And so, you, maro, are the final arbiter in regards to not only what the true symbolism of this or that will be but also “what the majority of the people think”?
The U.S. military has honored former foes by naming warships and U.S. Army bases after them for a century and a half. However, in your prior post, you decreed that this is not acceptable because it ran contrary to your own personal opinion.
I provided you a link documenting that the Orleans Parish, La. school board stripped George Washington’s name from a public school because the school board considered him a symbol of slavery. To quote from the article, “Why should African-American children learn about freedom in a school that honors a man who denied the most basic of liberties to their ancestors? “ You may deny it if you wish but that Orleans Parish, La. school board did consider George Washington to be a symbol of slavery and did strip his name from a public school because of it, renaming the school Dr. Charles Richard Drew Elementary.
One can and should understand slavery and other human behaviors in historical and cultural context. But one should also have moral opinions in the here and now. And in the here and now, I say to you that slavery is and was evil. I thought you (like the vast majority of Americans) would of course agree with that simple proposition. I am not so sure now.
And here we have the classic Liberal race-baiting. “Agree with my point of view in the argument about the Confederate battle flag or you be will be labeled as someone who does not believe that slavery was evil”.
Not too long ago, when that silly TV show, “The Dukes of Hazzard” was on the air, America watched a show that featured a car named “General Lee” with a Confederate battle flag painted on the roof. Nobody, let alone “a majority”, equated that car with racism any more than they equated the little Confederate battle flags they sell at the Gettysburg souvenier shops with racism.
It has only been since relatively recently that a very vocal group of race-baiters in the NAACP has embarked on a campaign to equate the display of the Confederate battle flag as proof of racism.
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Quite a lot of symbolism there, maro.
If you do not agree with the NAACP’s support of the Democrat Party, you are a cross burning, church bombing racist.
If you do not agree with the NAACP’s interpretation of the One True Meaning of the symbolism of the Confederate battle flag, you are a racist. You, maro, then add that it also means that you do not believe that slavery was evil.
Maybe you can get someone else to cave in to your NAACP race-baiting, maro. However, you won’t have any success with me.
as for our battleflag, maro is in 3 words: WRONG,WRONG, WRONG! the battleflag of dixie means JUST one thing to the VAST MAJORITY of southrons = FREEDOM from OPPRESSION/ancester worship. nothing more/nothing less!
all the combined LIES of all the self-righteous damnyankee & scalawags in the universe can NOT change that!
FRee dixie,sw