Georgia Flag Will Not Carry Rebel Battle Flag

CNN.com ^ | 04/25/03 | CNN

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Georgia flag will not carry Dixie cross Friday, April 25, 2003 Posted: 10:30 PM EDT (0230 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The Georgia Legislature voted Friday to change the state flag to a version that echoes the Confederate battle emblem, but without the familiar Dixie cross that had led black lawmakers to promise an economic boycott.

Lawmakers agreed to quash any possibility of a referendum on reviving the Confederate battle emblem, which black lawmakers called a symbol of oppression and which had been a part of the bill.

If the measure is approved by Gov. Sonny Perdue, Georgia voters next March will choose between the temporary flag and the current Georgia flag.

[stand watie]

Dr King DISPISED Jesse Jackson, as a poseur & money-hungry charlatan.

i KNEW both in the early-mid '60s. (in those days we REDmen/women were active in the NAACP, long before it bacame the naaLcp. what the money-hungry racebaiters, who are running things in the organization NOW, did to a fine old civil rights organization is a SHAME & a DISGRACE!)

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

the sacred flags of our CSA ancestors CANNOT be tainted or tarnished by ANYONE. the flag of the TRUE CAUSE of southron LIBERTY is above all that.

you really should head over to DU. they'll LIKE you over there.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

his name is H. K. Edgerton & he's a friend of mine. he and his brother are GREAT GUYS!

also you should check out the black men who've formed the BLACK CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION. they REALLY stir up the kluxers because they are BLACK, conservative & support the TRUE CAUSE publically, with their pretty gray uniforms & battleflags!

free dixie,sw

[Budge]

Welcome! - Dr King DISPISED Jesse Jackson, as a poseur & money-hungry charlatan.

Thank you sir! BTW, you are one of the very few people that uses the old southron spelling. I thank you for that.

Now on to Dr. King and the money-hungry charlatan, je$$e. I wasn't aware that Dr. King didn't like him, but somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of my failing memory, it seems I heard that years ago.

I do know I heard that je$$e jackass put his hand in Dr. King's blood then rubbed it on his clothes, to "prove" how close he was to Dr. King when he was shot. I don't know if that is true or not, but as far as I'm concerned, it is. I wouldn't put it past him.

Something else I have always wondered; did je$$e contact Ray and have Dr. King killed, for the very reason he is now "sitting on the throne," so to speak. As vile and evil as that "man" is, I wouldn't put it past him. But only je$$e and God know for sure...and je$$e would deny that for the rest of his miserable life.

My gosh, you actually met Dr. King, what an honor!

As far as the race-baiting pimp, well......

[Budge]

his name is H. K. Edgerton & he's a friend of mine. he and his brother are GREAT GUYS!

That's it! H.K. Edgerton! And you know him? You do get around.

Thank you for reminding me of his name. If you are still in contact with him, please convey the Hog Wild FReepers dissapointment in our failure to meet him!

I certainly will check out the BLACK CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION. Thank you again, sir!

[Fractional-American]

I want to start a thread about possibly organizing rallies to Take Back the Rebel Flag all over the country. We could use as our slogan, No Racists, Race-Baiters, Supremacists or Segregationists Allowed! Only problem is I dunno which forum in which to start the thread! As I said in that Perdue thread, most of the people I've known who use the flag aren't in the least racist, and I've eaten a lot of good country grub under that flag. A great barbecue joint in Bellflower CA is called Johnny Reb's, and the top chefs are all black. There's another one in San Mateo called Redneck Earl's. What people who support the use of the flag in non-racist contexts ought to do is rally in every state and make a point of excluding ANY bigots of ANY color. If a melting pot of people turn out to support redneckism and the PROPER use of the flag, it'll make the racists AND the race-baiters look like the deadbrains they are.

dog (It ain't mah fawlt Ah live in the dayum city, Los Angeles Caidos. Ah'm jes' a good ol' country brown-neck at heart.)

Notice the (I guess) "politically incorrect" Dixie and Joe-Ja shirts on mah bulldawg shirts page.

[cyborg]

I would be willing to do something in my small way. Good idea.

[stand watie]

jesse was NOT even at the motel at the time that Dr. King was shot;he arrived much later.

also, i knew BOTH Drs. King & Mrs King during a "self-help rural re-construction project" in AR in the summer of '66 & most of '67.

i was a college student (freshman/sophamore) at the time; he was a "man full-grown", so i can't claim to have been a friend, just an admirer.

he and Mrs. King (she is a GREAT cook, btw! her pinto beans & fatback AND her fried cornbread were WONDERFUL, after a day of swinging a pick and/or wielding a shovel!) were NICE & polite to the students! Dr King, Sr was too old to swing a pick, but was thought of by the students as our chaplain & mender of broken hearts.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

will do.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

well-said!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEP, it is.