last June 22nd:
“On Monday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley became the latest person to urge the South Carolina legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s Capitol. In the wake of a shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead, national debate over the controversial symbol has been reinvigorated. Below is a brief guide to South Carolina’s recent history with the potent emblem.
“South Carolina has not always flown the flag. The state’s first modern hoisting of the standard came in 1961, as part of official commemorations of the centennial anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. As K. Michael Prince notes in his book about the relationship between the state and the flag, Rally ’round the Flag, Boys!, the celebrations kicked off in Charleston, where the fighting had begun 100 years earlier. The flag’s place at the Capitol was officially confirmed by the state legislature the following year....”
“The decision in South Carolina didn’t attract much attention at the time. Civil-rights activists were more concerned with securing voting rights and ending legal segregation than a flag, and the state legislature relied on a concurrent resolution, which is typically reserved for uncontroversial measures, to order the flag placed atop the statehouse. Because concurrent resolutions don’t require much debate, there’s little record of what arguments were used in favor of flying the flag.”
http://time.com/3930464/south-carolina-confederate-flag-1962/
Just to clarify...the Confederate battle flag was introduced as a political symbol in American politics as far back as 1948 when it was widely used by the short lived Dixiecrat party, which was organized specifically in opposition civil rights and ran a slate of candidates in the 1948 Presidential election with the hope of forcing the outcome into the House of Representatives.
Not sure there is a bigger form of civil rights "protest" than to start a political party based on segregation of the races and compete in a national election.
“the short lived Dixiecrat party”
Founded 1948
Dissolved 1948
That fits what I said about sporadic and isolated.
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