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Confederate Flag Clothing Causes Controversy
WSBTV.com ^ | 10-6-2006 | WSBTV

Posted on 10/10/2006 5:08:28 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

The principal at a Fayette County middle school has banned all clothing with the confederate flag emblem...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: cbf; confederate; crossofsaintandrew; dixie; education; saintandrewscross; schools; segregation; southernheritage
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To: mac_truck
NOPE. no ROTC uniform. (wearing the uniform at a demonstration/sit-in/march in THOSE faraway days would have gotten you "tossed out on your ear".)

we could MARCH, and were "released from classes without penalty", by the university president, to be IN the marches.

if i remember correctly, i wore a "coat & tie" to the march, as we were INSTRUCTED by the SCLC/NAACP/SSL "leadership" to "look clean,shaved, new haircuts, well-dressed & NEAT". NODOBY looked "shabby, scuzzy or UNkept"! (even the garbagemen were in CLEAN, pressed uniforms or "coat & tie"!

fwiw, those were GRAND DAYS!

481 posted on 10/25/2006 9:39:18 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: fortheDeclaration
dixie will NOT be FREE until we have our OWN free southern nation.

fwiw, my ancestor, who rode with the Fourth MO Partisans/First Mounted Cherokee Rifles was RIGHT! so were the other 18 CSA soldiers & a CSA sailor from our family!

free dixie,sw

482 posted on 10/25/2006 9:42:04 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
NOT amazing! do you think the MAINSLIME, DAMNyankee/LEFTIST-controlled media wanted that OUT there??? it wouldn't be in the best SELF-INTEREST of the DAMNyankee HATERS & of the current leadership of "the naaLcp". (the NAACP of which i was a PROUD member is NO MORE. it is now ONLY a "house organ" for the LEFTISTS & DIMocRATS!)

NOT bloody likely!

somewhere at mother's, i HAVE a snapshot of the flag & MLK marching in front of the man who was bearing it. as i've said before, i KNOW it's in one of my scrapbooks from "college DAZE"! (as i told someone last year, i'll look for it, find it & POST it "on forum", the next time i go to mother's house in TX, this Christmas.)

fwiw, ONE of the FEW things i disagree with the SCV "leaders" on is their expressed dislike of MLK, Jr & Sr.free dixie,sw

483 posted on 10/25/2006 9:50:05 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
MLK marched UNDER a 6x6 foot CSA battleflag at Memphis!

Hmm. Not a confederate battle flag in sight...

484 posted on 10/25/2006 9:51:33 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: stand watie
(wearing the uniform at a demonstration/sit-in/march in THOSE faraway days would have gotten you "tossed out on your ear".)

By whom?

I can't imagine the Memphis garbage men cared whether their supporters were in uniform or not. Their concerns were more basic.


485 posted on 10/25/2006 12:32:01 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
and you point IS???

do you HAVE a point????

fwiw, i'm NOT in that one either AND i was THERE, too!

free dixie,sw

486 posted on 10/25/2006 2:17:14 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: mac_truck
by the ROTC leadership, of course. and RIGHTLY SO, imVho. (after all we participated in the march as individuals, rather than ROTC cadets! OR even as OFFICIAL representatives of our college!)

btw, are you SURE that that pix is from the MARCH or is it from the demonstration, the week before OR perhaps from the STRIKE (looks like the PICKET-LINE, to me)???

as i said, the garbagemen & the students were told to "dress up" for the actual march. those men do NOT look "dressed up" to me. do they look that way to you???

ALSO (and OFF the subject),: the sight of ACTIVE-duty miliary persons IN UNIFORM demonstrating against the WAR in Iraq/Afganistan REALLY is UPSETTING to this old soldier! (they'd better be glad that i'm NOT their CO!)

free dixie,sw

487 posted on 10/25/2006 2:25:13 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
HMMMMMM. and NOT A SIGN of the UNION BANNER either! (fwiw, it was at least 40-50 FEET wide & about 4-5 FEET tall, on LONG poles.) IF this was Memphis, i can't imagine how the BANNER just isn't IN the PICTURE. can you explain THAT????

so what rally did you get this picture from??? i do NOT think it was MEMPHIS. (perhaps BIRMINGHAM???? or SELMA??? or a HUNDRED other cities, where Dr King marched for civil rights????)

me thinks "you've BEEN HAD"!

free dixie,sw

488 posted on 10/25/2006 2:32:23 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: mac_truck
"mac" check out the picture of Dr King & the other men in the picture that "Bubba" posted in #484.

though i do NOT believe that it was from Memphis, it WILL show you that everyone was "dressed up" for the march, which was TYPICAL for those days. (IF you had been DUMB enough to show up "dirty", "raggedy" or in LESS than "decent attire", you would have been asked to LEAVE, imVho!)

when one garbageman, on the day of the march on Memphis, said he didn't HAVE a coat & tie, one was FOUND for him to wear for the march. i'm sure he was NOT the ONLY one in borrowed clothes!

free dixie,sw

489 posted on 10/25/2006 2:39:01 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Interesting plot.

