re: your posts #19, #22:
I'll see your t-shirt and raise you a few photos.
"The Ku Klux Klan reached the height of its membership -- 4.5 million -- in the 1920s, and, then as now, the Klan tried to wrap its racism and hatred in the flag and patriotism. Displayed at the old fairgrounds in Evansville (Indiana?) in 1925 by Rock County KKK members, the flag pictured is 104 feet long and weighs 345 pounds."
KKK rally, unknown date
Early KKK poster.
Ohio, 1924.
Virginia, 1925.
D.C., 1926.
Long Island, New York, date unknown.
D.C. again, 1952.
Wow! This one's in color; must be recent!
(BTW- what a crowd they have, huh?)
Klan initiation. Where *is* that Confederate flag, hmmm?
Check the sign out.
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N-S:
I could post many, many more.
However, I really don't want to waste JimRob's bandwidth on their trash, and I think I made my point.
Am I saying that the American flag is a "symbol" of racism? NO.
Am I saying we should take it down from every public building just because a vile group like the KKK has appropriated it for their own purposes? NO.
I fly BOTH flags and am very proud to be both a Southerner AND an American. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Don't misunderstand me or put words in my mouth.
I am certainly no racist or KKK member, and your being "angered by (my) implications" will not make that true.
Being married to a Jew, I don't think I would last very long as a KKK member.
As the photos prove, in your own words,
"...your banner has been appropriated by some pretty crummy organizations and I don't hear y'all complaining about it much."
CD