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| The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation. They also opposed President Harry S. Truman’s proposals to instate anti-discrimination laws and make lynching a federal crime.
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Location: West Texas | FearTheRedPaint - 2015-11-28 4:44 PM
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation. They also opposed President Harry S. Truman’s proposals to instate anti-discrimination laws and make lynching a federal crime.Â
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | FearTheRedPaint - 2015-11-28 3:44 PM The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation. They also opposed President Harry S. Truman’s proposals to instate anti-discrimination laws and make lynching a federal crime.
It was about a President thinking he could take state rights away. He may be President, but those were not his choices to make. He over stepped his powers and caused the death of more American lives than any other time in history. To me he will go down as the 2nd worst President, we still have the first one.
It is people that keep bringing up racism over and OVER and OVER that keep it happening and keep making headlines. I could go on all day about BET television. Do you see WHITE entertainement television? oh HELL no, we'd be racist. They have scholarships for Blacks, but again, it would be racist for a white scholarship. They only have it so bad as they make it There are pleny of black people killing innocent white people but those never make the national news. I am so fed up with the word racism and those that want to play on it. Anyone doesn't like America and all our ups and downs that come with it? I will surely donate a first class, one way ticket to North Korea, Russia, China, Afghanistan. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | FearTheRedPaint - 2015-11-28 4:44 PM
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation. They also opposed President Harry S. Truman’s proposals to instate anti-discrimination laws and make lynching a federal crime.Â
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| It was blacks and muslims doing most of the slave trading. Same as today. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | MYQHFilly - 2015-11-28 4:11 PM It was blacks and muslims doing most of the slave trading. Same as today.
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Location: Ky | The swatiska was not about bigotry, facism and hate but it became a symbol of those things. The Confederate flag was not about slaves or racism but it has become a symbol of those things. To deny that is willful blindness.
I have a neighbor down the road that flies the Conferate flag solely because he says he hates blacks.
If you would fly the Conferate flag when your black friends come over then I suppose you could say you aren't flying it for the wrong reasons?
I know how my black friends feel about it and I would not fly that flag at any time out of respect for them. But it should not be illegal for someone to parade around with whatever flag they want to carry.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | The confederate flag has nothing to do with racism its not racist, its the people that are being racist and its the younger black that are crying racist all the darn time, in my younger days I never heard the word racist untill the last 6 years and its just getting worst. And I wonder why....and why the word racist just keeps coming up everyday. I really know why, just throwing scarcasm here, I am so dam sick of all the racism being brought up everyday.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | FearTheRedPaint - 2015-11-28 12:39 PM So as young lady i come across many people with rebel flags... and in my opinion now a days it doesnt represent "Southern heritage and being proud of who you are" To me it symbolizes racism due to the south wanting to keep slavery and what not. Most "Rednecks" have confederate flags and some of them are the most racist people i have ever met. And IM NOTTTT okay with that. I look at everybody equally no matter what skin color, accent, eye color, or what they wear. I just wanna know what your opinions are and what you think it means. Thanks:) I do not mean anything bashful. Just my opinions and if you would like to further educate me on this topic i would gladly accept it.
http://www.candidslice.com/what-does-the-confederate-flag-really-mean/
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | In a nutshell, people have succumbed to pressure brought about by political correctness, like so many other things in today's world. Even politicians in some of the most conservative states in the country have buckled under the pressures brought about by this movement. I see it as a harbinger of things to come. It takes little imagination to see how the secularists are doing the same thing, and the best evidence for that is the incremental movement toward removing a wide variety of religious symbols, beginning with removal of "God" from the classroom, to removal of the Ten Commandments, as well as Nativity scenes. That incrementalism has moved into the private sector now, with more and more stores opting to omit "Christ" from Merry Christmas, ostensibly replacing it with the "less offensive" "Happy Holidays".
It wouldn't surprise me one bit to see a new movement emerge to abolish the symbol of the cross, probably under the guise that the cross and the swastika share a common origin, according to some so-called experts. Secularists are constantly looking for new pretenses to gain momentum and strength......sadly, it appears to be working, as increasing numbers of young people are shifting toward secularism.