The decrease in the percentage of blacks in majority white Southern schools in the last 15 years or so might be caused by the increase in Hispanic students across the South during that period. I was surprised to find that Hispanics are already the majority in the school district where I live.

490 posted on 10/25/2006 2:39:22 PM PDT by rustbucket
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To: stand watie
fwiw, i'm NOT in that one either AND i was THERE, too!

Yeah, but I don't believe you claimed that Rev. King marched under you.

491 posted on 10/25/2006 2:44:50 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
did you bother to read #488??? that MISSING BANNER pretty well cinches that your pix is NOT of the march on Memphis.

SORRY, but that TOO is TRUE!

free dixie,sw

492 posted on 10/25/2006 2:53:15 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: fortheDeclaration
#479 is a CLASSIC reason we southrons laugh AT you members of "the DAMNyankee coven".

laughing AT your BILGE!

free dixie,sw

493 posted on 10/25/2006 2:56:59 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
so what rally did you get this picture from??? i do NOT think it was MEMPHIS. (perhaps BIRMINGHAM???? or SELMA??? or a HUNDRED other cities, where Dr King marched for civil rights????)

Sources:

http://www.withers.uwosh.edu/civilrights.php

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/making.mlk.html

me thinks "you've BEEN HAD"!

Once again, any source is better than no source.

494 posted on 10/25/2006 3:02:52 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: stand watie
i can't imagine how the BANNER just isn't IN the PICTURE. can you explain THAT????

Going out on a limb, here, but just maybe because it's as much a figment of your imagination as the giant confederate battle flag that you claim Rev. King marched under.

Here's an entire book on the Memphis Garbage Strike with the same photo on the cover.


495 posted on 10/25/2006 3:20:03 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: stand watie
by the ROTC leadership, of course. and RIGHTLY SO, imVho. (after all we participated in the march as individuals, rather than ROTC cadets! OR even as OFFICIAL representatives of our college!)

Agreed, that is a very good point.

as i said, the garbagemen & the students were told to "dress up" for the actual march. those men do NOT look "dressed up" to me. do they look that way to you???

Well, the man on the left is wearing a suit and the others seem to be wearing collared shirts and/or jackets so they could be "dressed up" depending on your POV. However it was the message on their signs that mattered, not the quality of the clothes on their back... right?

the sight of ACTIVE-duty miliary persons IN UNIFORM demonstrating against the WAR in Iraq/Afganistan REALLY is UPSETTING to this old soldier! (they'd better be glad that i'm NOT their CO!)

Concurring bump. The uniform should be nonpartisan. Leave the politics to Hollywood actors with chronic disabilities...

496 posted on 10/25/2006 5:36:32 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu l’aidera)
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To: stand watie
dixie will NOT be FREE until we have our OWN free southern nation.

LOL!

497 posted on 10/26/2006 12:35:18 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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To: stand watie
fwiw, my ancestor, who rode with the Fourth MO Partisans/First Mounted Cherokee Rifles was RIGHT! so were the other 18 CSA soldiers & a CSA sailor from our family!

My great-great-great grandfather fought...who cares!

498 posted on 10/26/2006 12:44:21 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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To: stand watie

To Hell will anyone who is disrespectful of either the South or the North. It is our collective heritage.

Bought and paid for in Blood.

THOSE REBEL FLAGS
by John Howard Jewett
(1843-1925)

Shall we send back the Johnnies their bunting,
In token, from Blue to the Gray,
That "Brothers-in-blood" and "Good Hunting"
Shall be our new watchword to-day?
In olden times knights held it knightly
To return to brave foemen the sword;
Will the Stars and the Stripes gleam less brightly
If the old Rebel flags are restored?

Call it sentiment, call it misguided
To fight to the death for "a rag";
Yet, trailed in the dust, derided,
The true soldier still loves his flag!
Does love die, and must honor perish
When colors and causes are lost?
Lives the soldier who ceases to cherish
The blood-stains and valor they cost?

Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature's kind, fostering care,
Are blooming,--our heroes are sleeping,--
And peace broods perennial there.
All over our land rings the story
Of loyalty, fervent and true;
"One flag," and that flag is "Old Glory,"
Alike for the Gray and the Blue.

Why cling to those moth-eaten banners?
What glory or honor to gain
While the nation is shouting hosannas,
Uniting her sons to fight Spain?
Time is ripe, and the harvest worth reaping,
Send the Johnnies their flags f.o.b.,
Address to the care and safe keeping
Of that loyal "old Reb," Fitzhugh Lee!

Yes, send back the Johnnies their bunting,
With greetings from Blue to the Gray;
We are "Brothers-in-blood," and "Good Hunting"
Is America's watchword to-day.


499 posted on 10/26/2006 1:31:31 AM PDT by WLR ("fugit impius nemine persequente iustus autem quasi leo confidens absque terrore erit")
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
NOPE. you're 100% WRONG, as usual. a FALSE source is WORSE than NO source, as it DECEIVES the reader.

PITY that you can't figure that out.

free dixie,sw

500 posted on 10/26/2006 9:45:38 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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