Posted on 07/15/2015 3:58:09 PM PDT by South40
FULL TITLE: 4,500 supporters of the Confederate flag create a spectacular EIGHT-MILE convoy in Florida to protest against the inflammatory symbol being taken down
• More than 1,500 pickups, motorcycles and cars took part in event in Ocala
• The 'Pride Ride' was a protest at the removal of flag from state buildings
• Gunshots were fired at the parade but no one was injured, say police
• A bid to take flag down from city's government complex has been rejected
• Organizer said it 'doesn't symbolize hate unless you think it's hate'
Thousands of supporters of the Confederate flag have risen up - creating an eight-mile convoy of cars, motorbikes and pick-ups all displaying the controversial symbol.
Horns blared and flags fluttered from the 1,500 vehicles taking part in the Florida Southern Pride Ride on Sunday.
Protesters against the parade fired at least six gunshots towards the convoy but no one was injured, reported wftv.
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No one reads the Confederate Constitution. It’s as dead as the dead sea scrolls and it bears very little relationship with today’s affection for the rebel flag.
I just read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wonderful story “The Ice Palace” which has a scene in a Confederate graveyard that would tear your heart to pieces - if, maybe, you had one. Not only was Fitzgerald a Northerner, his family was related to Francis Scott Key who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Educate yourself on the cultural and literary value of the South and its flag. It’s not all black and white - but maybe you think that’s a racist statement.
When are you gonna answer Pelhams question that boxed you in?
“Heterophobes” try to use warm and fuzzy words and phrases .... love wins ... gay .... pride .... rainbow ....
There now, that’s better...
Oh you mean his distractions...lol.
No one reads the Confederate Constitution. It’s as dead as the dead sea scrolls and it bears very little relationship with today’s affection for the rebel flag.
There’s the problem. If one defends a flag one should know everything about it.
Don’t you even bother to read the context of my remarks? THE CONFEDERACY IS OVER. But the rebel flag lives on in many ways. I’m sorry that you don’t have any romance in your soul and can only think of ugly things when you look at the flag. Lincoln saw beauty in the song “Dixie”. Andrew Jackson did not. Who would you rather emulate?
I can’t even begin to express how much your type sickens me. You sit there and call yourself a conservative...you’re nothing but a useful idiot for the left.
Are you truly not aware that whispering has already begun about tearing down certain monuments to Washington and Jefferson? The battle flag is the easiest part, the one they thought they would start with. Do you really believe they’ll stop there? If so, you have no knowledge of the nature of the left.
They will keep going until they have effectively rewritten history, as they always intended, and removed every reminder of the country’s white Anglo-Saxon/European heritage.
As for defending the flag, I don’t know who you think you are, because personally I don’t have to defend a damn thing to you. The flag is part of Southern heritage and history, and that’s all the explanation necessary. If you don’t like it, turn your head and look elsewhere.
Yesterday I saw a black guy driving around with a Confederate flag draped over his dashboard and a “Don’t Tread On Me” plate.
The same day, I ran into a guy I know and we talked for a bit. During the conversation, he told me about being with a black friend of his when someone walked by wearing a Confederate flag tee shirt.
He asked his black friend, “Does that offend you?”
The black guy looked at him as though he might be crazy and said, “Why in the hell would it offend me? If you ask me, we ought to all be wearing them before they take away every freedom we have.”
My acquaintance asked, “You don’t think it symbolizes slavery, then?”
Black fellow’s response, “Of course it doesn’t symbolize slavery, but even if it did, isn’t it about time to get over it?”
See, it’s only wrought-up, oh-so-sensitive cases who get their skirts in a wad over a flag.
BTW, I’m waiting with everyone else for you to answer Pelhams’s question. Are you going to dodge it forever?Because if so, you DO understand you’ve effectively given your answer, don’t you?
Kudos, Catherine! You’re as tough-minded as your moniker!
Being pro-slavery is not Conservative. Romaticizing the Confederacy is not Conservative.
Take a look at the Confederate Constitution. Is article 1 section 9 clause 4 Conservative??
Being for state’s rights is Conservative waving the confederate flag is stupid and it undermines the State’s right cause due to the confederate constituions pro-slavery extremism.
I don’t see any difference between the people who want to ban the Confederate Flag and the people that wanted to ban Harry Potter.
Thank you, my friend.
In April of this year, when we had the Sesquicentennial celebration in Appomattox, people flooded in from the Northern states and from all over...many wanting to honor Southern relatives.
This mess concerning the flag is completely artificial, and I don’t expect conservatives to fall for it.
He’s waiting for his estradiol prescription to get his mind right
It could be a girl you know
A Timberland-Carhartt sort
Who knows
They never disclose any personal point of reference
Kangaroo admitted being black.,,to his credit ..,.He’s wrong to me but polite
Over the years some have been exposed as angry yankee GOPe black seminar types
Log Cabin
Jewish New National Review sorts who think southerners hate Jews by default when in reality southern conservatives are Israels blood oath allies
Some Neo Yankee McPherson sorts
A fake priest.,,,a pissed Mormon.,,,several academia
A lecherous but amusing attorney from Louisville
A slew of wideawakes exodus folks
But really you never know much till they just lose it
There is a core of about 20 usernames that survive
RGTN is fairly new
I saw one the other day dated from 2005 but first posting was 3 months ago
They do that
Keep accounts on the shelf
We could infiltrate them you know
Come down here and tell those black folks I described that they're "pro-slavery".
They'll laugh at you for the fool you are.
"Take a look at the Confederate Constitution. Is article 1 section 9 clause 4 Conservative??"
Doesn't matter.
The idiot who shot up the black church posed with an American flag as well as a Confederate one. Are you all upset over that one, too?
Slavery existed in the colonies as a whole for much longer than it was extended in the Southern states. Does that have you agitated?
'Being for state’s rights is Conservative waving the confederate flag is stupid and it undermines the State’s right cause due to the confederate constituions pro-slavery extremism."
What a moron you are. The left's long-term agenda has been repeatedly explained to you, but you don't care, do you? You're perfectly willing to let yourself be complicit so that you can feel all warm and self-righteous...so that you can pat yourself on the back over your tolerance and your race sensitivity.
Yeah, you go ahead and bathe in that enlightened, self-superior swamp. And you'd be better off not coming anywhere near my neck of the woods if you can't bear the sight of a piece of cloth....you'd likely clutch your pearls so hard you'd end up with arthritis.
Now when are you going to answer Pelham, you coward?
Oh, wouldn’t THAT be fun, LOL
Boom!
NO personal attacks
Now when are you going to answer Pelham, you coward?
Reported.
How many Brits were there? I was at Appomattox this past November and fell into a conversation with a young curator there who assured me that many British people love the south and often visit the battlefields. At the time, I was on a quest to buy up all the flags to send to a dear friend who lives in England. Long live Dixie!
Ah, go to hell and take the National Review with you.
Aaaaand she doesn’t care.
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