Posted on 07/26/2015 3:50:09 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Why is the left is so intent upon removing the Confederate battle flag from public display? After all, everybody knows that outside a handful of skinheads, people don’t display the Confederate battle flag in order to celebrate America’s “original sin.” We’re long past slavery. Well, not the race hustlers like “they’re going to put y’all back in chains” Joe Biden or his boss – not to mention perennial White House guest and tax cheat Al Sharpton and spiritual counselor to presidents Jesse Jackson. But, by and large, everybody else is past slavery.
Then there’s the point where the campaign may backfire – indeed, wind up infusing the Confederate battle flag with a new and more powerful meaning. After all, there’s a towering example in what happened when the Confederates, refusing to leaving well enough alone, fired on the Stars and Stripes at Fort Sumter.
Yet the left is resolved. And the real reason is not all that difficult to puzzle out. Indeed, Richard Fausset puts his finger on it at the New York Times (July 7, 2015) when he writes that the Confederate battle flag is “a revered symbol, not only of the Confederate dead, but of a unique regional identity.”
That “unique regional identity” is a fork in the liberal’s eye. Liberals have somehow gotten their teeth into the idea that if they can destroy the Confederate battle flag, it will go a long ways toward getting the South to shut up... But at least start chipping away at the South’s pantheon of heroes, its foundation myth, its speech, its cooking, its music, its literature, and its engrained and peculiar affection for the Christian religion and ornery individuals.
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It’s a bold design.
10% of Yankees are hell bent on silencing the South. There rest of them are fleeing their high tax, high regulation, high crime homelands for the South and a chance at a job.
It’s not on the liberally approved list of free expression.
But public buggery is just fine.
I will be flying one as soon as I put my New Flagpole up!
Over broad....there are many of us who wont turn coward and run south....I happen to like winter activities and it’s nice to see the scum driven off the streets by the cold for 4 or 5 months of the year...
And everyone knows there arent any high crime or high tax areas in the south....LOL...yeah right....as for no high regulations in the south?.
North carolina is now demanding the registration of ...CHICKENS?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3316850/posts
LOL.
It’s in your face.
In Connecticut? Really?
And I never pass up an opportunity to remind recent transplants of that very fact.
Y’all have jobs there?
and....... the northeast states forming NeoEuropa must be purged from the union
If you can’t seem to get to the point where you want to put a portrait of Gen. Jackson on the wall in your house then you just don’t get it.
Why does New England get 12 Senators? It should be one state with 2 senators.
Agree. I think it would rank high on a graphics-design ranking alone, never mind what it may or may not stand for.
Bold primary colors, symmetry, good-sized stars, and an X-pattern. What's not to like?
It represents rebellion against modern liberalism and DC bureaucrats. Liberals see its display as an act of defiance.
Give the bastrids the fight they've been hoping for.
That’s a fact
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