NAACP wants battle flag off Confederate vet's memorial

AW SHUCKS/FLORIDA TIMES-UNION | 06-11-02 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[TexConfederate1861]

The Associated Press

CRESTVIEW, Fla. - The NAACP wants the Confederate battle flag removed from a memorial on city property that honors Florida's last Civil War veteran, who died in 1957.

Sabu Williams, local chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on Monday likened the flag to the Berlin Wall, contending it represents a wall of terror, hatred, murder, bigotry and shame.

"The heritage of the Confederate battle flag is that it was meant to divide," Williams told the City Council. "Today we should be looking at things that bind us, not divide us."

The council delayed a decision until June 24 after listening to Williams and some of about 70 other citizens who packed its chambers. Each side was given 10 minutes.

Martin Barker, representing the Florida Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the flag is a sign of history, not hate.

"History is a fact," Barker said. "We can't change it, but we can learn from it. If we bury it, we will deprive our children and our grandchildren of that fact."

The memorial was put up along State Road 85, one of Crestview's main thoroughfares, a year after William "Uncle Bill" Lundy died in this Florida Panhandle city. An earlier move to remove the flag failed in 1996.

Williams said he had no issue with the memorial, just the flag.

One of Lundy's grandsons, Hayden Lundy, argued to keep the flag, saying his grandfather never hated anyone.

"Uncle Bill Lundy was a loving man," he said.

The NAACP has organized protests and economic boycotts in other places where it has fought to bring down the Confederate flag.

"We will do what we have to do," Williams said. "We will not stop until we have succeeded in removing that flag."

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[TexConfederate1861]

Another example of the NAACP's legacy of hatred....

[Jen]

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Gimmie an 'O'
Gimmie an 'H'
What's it spell?

DOH!

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[goldstategop]

The NAACLP is America's no 1 purveyor of terrorism.

[What Is Ain't]

The National Association for the Advancement of Cranky People is becoming increasingly tiresome.

[DWSUWF]

"...Sabu Williams, local chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on Monday likened the flag to the Berlin Wall, contending it represents a wall of terror, hatred, murder, bigotry and shame..."

Sabu?

Where the Hell have I heard that name before?

Oh yeah! He's the little lemur character on the 'Zoboomafoo' show!

Kewl...

[goldstategop]

Ain't that the truth. Just out of curiosity, how many people visited this memorial before the NAACLP publicized it? The irony is more people will now get to view the Confederate battle flag than if the group simply had the smarts to keep its big mouth shut. But knowing when to pick one's fights is beyond them.

[Dixielander]

To the NAACP: So you want the battle flag off Confederate vet's memorial. I say to you in response:

Not no, but HELL NO, you thieving misanthropes, you purveyors of hatred, you ungrateful, pathetic sub-humans.

Note for clarification: This message is intended for the NAACP creeps and their ilk. It is not intended for the decent blacks of this country, of whom there are many.

[TomServo]

The NAACP wants the Confederate battle flag removed....

The NAACP wants this, the NAACP wants that, the NAACP wants it all. Well the NAACP can want in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up the fastest. FOAD.

[Dakmar]

Sabu Williams, local chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on Monday likened the flag to the Berlin Wall, contending it represents a wall of terror, hatred, murder, bigotry and shame.

Sabu, if you are lurking out there, I want you to do something: Take a deep breath...ask yourself why you are so upset with a marker comemmorating the death of Floridas last Civil War veteran. Do you fell better now?

[tet68]

If you would first destroy a country, destroy it's history.

[lonestar]

If the NAACP didn't spend their time on such foolishness as this, they might have to do something constructive.

[aomagrat]

Williams said he had no issue with the memorial, just the flag.

Translation: Williams has no issue with the memorial at this time. First the flag, then the memorial.

[goldstategop]

Uhmmmm like supporting reparations?? ;-)

[goldstategop]

Get one, then get the other. Its the old trick of not asking for it all now but the truth is its not the confederate flag the NAACLP gives a hoot about, its about people being reminded part of southern history was politically incorrect. Its too sensitive to acquaint black children with the fact this country was once divided by civil war into two nations.

[warchild9]

Consistently, the NAACP wins because Southerners can't take their eyes off television. Florida is also half-populated with useless Yankees (no offense meant to Copperheads--you know the type I mean)to whom "culture" implies professional sports. We'll only win when we focus on the future, educate those Southerners who still possess rational minds, and claim our country back from the Marxists.

[rdb3]

My mom, a hard-core Democrat (although she loathes the very things RATS stand for such as abortion and gay-rights), told me that a piece of cloth (the Confederate Battle Flag) doesn't bother her in the least. She now lives in Arkansas.

If my mom can "get it," what's the NAALCP's problem? I even have this flag on my profile page (iconoclast, I know).

[harpu]

This is the kind of crap that makes this country ripe for another Civil War! It's only going to take a few ignorant-assed wannabes pushing their luck...and then, pop, off come the muzzles from the silent majority.

This kind of sh*t is just as bad as screaming 'FIRE' in a movie theatre.

[TomServo]

If you would first destroy a country, destroy it's history.

Yup. I guess the NAACP wants us to live in the glories and accomplishments of their native land.

[Taft in '52]

Advance the flag of Dixie! Hurrah, hurrah!
For Dixieland, I'll take my stand,
To live and die for Dixie.
To arms! To arms, and conquer peace for Dixie!
To arms! To arms, and conquer peace for Dixie!

[TomServo]

Dixie Ping!!!