Anonymous
06/07/2015 00:57
Subject: Re:Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:People are, of course, free to debate whether the Confederate flag represents racism. However, it is indisputable that the Confederacy was, for its entire existence, an enemy of the United States of America. Therefore, flying its flag is akin to flying a Nazi flag or the flag of another entity that was always an enemy of the U.S.
Do you know of any articles that might explain this for in depth?
Anonymous
06/06/2015 22:08
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Seriously? Your father was an idiot and so are you.
+1
Anonymous
06/06/2015 21:49
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Seriously? Your father was an idiot and so are you.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 21:14
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Doesn't this seem similar to a descendant of a Nazi flying the swastika, being all proud?
+1. I too have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. It is not a matter of pride for me. Not even close.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 21:13
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The southern states did not tear the country apart. The northern states did that. The whole war was unnecessary.
Southerners were not more racist. Northern states were dependent on the cotton produced by southern states. Even still today Milwaukee in Wisconsin remains the most segregated city in America
+1. However, as you well know, it is the winners who write the history books.
While the losers post this crap.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 21:01
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:The southern states did not tear the country apart. The northern states did that. The whole war was unnecessary.
Southerners were not more racist. Northern states were dependent on the cotton produced by southern states. Even still today Milwaukee in Wisconsin remains the most segregated city in America
+1. However, as you well know, it is the winners who write the history books.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 20:51
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.
Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."
You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.
Well said brother!
PPs, do you consider yourselves to be proud Americans? If so, how do you reconcile that with loyalty to a group that seceded from the United States?
Anonymous
06/06/2015 20:45
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.
Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."
You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.
What a strange reversal of fortune for you.
It's not about slavery for me that's the whole point- you are the one with the fantasy that southern whites want to enslave blacks. If that makes you feel good about yourself (at my expense), so be it. There's no irony, no reversal of fortune. I am deeply proud of my heritage, I walk standing tall and you cannot I take that or my colors away from me.
So taking the slavery thing out, you are still celebrating a heritage of secession. You chose to leave America rather than to work within the Constitution.
You can have your colors. Wear them as a poncho for all I care. It helps to identify you.
Celebrating seccession. Celebrating losing a war. And by the way, the CSA Constitution was more restrictive than the US Constitution is.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 20:28
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Do you find that most women laugh at the inadequacy of your "region"?
They tend to impregnate the women before they are old enough to flee the south. Then they are stuck.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 19:15
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Do you find that most women laugh at the inadequacy of your "region"?
Anonymous
06/06/2015 19:04
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
The CSA was a hostile foreign power. To me, for a US serviceman to be flying the confederate flag would be as inappropriate and un-American as having a US serviceman flying the flag of any other hostile foreign power, such as a Syrian or North Korean flag.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 18:47
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.
Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."
You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.
What a strange reversal of fortune for you.
It's not about slavery for me that's the whole point- you are the one with the fantasy that southern whites want to enslave blacks. If that makes you feel good about yourself (at my expense), so be it. There's no irony, no reversal of fortune. I am deeply proud of my heritage, I walk standing tall and you cannot I take that or my colors away from me.
So taking the slavery thing out, you are still celebrating a heritage of secession. You chose to leave America rather than to work within the Constitution.
You can have your colors. Wear them as a poncho for all I care. It helps to identify you.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 18:30
Subject: Confederate flag
Yuck! Get rid of racist past.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 18:30
Subject: Confederate flag
I don't get being proud of one of the most shameful parts of American history.
Anonymous
06/06/2015 18:27
Subject: Confederate flag
Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.
Doesn't this seem similar to a descendant of a Nazi flying the swastika, being all proud?