A couple of notes of interest:
You do know that the South lost the War of Northern Aggression, right?
You do know that the Georgia legislature adopted the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag as a snub to the federal government's mandates to integrate things in the South and treat blacks as equal human beings, right?
How do you think blacks feel about that? While I agree they should have more important things to worry about (like the anti-achievement mentality of the youth and the HIGH percentage of fatherless families) the same can be said for the pro-Confederate battle emblem crowd.
Don't you think there are more important things to worry about such as the 6% state income tax, a state budget that has more than doubled in a decade, the horrible traffic problems in Atlanta and the lack of a decent public transportation system because MARTA stinks?!?!
Right, but what relevance that bears to a politically correct left wing attempt to censor confederate historical items, I do not know.
You do know that the Georgia legislature adopted the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag as a snub to the federal government's mandates to integrate things in the South and treat blacks as equal human beings, right?
Wrong, and in fact that assertion has actually been the issue of much scholarship. While what you said is arguably true of the South Carolina statehouse flag that Fritz Hollings put up there, no evidence exists that the same occurred with the Georgia flag change. I believe it was even the ACJ that researched the issue and went back into the old records of the legislature when they changed the flag. They found virtually nothing related to resisting desegregation etc. Instead, it was put forth to commemorate the centenial of the war itself.
How do you think blacks feel about that?
Any sane ones should have no more problems with it than the United States flag. That was apparently the case in many regions of Mississippi as several majority-black counties voted in favor of keeping the confederate image in their flag last year. As for those few in the Jesse Jackson crowd of race hustlers out there who believe they have a "right" to offend the rest of us with racially motivated propaganda in order that they themselves may escape a profession of the very same over a piece of cloth, I could care less how they feel.
While I agree they should have more important things to worry about (like the anti-achievement mentality of the youth and the HIGH percentage of fatherless families) the same can be said for the pro-Confederate battle emblem crowd.
In some ways I suppose it could if indeed the flag were the only issue. It is not though. It is simply the latest target in an ongoing left wing assault on American culture, history, and anything that does not fit into their goal of remodelling this country as politically correct socialist diversitopia of big government.
No, the south lost the Civil War, the War between the States, the War of the Southern Rebellion, or Jeff Davis' War. There was no War of Northern Agression.
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