confederate flag?

[10 point]

Well, luckily for us, you are not on the Supreme Court.
I think even the old maid Ruthie will disagree with you though.

Yes. The country is lucky.

 

[MAKAVELI]

I'm not talking about "both sides".
I am highlighting the issue that thousands of white men and boys died fighting slavery.
Not all whites back then abused those brought over from Africa and many gave their very lives to stop it.

A very, very, small percentage may have tried to stop it. It doesn't change the brutality that existed for anyone who was not white.

 

[bbsam]

You like TOS make too many assumptions .

Governor Nikki Haley signed it. Look up the politics of South Carolina. Simple Google material.

 

[tourists24]

You tell me. They were predominantly from your side of the aisle.

So the race war still continues. I could swore it would end by bringing down that damn flag

 

[Catatonic]

How many weeks of open debate after how many years of contention?

The flag has been there for 50 years.
It was an emotional, knee-jerk reaction.
I'm not saying I disagree with it ... just that the impetus was derived from the shooting incident and reversed a long-standing decision in less than 1% of the "debate" period of the 50 years.

I am glad the decision was made at the State level and not at the National level ... in which case I would be totally against the decision.

 

[10 point]

My bad. Yes, she can jabber incoherently about "southern pride" and all the other gibberish attempting to dispel that which that flag has come.to represent.

Which is simply to say, nothing has been banned at all. Your mother can wear the shirt and the general public may be inclined to view her as a racist old biddy.

"Old biddy"?
Now you're sexist and disrespectful toward seniors?
I got it.

 

[10 point]

A very, very, small percentage may have tried to stop it. It doesn't change the brutality that existed for anyone who was not white.

 

[bbsam]

"Old biddy"?
Now you're sexist and disrespectful toward seniors?
I got it.

I am many things. I don't know how you are tying those things to me, but it's weak and desperate on your part.

 

[Babagounj]

Governor Nikki Haley signed it. Look up the politics of South Carolina. Simple Google material.

I know to which party she belongs .
I have NEVER stated to which party I am with .
But that has never stopped those on the left from making wild assumptions .

 

[Catatonic]

A very, very, small percentage may have tried to stop it. It doesn't change the brutality that existed for anyone who was not white.

It was pretty brutal for most whites too!
I'm very glad I live now than in the 1830s.
People born in the 1900s were very lucky from a historical perspective.

 

[bbsam]

The flag has been there for 50 years.
It was an emotional, knee-jerk reaction.
I'm not saying I disagree with it ... just that the impetus was derived from the shooting incident and reversed a long-standing decision in less than 1% of the "debate" period of the 50 years.

I am glad the decision was made at the State level and not at the National level ... in which case I would be totally against the decision.

This is not the first time the subject has come up. In the past, it's been poo pooed as just a bunch of civil rights complainers. This time, it had strong, decisive wide-ranging support.

 

[MAKAVELI]

It was pretty brutal for most whites too!
I'm very glad I live now than in the 1830s.
People born in the 1900s were very lucky from a historical perspective.

For most whites? Now that's hilarious.

 

[10 point]

I am many things. I don't know how you are tying those things to me, but it's weak and desperate on your part.

You typed it.
Own it.

I'm never desperate or weak. It doesn't mean that much to me to be desperate and by no means does weakness have anything to do with this post.
"Deflection" fits your response better.

 

[bottomups]

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner!

There are what, 11 million ILLEGAL immigrants in this country finding work and raising families. Now, if these 11 MILLION lawbreakers were deported as they should be, the unemployed poor impoverished minorities would be able to actually work and feel good about earning their living, instead of allowing it to be handed to them

Why is it when a Cuban sets his foot on our shores he has the opportunity to apply for citizenship after one year, but if a Mexican does he is illegal?
We deported Elian Gonzales back home and the conservatives had a fit.
Go figure.

 

[bbsam]

I know to which party she belongs .
I have NEVER stated to which party I am with .
But that has never stopped those on the left from making wild assumptions .

I said your side of the aisle. I never said you were a republican. You've made it clear over the years who you sympathize with.

 

[Catatonic]

This is not the first time the subject has come up. In the past, it's been poo pooed as just a bunch of civil rights complainers. This time, it had strong, decisive wide-ranging support.

Because of an emotional, knee-jerk reaction to the church shootings.

 

[Catatonic]

Why is it when a Cuban sets his foot on our shores he has the opportunity to apply for citizenship after one year, but if a Mexican does he is illegal?
We deported Elian Gonzales back home and the conservatives had a fit.
Go figure.

That's an incredible spin job.
My respects to you.

 

[10 point]

It was pretty brutal for most whites too!
I'm very glad I live now than in the 1830s.
People born in the 1900s were very lucky from a historical perspective.

Preparation H wasn't invented for a hundred years or more!
Brutal is correct.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Because of an emotional, knee-jerk reaction to the church shootings.

As opposed to the non emotional response of hundreds of years of slavery.

 

[bbsam]

You typed it.
Own it.

I'm never desperate or weak. It doesn't mean that much to me to be desperate and by no means does weakness have anything to do with this post.
"Deflection" fits your response better.

I own that I typed that the common assumption would be that she's a racist old biddy. No different than how we think "thug" when a young man saunters into a room with pants sagging and.over sized ball cap turned at a.45.degree angle.