Posted on Apr 30, 2018
Controversy after Confederate battle flag raised over liberal North Carolina county
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When will this flag finally retire to history? Many folks just don't get what this flags means...
Controversy after Confederate battle flag raised over liberal North Carolina county
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"There are no flag pole height restrictions in the Orange County code of ordinance. Specifically related to flag poles or flags."
Well it looks like that's about to change. hahaha! Why do they insist that the Confederate flag represents their American citizenry? The rights of American citizens they want to express is no different than the intentionally confrontational free speech the White Nationalists and Anti-Fa groups invoked at Charlottesville. Let it go, people.
Well it looks like that's about to change. hahaha! Why do they insist that the Confederate flag represents their American citizenry? The rights of American citizens they want to express is no different than the intentionally confrontational free speech the White Nationalists and Anti-Fa groups invoked at Charlottesville. Let it go, people.
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Same guy probably sits in a bar or home and complains about those kneeling during the national anthem.
This flag is not a patriots flag, it is the battle flag of the losing side and should be treated as thus.. (a museum piece.)
This flag is not a patriots flag, it is the battle flag of the losing side and should be treated as thus.. (a museum piece.)
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It will finally retire to history when we judge people not based on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. It will finally retire to history when all peoples decide that people of color are actually people who are equal in standing in all segments of society. It will finally retire to history when systemic racism, including institutional racism, ends.
I personally think that will happen during the second or third coming of Christ.
I personally think that will happen during the second or third coming of Christ.
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Cpl Jeff N.
The flag is retired to history. It is not an official flag at all. Most of the time you see it in any "official" capacity is flying over confederate/confederate and union) cemeteries of other civil war memorials. The Gettysburg battlefield also still flies it. It is a boogeyman for those that choose to get upset by it. I don't own one, fly one etc. I do have ancestors that fought and died in the civil war as confederates. BTW, congress recognized confederate veterans as US veterans many decades ago.
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Patricia Overmeyer
Definition of Bogeyman: an imaginary evil character of supernatural powers who carries off naughty children or adults. Derived from the Middle English word hobgoblin.
I have a hard time trying to imagine that people choose to get upset over the Confederate Flag or that it is a bogeyman. I don't believe the confederacy was just fighting to preserve state rights. One only needs to read the various speeches and other writings of the confederacy's leaders to determine they were fighting to keep their slavery economy. After their loss, I don't believe lynchings were carried out by bogeymen. Lynchings were carried out by people who just happened to be carrying the Confederate Flag. 4000 black men, women and children lynched just because of the color of their skin by bogeymen?
By your own definition, the following would also be true: Those who survived the Holocaust are just choosing to be upset over the Nazi symbols since those were just bogeymen at the "work camps". Your premises does not lead to your conclusion that one chooses to be upset by symbols of racial hatred, oppression and death.
I have a hard time trying to imagine that people choose to get upset over the Confederate Flag or that it is a bogeyman. I don't believe the confederacy was just fighting to preserve state rights. One only needs to read the various speeches and other writings of the confederacy's leaders to determine they were fighting to keep their slavery economy. After their loss, I don't believe lynchings were carried out by bogeymen. Lynchings were carried out by people who just happened to be carrying the Confederate Flag. 4000 black men, women and children lynched just because of the color of their skin by bogeymen?
By your own definition, the following would also be true: Those who survived the Holocaust are just choosing to be upset over the Nazi symbols since those were just bogeymen at the "work camps". Your premises does not lead to your conclusion that one chooses to be upset by symbols of racial hatred, oppression and death.
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