Posted on 07/19/2020 1:36:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
US President Donald Trump declined to say the Confederate flag was an offensive symbol in an interview broadcast on Sunday, saying it is a source of pride for people who love the South.
The Republican president was asked on Fox News Sunday if the flag, a symbol of US slavery and white supremacy for many Americans, was offensive.
“It depends on who you’re talking about, when you’re talking about,” Trump responded. “When people proudly had their Confederate flags they’re not talking about racism. They love their flag, it represents the South. They like the South … I say it’s freedom of many things, but it’s freedom of speech.”
Trump has in the past appeared sympathetic to the flag and symbols of the Confederacy of the 1861-65 Civil War.
In 2017, he criticised the removal of monuments to the Confederacy and said there were “very fine people on both sides” of a deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
Earlier this month, he criticised NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag from its events.
Breaking with several of his fellow Republicans in Congress, Trump has promised to veto the annual National Defense Authorisation Act over an amendment to remove the names of Confederate generals from military bases within a year.
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Those who pretend to be Conservative, yet show no respect for generations of American conservatives, paint an utterly ludicrous picture. It is not necessary to agree with others on all issues to respect those “others” as honorable compatriots. But it is contemptible bigotry to refuse to honor those whose families have contributed mightily to a common heritage—contemptible in the extreme—because those “others” dared to differ with the contemptible bigot’s demand that all censure those being targeted.
No they didn’t. States are sovereign. The union is voluntary.
I doubt it. Those who worshipped at the altar of all powerful central government went to war with the rebels of 1775.
So you keep telling us.
because its the truth.
So you keep telling us.
Just like you keep claiming treason.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." - Article III, Section 3, Clause 1.
What part of that is so hard for you to understand?
The Southern states did not levy war against them (the states). It was Lincoln who attacked them by sending a heavily armed flotilla to invade their territorial waters - not the other way around.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
Southern states did not levy war against them (the states)
The first cannon ball to bounce of the masonry of Fort Sumter constituted Levying war against the United States.
Davis would have fired on Sumter if Lincoln had sent a troop of girl scouts in open canoes filled with food to resupply Sumter. He was not going to allow the fort to be resupplied under any circumstance.
So you keep saying. History says otherwise.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
The inaccuracy of your claim to begin with.
An aggressor is one who invades the land of another - not one who fires to drive an invader away.
Davis still fired the first shot. He would have done so under any circumstance to prevent the resupply of Sumter.
LOL! You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. Lincoln invaded nothing; you cannot invade your own country. Lincoln did not initiate anything; it was the Southern states who started the war by trying to starve Sumter into surrender and firing on ships on two occasions before bombarding Sumter. The South did wage war in the form of armed rebellion for over four years afterwards. Look it up. It's in all the history books.
How do you invade your own land?
The feds still invaded South Carolina’s sovereign territory first.
Davis fired the first shot.
It wasn’t his own country. South Carolina had lawfully seceded. You’re not entitled to your own facts. LOL! Lincoln initiated it. He started the war deliberately. Look it up. His own letter to his naval commander afterwards confirms it.
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