Posted on 06/27/2015 3:19:03 PM PDT by Lazamataz
As a 'damn Yankee' -- that is, a Northerner who came to the South and didn't leave -- the Confederate Flag has never really held meaning for me. I understood that for most who displayed it, it meant a reverence for the heritage of the South and expressed the rebellious spirit I so often find, and admire, here.
Then the events of the shooting in South Carolina played out. Dylann Root was found to have embraced that flag, but for different and objectionable reasons of true racism.
The hysteria that followed was terrifying to watch. Both Democrats and Republicans, media and corporations, all jumped aboard a fevered bandwagon that cast aside rationality for a false emotional response. Apple corporation, for example, banned all Civil War games in their app store. Utterly absurd.
The media breathlessly reported every banning, discontinuation, removal from state grounds, and whipped the masses up as well as they could.
The masses were unresponsive. I saw no turning of opinion, and there was no grassroots groundswell for this Southern cultural cleansing, this was a manufactured hysteria and the classic definition of overreaction, but it was at the organizational level. That, my friends, is censorship.
So the Confederate Flag now has a new meaning for this New York-born Southerner:
Naaahhhh ... you'd starve to death and look like shit, all gaunt and drawn from starvation .. lookin' at you in the casket
The huge smile on your face would reveal whether you gave a shit or not.
It had a Governor, a legislature, a Secretary of State, etc., and had issued currency (as had many of the colonies, as well as coinage), much like any other nation.
The federation, first under the Articles of Confederation, and later, under the Constitution granted only limited powers to the Federal Government for the mutual benefit and common defense of those united States, and reserved all powers not so granted to the States and to the People, respectively.
Primary allegiance, thus, was to the States, not the Federal Government, which was not yet a National Government.
That was the reason Robert E. Lee chose to resign his Federal Army commission and side with his native Virginia rather than accept a posting to defend the Federal District (Army of the Potomac).
That choice was deemed unforgivable by the Federals, who seized his family lands and made them a cemetery (Now known as Arlington Cemetery), to ensure he would never again live there.source
My ancestors and relatives fought under the Southern Cross with the First Virginia, and at sea as well. The flag is part of our family history in that regard.
I am not about to abandon it to assuage the trumped up angst of those who have no knowledge of their own history who would have me abandon mine.
Been in the South for 31 years and haven’t had any strong feeling about the Confederate flag one way or the other - it was a symbol to those whose heritage included it. I am thinking of erecting a small flagpole out in the front half of the property and start flying it next to the American flag.
Resistance to centralized, tyrannical government intrusions on local communities of free individuals.
Well said.
As a southern-born northerner, I feel the same way.
Well said, indeed!
AGREED...
You have produced another meaningful, intelligent essay on the crimes
of the “main stream” media, the boot lickers of the dimwit party.
Are they so deeply steeped in the dimwit’s communism that they do not
realize that banning the Confederate Battle Flag is akin to banning the
rich history of the South and the Civil War?
They can try to ban history, but too many people have enough education
to remember it regardless that we are “not allowed” to see the Battle Flag
anywhere anymore.
Wankers.
Thank you for commenting on this issue. I hope people realize how dumb
it is for everyone to get hysterical over this, and how bright you are for
pointing it out.
Thank you. You’re sweet.
My tag line sums up my position on the CBF.
Correction: 302nd.
Write for the joy of writing. Every time you express yourself in words you grow a little bit more adept. By the look of a few of your posts, IMHO you’re growing by leaps and bounds!
It takes one to know one, my Sweetie. :)
BTW, Laz, I’ve been flying my flag of the US unside down for years now, for the very same reasons you offered to define what the Battle Flag of the Confereacy means to you now. And I just agree to the fullest with your definition. it is a fitting new way to look upon the Glory.\ or The Coming of The Lord.
That’s it right there. My tagline still applies.
Diane Alden wrote about the “De-kulakization of America” some time ago. Is she still writing or did she ‘Arkancide’?
I am deeply offended!. Now remove that flag.....slowly
Ok.
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