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Clemson’s role as baseball host unfurls flag flap (More Confederate Flag)
Charlotte Observer ^
| July, 23, 2006
| Joseph Person
Posted on 07/25/2006 10:19:23 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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The NCAA is a private organization. I can't blame them. Such a divisive symbol as the reb flag has its place only on private property. It has a similar effect to one large group of citizens as a statue of General Sherman holding a torch located on state grounds would have to another large group of SC citizens.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
OK. who has the popcorn concession for this one?
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:22:04 AM PDT
by
Hazcat
To: stainlessbanner
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:24:06 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: Hazcat
Clemson used to have a baseball coach named Bill Kaiser, and when I was at UNC and every time he went to yell the umpire the UNC students would yell out "Der Kaiser" and stand and give the Nazi salute.
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:24:40 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Maybe they could just replace it with the rainbow flag. That would make Jesse, the gays and the enviros happy. They are the only ones who count anyway. /sarc/
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:25:22 AM PDT
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Good 'ol Gephardt used the Confederate flag to rebel rouse in the state of MO during his bid for the Presidency. Until that time, no one had uttered one word until they were "told" they should hate this flag!
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07/25/2006 10:25:54 AM PDT
by
elephant
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Interesting how 'free-speech' sure has it control freaks.
To: Colonel Kangaroo; stainlessbanner
South Carolina ran the Confederate Naval Jack (what everybody calls the "Confederate flag," the rectangular St. Andrews Cross on the red field) up on the Statehouse in 1962. (By the way, y'know who signed the bill? DEMOCRAT Governor Ernest "Fritz" Hollings.)
In 1999, that flag was removed from the top of the South Carolina Statehouse. In its place, a battle standard--not the national flag of the Confederacy, a BATTLE FLAG a mere three and a half feet square--flies on a pole BEHIND A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MONUMENT on the Statehouse grounds. If you didn't know where to look for it, you'd probably miss it. I know this because I worked five blocks from it in downtown Columbia for almost six years.
This is a bunch of crap from the NAACP and the liberal university administrators. I'm glad South Carolina isn't knuckling under to these race pimps.
}:-)4
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:28:48 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
To: RebelBanker
do they want to erase all of america's past history, I for one become offended when the BLACK NATIONAL ATHEMN is sung; it will never stop and is another ploy for victimhood status
To: Colonel Kangaroo
What do you think of the civil rights memorial that also sits on the grounds of the statehouse, near the confederate soldiers memorial over which the battle flag flies? The civil rights memorial contains the likenesses of civil rights leaders, including Greenville native, Jesse Jackson.
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07/25/2006 10:30:24 AM PDT
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SC Swamp Fox
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To: Hazcat
It was Bill Wilhelm not Kaiser.
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07/25/2006 10:31:07 AM PDT
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Perdogg
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07/25/2006 10:33:20 AM PDT
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SC Swamp Fox
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To: dubyawhoiluv
do they want to erase all of america's past history, I for one become offended when the BLACK NATIONAL ATHEMN is sung; it will never stop and is another ploy for victimhood status
We already see the beginnings of a movement to ban the American flag since many hispanic immigrants/illegals supposedly find it offensive. It was predicted by more than a few on this very forum that if you roll over on the confederate flag they will eventually come for Old Glory and that is what is happening.
To: Perdogg
"It was Bill Wilhelm not Kaiser."
You want Perdogg, I just have the popcorn concession :)
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07/25/2006 10:33:46 AM PDT
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Hazcat
To: Moose4
"This is a bunch of crap from the NAACP and the liberal university administrators. I'm glad South Carolina isn't knuckling under to these race pimps."
There's quite a few of those "race pimps" and NAACP lovers right here on this board too.
You'll know them by the trash they spout.
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:34:19 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: dubyawhoiluv
do they want to erase all of america's past history? Sherman is part of South Carolina and America's history too, but his place isn't on the state grounds of SC either.
I for one become offended when the BLACK NATIONAL ATHEMN is sung; it will never stop and is another ploy for victimhood status
The choice is not between the Black National anthem and the reb flag. Both are divisive and have no place on public property, but I'm not aware of any move to have South Carolina play that song on public property. I would be against that also.
To: Perdogg
That's both hilarious and immature all at the same time! :-)
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:37:47 AM PDT
by
CT-Freeper
(Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
What do you think of the civil rights memorial that also sits on the grounds of the statehouse, near the confederate soldiers memorial over which the battle flag flies? The civil rights memorial contains the likenesses of civil rights leaders, including Greenville native, Jesse Jackson. I wouldn't have a likeness of a living, not to mention controversial, man up there. But I would have no problem with a more noncontroversial civil rights monument up there more reflective of the consensus.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Oh please! Let's cut the "Can't we all just get along" crap. There are people here who would not be satisfied as a taster in a pie factory. The fact that South Carolina was part of the Confederacy is something that cannot be denied and should not be forgotten. South Carolina has a proud heritage as being a state that does not bow to outside pressure or buckle to public opinion. This is what the Confederate battle flag stands for and as such should remain on State House grounds as a memorial to that spirit.
To: Hazcat
The NCAA and NAACP have lost their minds on this one. South Carolina removed the confederate battle flags on the state house and in the state legislature. They simply raised one over a memorial to confederate veteran's and for this the NAACP continues its boycott of the state. And, therefore, its political correct lackey, the NCAA continues its boycott all over a flag flying over a confederate memorial.
Frankly, it reveals how leftist and unreasonable the NCAA and NAACP truly are.
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posted on
07/25/2006 10:43:33 AM PDT
by
MBB1984
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