Posted on 05/16/2015 1:32:34 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A prominent attorney admits to taking flags from the graves of soldiers, a move that's sparked both positive reaction and calls for him to be arrested and disbarred. He's also received death threats and hate mail.
The lawyer says his actions are meant to promote unity.
A bag of small Confederate flags sits at Union Springs City Hall. They were removed from graves at an old Confederate cemetery downtown, behind the Red Door Theater, near the intersection of Highway 82 and North Prairie Street.
Myron Penn pulled up the flags with his family on Mother's Day. Penn, a founding partner at Penn & Seaborn Attorneys at Law in Union Springs, who served as state senator for two terms and as chairman of the Bullock County Commission, says he did it for his 4-year-old son.
“The reason why we picked them up is because the image of the flags in our community, a lot of people feel that they're a symbol of divisiveness and oppression of many people in our community,” Penn said. “Especially with the history that that flag and the connotation and negativism that it brings. I would think that no one in our community would have a problem with this or with my actions at all.”
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They make it easy
What lies Reb? Y’all didn’t fight a war to preserve slavery? And y’all lost the war you started, having been soundly defeated on the field of battle, those lies? I’m not basing the South Reb, just the Confederacy.
Doesn’t make them kith and kin to me Madame. My grandfather used to go to Shrewsbury NJ with friends carrying ax handles and busted up many a Klan rally.
Americans bud. You and your ilk like to make a distinction away from that fact with you Rebel flag.
My mother passed away several years ago. I own my own home here on The Jersey Shore.
I’m not going to provide you a link. I find it amusing, really, that your reaction to your own regional history comes as such a shock to you. It would do you good to research it on your own and learn that you, indeed, can’t afford to stake your claim on some kind of (non-existent) moral ground.
A piece of cloth means a lot to you. And yet many blacks, upon going north, found themselves the object of more virulent hatred than they ever experienced in the South.
Phony
And get this, little boy:
YOU
DON'T
SPEAK
FOR
ME.
So can it with the "we" stuff.
EOM.
Stick where the sun don’t shine Reb. Been patient with you idiots but that’s ok. I’m grateful God didn’t make me you. Conservatives? You’re no more a conservative than Hitler was Jesuit.
Did Southerners study basic grammar? I’m imitating one of the quaint affections of the South. You’ve made what seems to be a veiled threat in a previous post Madame. Very unlady like to say the least.
No little girl , I don’t. You’re not an American.
I shake my head when I see a Yankee use “y’all” to refer to a single person. I know condescension is the motive, but understanding the words that are the base of the contraction isn’t rocket science.
It’s kind of like that current pathetic anti-Freeper site, attempting to come off as intellectually superior and writing a screed about the black guy in Baltimore having a broken “kneck.” Morons...
If you already know the Klan exists in the North, then don’t try to paint them as exclusively Southern.
You're a liar. In fact, you resort to lies so easily, so readily, so quickly, that I have to assume EVERYTHING you say is a lie.
JMACUSA is a LIAR.
Lol
You’re too easy
You argue like Tamra Holder with Gavin McInnis
I’m gonna go easy on you now
I’ve got to drive to Atlanta now
The capital of black America
Lovely place
Maybe you should move down and feel the love
See if they appreciate you being down with the struggle and all
Maybe you could drive your Boss 302..,,.Boss
Rotflmaopimp
You should. The South is the last stronghold of conservatism. We're holding the line for you folks up in those northern socialist pits.
My sister-in-law from NC(who lives here in NJ) uses it all the time. Is the Stars And Stripes not good enough for Madame? Has every blessing of freedom and liberty you have enjoyed been under the Stars And Bars or the Stars And Stripes? Are you a ‘’Southerner’’ or an American? I’m not a “Northerner’’ or a “Yankee’’. I’m an American. What are you?
LOL!
You folks have only embraced conservatism in the recent past. The South has been historically Democrat since the days of Andrew Jackson. The Confederacy you venerate was Democrat.
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