No. Perhaps you feel the CBF is equated with cretins like Wallace. Feel free. The Klan used the Stars and Stripes in the 1920s and even uses it today as do neo-Nazi groups -- I've seen it on television. Are you going to give up using the Stars and Stripes?
Even today the flag is a symbol of segregation, and has no place in public life.
Which flag are you talking about? The Stars and Stripes that flew over Klan rallies and over the country when slavery and segregation was practiced? It flew over such for far longer than the CBF, the flag of the Confederate soldier.
Fly whatever you wish, it's no skin off my nose.
That is why then Gov. George Bush had a plaque with the Confederate flag removed from the side of the Texas state courthouse.
Imagine. A politician in the dead of night taking down a plaque that might derail his presidential chances. Money allocated for Confederate soldiers built the court house. Why didn't Bush tear the building down rather than the plaque that indicated where the money came from?
I'm not sure why you hide from history. History is history, and the flag has an honorable past. I fly it on my home, and it should fly on monuments to Confederate dead wherever they are. It should fly wherever in a state the voters of that state wish. It is up to them, not to you and not to me.
Mississippi voters prefer the CBF to remain a part of their state flag, but the philosophical descendants of Puritans would prevent them if they could. Are you one of those?
Feelings have NOTHING to do with it. Wallace and many others like him used the Confederate flag as a symbol of their racist agenda in the 1950s & 60s. David Duke is using it today as part of his 'white power' campaign for much the same reason. These historical facts are not in dispute are they?
Are you going to give up using the Stars and Stripes?
I've already addressed the American flag issue upthread. It doesn't change the racist symbolism of the Confederate flag one iota.
Which flag are you talking about?
I'm talking about the flag white Southerns thrust in the face of blacks to symbolize their opposition to civil rights. You know, the Jim Crow flag. The one the Klan politicians tacked up on Southern statehouses and courthouses in the 1950s, to symbolize their heartfelt belief in maintaining a semblance of racial apartheid in the United States hidden behind the gauze of 'state's rights'.
Money allocated for Confederate soldiers built the court house. Why didn't Bush tear the building down rather than the plaque that indicated where the money came from?
Maybe because the Courthouse was built long before some segragationst democrat decided to tack up another symbol of resistance to black civil rights in the 1950s. That's about the same time other Southern states began incorporating Confederate symbols into and onto 'offical' state property. STAND tells us the folks in power were Klan members, but you'd have us believe otherwise I'm sure.
Mississippi voters prefer the CBF to remain a part of their state flag, but the philosophical descendants of Puritans would prevent them if they could.
I'm sure the AME Baptist church would have a laugh at your comparing them to Puritans. But I guess that's just your way of justifying having to run away from the facts of the matter.
Are you one of those?
You claim to be a Republican, but your views on the Confederate flag are indistinguishable from those of the Southern Independence Party. Are you one of those?
-btw I note you FAILED to answer what message the folks on the other side of that police line were supposed to take away from that encounter with those angy white southerners waving their little confederate flags as they protested against black civil rights. Any ideas?