Posted on 07/10/2019 4:54:24 PM PDT by PBRCat
Yes, the Confederate flag offends us...
Maybe the flag is about Southern pride, good ol’ rebel spirit. But it is about the South’s historic defense of slavery, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, fascism, white supremacy, white nationalism and bigotry.
Gov. Pritzker said, “The Confederate flag is a symbol of not just slavery, but of treason against the United States.”
Why are we writing to criticize Pritzker for banning Confederate Railroad, a country band that uses the Confederate flag, from performing at a state fair?
Because government should pick its battles wisely and rarely when curbing free expression, even free expression paid for by the taxpayer.
And it was the Pritzker administration that booked Confederate Railroad in the first place.
It would have been entirely reasonable for state officials to decline to book the band because of the art on the band’s album cover, which includes a Confederate flag.
But for Pritzker to reach down now, after all the contracts have been signed, and cancel the booking for this one band strikes us as excessive government involvement in matters of free expression.
It is not strictly censorship. Nobody is saying Confederate Railroad can’t play wherever it can land a gig. But it feels to us like a poorly thought-out violation of the spirit of free speech, our nation’s most sacred principle, given that the band was hired before it was given the boot.
We would have preferred Confederate Railroad (was not booked). We also would have understood had the department chosen not to book Snoop Dogg to perform at the fair. Many are offended by Snoop Dogg’s latest album cover — the rapper standing over a corpse toe-tagged with President Donald Trump’s name.
Confederate Railroad was booked. A contract was signed.
Pritzker should have let the band play.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Deo Vindice
You sound like someone that has never read the secession proclamations. There is nothing just about slavery.
In other words, they agree with banning the band, but they have a problem with the ham-fisted way Pritzger handled it, which makes their side look bad.
Does the Rainbow flag fly....
Will anyone get in trouble for burning a Rainbow flag?
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
My GGGreat Grandfather died fighting for the Confederacy and was dirt poor with no ties to slavery. He wanted a free country not under the thumb of DC.
The shocking part of this story is that the Chicago Sun Times, a paid publicity arm of the Democrat Party went against their current God, Jelly Belly Pritzker. The Sun Times is down to less than 10,000 readers and is on life support from the Chicago Unions.
I feel your pain bray........same here. My folks never owned slaves, matter of fact they probably share cropped with the blacks.....and they suffered right along with the blacks during the depression. I’m proud of them and where I came from and it po’s me for these azzes to want to take that away!
bump
Breach of contract. Sue their eyes out.
Secession was not treason. All the states were under the assumption they could walk away from the deal if they were so inclined. They wanted out, they did one want to take over it wasn’t all right, but it certainly wasn’t treason.
‘The South should be proud of its rebellion against Fedzilla.’
okaaay....
‘Deo Vindice’
well, ol’ Deo didn’t do much vindicing, eh...?
‘All the states were under the assumption they could walk away from the deal if they were so inclined.’
unfortunately, they couldn’t just walk away from an unprovoked act of aggression against Federal property...though a contingent on this site thinks they had no alternative, nonsense of course...
False. Georgia goes on at length about the economic causes and Texas lists a variety of causes. Attached to South Carolina’s declaration of causes and sent out with it was Rhett’s address which went on at length about the economic causes. Violation of the Fugitive Slave Clause of the constitution by the Northern states was actually unconstitutional and gave the Southern states a basis for saying the Northern states had violated the compact between them.
You sound like someone who never heard of the Corwin Amendment nor read Lincoln’s inaugural address.
The aggression was of course Lincoln's sending of a heavily armed fleet into South Carolina's sovereign territory.
Maybe Nike can design some footwear around it.
At least we still have the Confederate Air Force!
Sorry, they changed their name, too.
They are now the Commemorative Air Force.
Can a state, or group decide if it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another?
Is it possible to disconnect/ cut the cord to the enormous US fed Gov?
I’m not asking you if you agree with someone’s reason but can they pick up and leave ?
Right now our country was founded based on the answer being yes but when anyone has tried, they have been beaten into submission, killed, fought against ...
I say the answer is yes based on multiple historical documents but no one has accomplished it peacefully or with force. Just plain sad. We are serfs not citizens now.
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