[PeaRidge]

It is important to some that we take down the Confederate flags, and put them away for good. What about taking down all flags that remind anyone in this country of racism?

What about the flags that flew over the hundreds of slave ships leaving Africa full of human cargo in the 1700s? Which ones were those?

What flag was flying over the slave auction center in Philadelphia in 1805?

What flags were flying over the ships from Rhode Island that were trading guns and rum for slaves in 1806?

Which flag was in the chamber of the Supreme Court in 1857 when it declared Dred Scott still legally a slave?

Which flag flew over the U.S. Capitol as newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln endorsed the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution that ordered permanent legalization of slavery in 1861?

Which flag could be seen by the slaves locked up in the pens in Washington in 1861 as General Irwin McDowell marched union troops into Virginia.

And which flag flew over the Supreme Court of the United States in 1898 when Jim Crow laws were ruled legal?

Maybe the question is not where to begin, but where to end this foolishness.

[jmacusa]

What flag was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941? What flag was raised on Mt. Surabachi on Feb. 19, 1945? What flag was attacked on 9/11 and what flag are our young men and women currently serving under, The Stars And Bars or The Stars And Stripes?

[Yaelle]

What about Jolly Rogers? Pirate flags fly over restaurants, in children’s bedrooms, and there are even amusement park fun rides commemorating these bloodthirsty killers and thieves. Why do we worship this killing of innocents?? Ban pirate flags forever!

[jmacusa]

What flag was attacked on December 7, 1941? What flag was attacked on September 11, 2001? The flag you speak preserved the Union and bought about the end of the evil of slavery. The Stars And Bars fought to preserve that institution.

[jmacusa]

“but where to end this foolishness’’. Irony’s lost on you, huh dude?