Posted on 06/20/2015 12:35:53 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Let me supply some background and, dare I say it, focus.
The campaign against the Battle Flag was begun by The New York Times in 1991 with piece by a Southern renegade writer named Ray Garganus, who "suggested" that it was time to put away the Confederate flags.
This coincided with a new push by the NAACP to spike up black voting turnout, which has been low except in certain years, by waving the bloody shirt and shouting "cracker, cracker! Right over there!!"
Bill Clinton has always demonized the white South with quotes uttered for consumption in the black community about "them" and "those people" (meaning white men), and about how bad and hateful they are. If anyone got up and said something like that about the black race, every journalist in the United States would have a stroke.
The "Confederate flag controversy" is an artificial one, and it has always been a political exercise in blackguarding and demonizing southern white voters, for the benefit of Northern liberal politicians. The "controversy" and the identification of the Battle Flag with "segs" and "haters" and "them" has been purely a project of northern Journolisters and the NAACP.
Sorry, but there it is. Sorry you've been influenced by their clear-eyed malice.
re: “Let us leave the divisiveness behind us, and that includes the confederate battle flag. We have a bigger, and more deadly enemy in front of us, POTUS #44 BHO and the Democrat Party. A better symbol of resistance and freedom is the Gadsden flag.”
Well said, and I completely agree with you. Didn’t know much about Russell Moore, thanks for the word of warning.
A lot of common sense coming from IronJack, right there. Common sense makes everything so easy.
Every photograph is the ‘way to run away’ ...
re: “The “Confederate flag controversy” is an artificial one, and it has always been a political exercise in blackguarding and demonizing southern white voters, for the benefit of Northern liberal politicians. The “controversy” and the identification of the Battle Flag with “segs” and “haters” and “them” has been purely a project of northern Journolisters and the NAACP.
Sorry, but there it is. Sorry you’ve been influenced by their clear-eyed malice.”
I think you mis-read my entire post. I do not view the Confederate Battle flag, nor any of the Confederacy’s flags, with hatred or racism. But, whether we like it or not, the media has been successful in identifying it as such.
But, whether people view it that way or not - it is up to the people of South Carolina and Mississippi as to whether or not they include the Battle flag on their respective state flags. It is none of my business since I do not live in either of those states - nor your’s if you do not live in one of those states.
pedals start to fade by the picket fences .... nobody calls one to ‘pull into a different drum’ ... ‘We’ tried our best ....
Hi D1,
As always, we are seeing eye to eye. My comment would be toward more emphasis - I don't think there is a another more powerful symbol of legitimate rebellion in American culture...
As an instance, if a state were to depart the Union under her own flag, that would be something, alright - But if she raised up that Rebel flag, that'd be a whole 'nuther thing, and the impact would resonate like a bell throughout the South, the lower Midwest(perhaps all of the Midwest), the Desert Southwest and the Rockies. And black, brown, red, yellow, or white, everyone therein would not see it as an endorsement of slavery, but rather, the singular, only, and ultimate symbol of American rebellion that it most certainly is.
Something very much akin to the reaction here. There isn't a Country kid anywhere that doesn't hear that, or that doesn't know what it means... If the Gadsen flag is 'NO!', the Rebel flag is 'Aw hell, NO!"
And that is why the 'PTB' need so very much to discredit it.
yep, it ‘holding a picture’ to save ‘breath’
Just a reminder that, when you're white, you're always still too white for some people.
Now the state flag is a Confederate National (1861) with a Georgia state seal in the middle of the union of 13 stars.
Very clever.
‘am’ accepting what is all alone ...
I do.
‘when the hour is going South’ blame the South ....
it is close to being ‘better’?
sniff ... sniff ... Pretty Girls?
It's also highly un-common these days.
No, it isn't. Nor is it disingenuous to point out that the ethics and morals of owning and working slaves was referenced in Numbers and Deuteronomy; likewise, Abraham's wife Sarah owned the slave-woman Hagar, a "woman of Egypt", and Sarah even pimped Hagar to Abraham as a vehicle for a child, when Abraham and Sarah were childless but after God had promised them that Sarah, who was very old, would bring forth the child would would be the progenitor of Israel.
Of course, that was a sin, but Abraham and Sarah sinned not in owning Hagar, nor even in progenerating on her (she bore Ishmael, whose descendants are the House of Araby), but in doubting God's word and proceeding as if He had not uttered His promise to Abraham.
Georgia now flies the original Confederate Stars and Bars with one small change, and not a peep.
And what about Alabama, Arkansas, & Florida, who incorporated the St. Andrews cross of the battle flag into their state flags? Where are the protests?
wonder why moslems say ‘give me an open window’ ... no daylight moves a moslem but ‘in the end’ the words so hard to find are jihad ...
I thought I'd seen every wackdoodle name for the Civil War by now but this is a new one. Congratulations.
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