Sen. Edwards: "The Confederate flag is an offensive symbol to people all across the country."

Charlotte Observer ^ | 7 February 2003 | Mark Johnson

[Rebeleye]

Matthews challenged Edwards for criticizing South Carolina's flying the Confederate flag but saying New York City's ban on smoking in restaurants is for them to decide. "Why is one a local issue and the other not?" Matthews asked.

Edwards shot back that "the Confederate flag is an offensive symbol to people all across the country."

[PistolPaknMama]

Does anyone remember seeing the pictures of black protestors standing next to huge Confederate flags when they were supporting Reno's raid on Elian's house in Miami, Florida?

I've never seen that picture, but I do remember the huge battle flag in the picture at the Berlin Wall. I also remember a picture of Sudanese (black) freedom fighters standing in front of a battle flag.

When I was in Ireland many years ago I saw the starry St. Andrews Cross on many things and asked a local what it was about. They said it was the symbol of hospitality.

Only in America do the liberal bedwetters view this symbol as a symbol of oppression and hate. Elsewhere in the world it is the symbol of freedom and self-determination.

[WhiskeyPapa]

It doesn't offend me here in Arizona either. In fact, the more these race-baiting commielibs attack it, the more I like the flag.

Consider some words from the people of the day:

"It is all an hallucination to suppose that we are ever going to get rid of slavery, or that it will ever be desirable to do so. It is a thing that we cannot do without; that is righteous, profitable, and permanent, and that belongs to Southern society as inherently, intrinsically, and durably as the white race itself. Southern men should act as if the canopy of heaven were inscribed with a covenant, in letters of fire, that the negro is here, and here forever—is our property, and ours forever—is never to be emancipated—is to be kept hard at work and in rigid subjection all his days."

-- Richmond Examiner, May 8, 1861

"There is not probably an intelligent mind among our own citizens who doubts either the moral or the legal right of the institution of African slavery."

Jefferson Davis, July 6, 1859

Senator A. G. ' Brown said September 4, 1858, that he wanted Cuban, Mexican, and Central American territory for slavery; "I would spread the blessings of slavery . . . to the uttermost ends of the earth." Such utterances treated slavery as permanent, and assumed that it must be defended at every point."

-- "The Coming Fury" by Bruce Catton

Then think about the CSA battle emblem

Walt

[bert]

He wears the Scarlet L

Leftist,lawyer,loser..... take your pick

[ZULU]

"the Confederate flag is an offensive symbol to people all across the country."

Doesn't insult me one bit, and I've been alive here much longer than that hair-brained demogogue.

Can't he find some substantive issue to crow about?? Why are all Democraps such whinning demogogues?

[stainlessbanner]

Edwards mouthing off again.

[stainlessbanner]

Beat that dead horse Edwards. The libs have milked this issue too far. It's back-firing on them.

N.K. is threatening nukes, terrorist alert just raised, and conflict with Iraq is pending.....yet he's still gonna ride that dead horse.

[stand watie]

the DIMocRATS can kiss the southland good-bye FOREVER!

you cannot win a presidential election if you lose the dixie states!

free dixie,sw

[billbears]

the DIMocRATS can kiss the southland good-bye FOREVER!

I hope the Republican Party is paying attention. However I strongly doubt it...

[sweetliberty]

"he can kiss the Southern vote goodbye"

A true son of the south he is not, and obviously not a supporter of the first ammendment either and apparently a supporter of revisionist history. He doesn't support the right of states to self-government. Well, I know all I need to know about him. Not that he would have gotten my vote anyway, but I haven't much use for someone who is a traitor to his heritage.

[stand watie]

President John F. Kennedy requested that the CSA flag be flown on the SC Statehouse in MAR 1961, in memory of the war-dead.

the origional letter is in the USC Relic Room across from the statehouse.

FRee dixie,sw

[stand watie]

the word is SCALAWAG!

a scalawag is a southernborn traitor to one's state. NOTHING is lower than a scalawag. NOTHING!

FRee dixie,sw

[Centurion2000]

Edwards shot back that "the Confederate flag is an offensive symbol to people all across the country."

PLEASE COME TRY and take mine ;) .... remember this is Texas ... lethal force is ok in defense of property.

[sweetliberty]

While it is true that the flag didn't go up on the state house until the 60's I believe it was, it should still have been a state issue. So what if they didn't agree with some of the legislation and chose to make it known. That's beside the poiint anyway. They caved to the initial pressure and removed the flag from the statehouse and placed it at a confederate memorial and the whining malcontents of the NAACP now want it removed from there. If a confederate flag doesn't belong on the memorial for those who died for it, then I don't what does. This is an issue of freedom of which we have been granted many in this country. The NAACP want to take away our freedom. They do NOT have that right. Somewhere along the line they seemed to read that they have a right to not be offended. Sorry folks. THAT one isn't in there. Deal with it.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

That's great that you want to honor your ancestors and heritage. I suppose that also means that since you acknowledge the deep emotional attachment to those ancestors of 140 years ago, that the calls for reparations from the states of the old Confederacy are equally valid - since those people would have as close a historical affinity to the slave culture as you would your ancestors.

You can't have one without the other - it is a two way street. You want to acknowledge and honor yours, but at the same time, you want to forget theirs, and tell them that their history doesn't matter.

[sweetliberty]

"it was raised to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression"

I stand corrected on that....not that it matters. It still is a state issue; NOT an NAACP issue. They are nothing more than the schoolyard bullies and they need to be set straight and sent on their way.

[Polybius]

Hate-mongering Democrat race-baiters are offensive to people all across the country.

[wcbtinman]

Actually, the Confederate flag is offensive to a few bigoted people spread out across the country. Something less than 13% of the US population, who cause about 90% of the trouble.

[sweetliberty]

"the DIMocRATS can kiss the southland good-bye FOREVER! "

I do hope so. If not, they are certainly fast approaching that point.

[Contra]

Yeah, it is interesting how Edwards can speak for everyone, isn't it? I am not offended by the Confederate flag, in fact, it is part of my heritage and I am proud of it. I am offended by an a$$hole like Edwards, however. He did just write off the southern vote, didn't he? He's as much a "southerner" as Clinton and Gore and probably would lose his home state like Gore did.

[Mamzelle]

At the risk of being a spamming broken record, why can't any clever reporter drag Fritz Hollings into this discussion? When the DEM guv of SC in 1961, Hollings had the flag placed on the state capitol as a gesture of insult to integrationists. Now Hollings never has to answer for it, and Republicans do...! It's time to drag his name up, since both on them are Dem Senators.