Just more unsupportable extreme hyperbole from your end. It is funny, with all your ranting about "outside agitators," you could almost be mistaken for a Southern official circa 1961. But it seems that none of the most outspoken people on the flag issue are Yankees - why is that? They're just smart enough to find front people for their views?
the most outspoken ranters about the flag are scalawags & damnyankees.
BTW, being a northern-born no more makes you a damnyankee than it makes you a methodist.
damnyankees & scalawags are MADE, not born. scratch either one and you find a BIGOT, who hates traditional concepts/ideals/objects.that is their nature, just as it is the nature of a scorpion to sting. both scalawags & damnbyankees should leave the southland & head north forever.
FRee dixie,sw
I have no idea how old you are, but I'll hazard a guess of between 25 and 35. If you wish to tell your age, it may help in what I'm about to say.
First off, I'm 68, born and raised in the great state of Texas. I moved to Arkansas in 1984 to be closer to my sister who was suffering from cancer. We grew up when segregation was the norm in the south. We were raised by a wonderful woman who, at the time was called a "colored lady." She, along with our parents, taught us what "respect" meant. We played almost daily with Nora's children, Josey and Betty, who were a couple years older than I. I'll never forget the one and only time, after hearing other kids or adults, whichever, use the term "nigger" that I spoke the word. First, my mother washed my mouth out with soap, told our wonderful Nora what I had said and to discipline me however she thought best. Nora marched me into one of the upstairs bathrooms and, you guessed it, another soap mouth washing! Dad, when he heard the news, turned me over his knee and spanked me.
As I grew older I began to realize that some people treated Nora differently than my sister and I, most notablly when she would take us to the movies where we had to sit in the balcony. Then the obglitory soda at the nearby durgstore. Nora was allowed to bring us into the drugstore but not allowed to stay and have a drink with us. Even though the "soda jerk" was a "colored person." I had several more years of growing up to fully comprehend the "why." When I did finally understand the "why," I thought it totally unfair, and not just to Nora, but all "colored people," and vowed to someday do what I could to put an end to segregation.
Back to my point. Even though my sister and I were now in school, Nora would help us with many subjects, including but not limited to, history. I still have the enormous Webster's dictionary she often used as a teaching aid. Nora taught us how to respect "Old Glory," the Texas state flag, and yes, even the Stars And Bars. She taught us a lot about the Civil War, and from a "colored person's" point of view. Never, never was she 'offended' by the Stars And Bars (that many erroneously claim was a 'battle flag,' it wasn't, but the flag of the Confederate States). Nora was born in the south. She was just as proud of the Stars And Bars as she was of the Flag of the United States.
Since my sister's death four years ago, I have lost touch with Josey and Betty, much to my regret. Nora had a stroke in 1958, and was no longer able to work. But we stayed in close contact until her death in 1975. By then segregation had been abolished roughly ten years in our part of Texas. Many, many times we discussed current events in her modest home. I can tell you this in all honestly. Nora was appaled at the actions of some "black folks" even then. She hated the disrespect her "brothers" blatently showed any white person. She detested the poor upbringing so many of the young blacks showed to anyone, even their elders.
I thank God that this lady didn't live to see the false "offense" so many of today's black "leaders" display at the drop of a hat.
Now, if you are old enough to remember, did the flag ever offend you, at least before the race-baiters told you it did?
I'd wager it never even crossed your mind.
As a footnote, I have begun to regret my stand to abolish segregation.
Why, you ask?
Because of people like Jesse Jackson and his ilk constantly stiring up hatred against the white people. He is no more following the teaching and desires of Martin Luther King, Jr., who simply wanted to end segregation and give blacks the same opprotunity as whites. MLK is probably spinning in his grave at the actions, lies, blackmail, and hatred that Jackson is teaching in his name.