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Location: North Dakota | This is a symbol in history for the South that is eventually a part of the entire USA! My Great Grandfather was a Colonial in the civial war for the south, and I was born and raised in the south! My parents never taught me that black people were bad never! I don't think black people are bad today, I think they have faults in their community like every other race that exists! But I do believe they play the race card as an excuse to be lazy and non-productive!!!! I have lived abroad HALF my life and can tell you the USA is the greatest country to live in by far!!!! If the Blacks or "African Americans" had to live in foreign countrys they would realise how good it is to be an American!!!!! An American is an American!!! Other parts of the world are truely suffering and enslaved!!!!!!! |
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| I have never liked so many post in my life! It seems to me like our country is becoming so divided after working years to become undivided. Ummm I wonder who is causing all of this. I don't consider the flag as support for slavery (racism), I see it as a symbol of our past. I for the life of me can't figure out how a small group of people can cause us to have to remove war symbols, the comandments, the word Christ, God etc. How can the majority be overran by the minority. I don't know if any of that makes sense but I know what I meant. lol |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | euchee - 2015-11-28 7:22 PM I have never liked so many post in my life! It seems to me like our country is becoming so divided after working years to become undivided. Ummm I wonder who is causing all of this. I don't consider the flag as support for slavery (racism), I see it as a symbol of our past. I for the life of me can't figure out how a small group of people can cause us to have to remove war symbols, the comandments, the word Christ, God etc. How can the majority be overran by the minority. I don't know if any of that makes sense but I know what I meant. lol
What is causing the great divide?
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Nevertooold - 2015-11-28 6:32 PM
euchee - 2015-11-28 7:22 PM I have never liked so many post in my life!  It seems to me like our country is becoming so divided after working years to become undivided. Ummm I wonder who is causing all of this. I don't consider the flag as support for slavery (racism), I see it as a symbol of our past. I for the life of me can't figure out how a small group of people can cause us to have to remove war symbols, the comandments, the word Christ, God etc. How can the majority be overran by the minority. I don't know if any of that makes sense but I know what I meant. lolÂ
What is causing the great divide?
OBama..Part of his playbook.
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Location: SE Louisiana | FearTheRedPaint - 2015-11-28 4:44 PM
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
In the late 1940s, the flag was adopted as a symbol of the Dixiecrats -- a political party devoted to, among other things, maintaining segregation. They also opposed President Harry S. Truman’s proposals to instate anti-discrimination laws and make lynching a federal crime.Â
The only reason lynching is a federal crime is because a lot of lawmakers were worried about winding up at the end of that rope!! (which is where most of them need to be) |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | This evil lop-eared bastard we have now seizes upon every opportunity to see the seeds of misery, strife, malaise, and division. He has taken every opportunity to divide us, both amongst ourselves here at home in the US and around the globe as well. You name it....Race, gender, class, ethnicity, and religion. |
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| jd&ez - 2015-11-28 5:34 PM
The swatiska was not about bigotry, facism and hate but it became a symbol of those things. The Confederate flag was not about slaves or racism but it has become a symbol of those things. To deny that is willful blindness.
I have a neighbor down the road that flies the Conferate flag solely because he says he hates blacks.
If you would fly the Conferate flag when your black friends come over then I suppose you could say you aren't flying it for the wrong reasons?
I know how my black friends feel about it and I would not fly that flag at any time out of respect for them. But it should not be illegal for someone to parade around with whatever flag they want to carry.
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I have blacks that live across the road and I fly the Confederate flag. These people know me, I have had their kids in my class at school. They know me well enough to know how I treat everyone regardless of who they are. They don't seem to have a problem. I do however fly the first national flag and not the battle flag.
We fly all of the flags that have ever flown over Marshall TX, right in front of the high school out beside the admin building. We have a black superintendent.
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| Bear - 2015-11-28 8:12 PM
This evil lop-eared bastard we have now seizes upon every opportunity to see the seeds of misery, strife, malaise, and division. He has taken every opportunity to divide us, both amongst ourselves here at home in the US and around the globe as well. You name it....Race, gender, class, ethnicity, and religion.
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Location: My perfect world bubble | SG. - 2015-11-28 3:29 PM This is NOT a Bash But Simply an observation.
Your profile says you don't like to read.
Seriously reading and understanding for yourself is better than Hollywood's view point on subjects.
Try reading history. It really is an eye opener...
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| Nevertooold - 2015-11-28 7:32 PM euchee - 2015-11-28 7:22 PM I have never liked so many post in my life! It seems to me like our country is becoming so divided after working years to become undivided. Ummm I wonder who is causing all of this. I don't consider the flag as support for slavery (racism), I see it as a symbol of our past. I for the life of me can't figure out how a small group of people can cause us to have to remove war symbols, the comandments, the word Christ, God etc. How can the majority be overran by the minority. I don't know if any of that makes sense but I know what I meant. lol What is causing the great divide?
OBama..Part of his playbook.
Yes, I think Obama has set us back several years in the race divide. He pushes the race and keeps people like Al Sharpton going strong. |
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