confederate flag?

[Operational needs]

I think there's a ton of southerners (myself included) that see it as a symbol of southern pride. Nothing more.


I don't fly it simply because of how I'm affraid other's would view it. Your opinion in a very popular one.

I don't have a problem with Southern pride. I may not have been born here, but I was raised here. That being said, the Confederate flag causes actual fear in some Black people to this day. I don't feel that it is PC to expect people to not fly it. BUT, everyone has the right to fly it if they so choose.

 

[bbsam]

Banning is much easier than working toward resolving the underlying issues.

People won't even vote their own best interest. Why would they work at "resolving underlying issues"?

 

[MrFedEx]

They should have banned it long ago for use by state governments. Seeing the flag makes me very uncomfortable, but I don't think it should be banned for everyone. If an idiot wants to fly it in his yard, he should be able to.

The ultimate irony of psycho Ruth is that his actions have actually advanced racial dialogue as opposed to starting the race war he wanted. Fly your silly rebel flag all you want at-home, but it isn't proper to display it in public, especially at government offices. I live in a non-Southern state that is pretty liberal, and we still have retards with jacked-up 4X4s parading around with huge Confederate flags.

BS on the "rebel spirit" argument. The Confederacy ceased to exist in 1865, yet it lives on with the morons who have a romanticized and/or racist view of the South.

Let's all assert our rights and burn the Confederate flag, if you can even buy one to torch. Retailers and politicians are running away from it as fast as they can.

The South lost. Get over it.

 

[Operational needs]

The mentality which brought about the flag in the first place.

And it will probably never go away. It is getting diluted somewhat with every mixed race child born, but it will never go away totally.

 

[oldngray]

Like it or not, the Confederacy is a defeated enemy of the United States of America. In that light, states flying the Confederate flag seems highly unsavory. Also, whether the Civil War had much or little to do with slavery, the treatment of blacks after the war proved how entrenched slavery was and how the Confederacy resented black sovereignty. That remained for decades and, fair or not, is woven into the flag for many Americans.

Part of that was due to bitterness over Reconstruction and how southerners were treated. To the victors belong the spoils but the North created many problems with their tactics.

 

[Sportello]

The civil war had very little to do with slavery.

Ironic user name. Read a history book.

 

[Sportello]

History, people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decla...outh_Carolina_from_the_Federal_Union#Synopsis

 

[bbsam]

Part of that was due to bitterness over Reconstruction and how southerners were treated. To the victors belong the spoils but the North created many problems with their tactics.

Bitterness? If I remember correctly, there were a fair number of Lincoln's generals who wanted the South demolished. They thought the "tactics" far too lenient. In short, the South got off light.

 

[Sportello]

Part of that was due to bitterness over Reconstruction and how southerners were treated. To the victors belong the spoils but the North created many problems with their tactics.

Yeah, like dismantling SLAVERY and giving Blacks a voice. The horror. I'm sure it was as bad as being a SLAVE.

Maybe if a Southern sympathizer had not murdered Lincoln, things would have been better. I dunno.

 

[oldngray]

Bitterness? If I remember correctly, there were a fair number of Lincoln's generals who wanted the South demolished. They thought the "tactics" far too lenient. In short, the South got off light.

It is that attitude that created bitterness.

 

[burrheadd]

I think there's a ton of southerners (myself included) that see it as a symbol of southern pride. Nothing more.


I don't fly it simply because of how I'm affraid other's would view it. Your opinion in a very popular one.

 

[Turdferguson]

Ironic user name. Read a history book.

Have you? Beyond what is taught in the public school system.

 

[Brownslave688]

Ironic user name. Read a history book.

Lol you think history books are the truth? Read a real book.

Like I said. The winner of any war dictates how that war is remembered.

 

[Turdferguson]

Bitterness? If I remember correctly, there were a fair number of Lincoln's generals who wanted the South demolished. They thought the "tactics" far too lenient. In short, the South got off light.

The economic infrastructure was demolished, rights removed from citizens, military occupation. Tend to create bitterness.

 

[bbsam]

The economic infrastructure was demolished, rights removed from citizens, military occupation. Tend to create bitterness.

It was the South that seceded and the North had far more casualties. Plenty of bitterness to go around. The South got off light.

 

[Brownslave688]

It was the South that seceded and the North had far more casualties. Plenty of bitterness to go around. The South got off light.

Y not just let the south secede?

 

[Turdferguson]

It was the South that seceded and the North had far more casualties. Plenty of bitterness to go around. The South got off light.

North had more casualties because all the generals were southern. Northern industry is what caused south to loose. The cultural and economic devastation they endured didn't seem too light to the people that endured it.

 

[Harry Manback]

So what do all you southerners think about the big push to ban the flag?

I live 15 minutes away from it and I think it should've come down years ago.

 

[Harry Manback]

I wouldn't say very little, but it was more over strong state rights as opposed to strong federal government.

State's rights to do what?

 

[Brownslave688]

North had more casualties because all the generals were southern. Northern industry is what caused south to loose. The cultural and economic devastation they endured didn't seem too light to the people that endured it.

Cinco de mayo helped the north also.


Kept France from setting up shop in Mexico and supplying the south.