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The author, Peter Kalajian

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Good response here (outside link)

[Moose4]

Dear Mr. Kalajian: Interstate 95 runs both ways, north as well as south. Take advantage of it if you don't like North Carolina. Please. Perhaps a tolerant, non-racist, inclusive city like Boston or Philadelphia would be more to your liking.

}:-)4

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I challenge anyone to show me an African-American person with a Confederate Flag bumper sticker or "The South will rise again"

[Do Be]

Perhaps you have noticed that no one cares what you think.

I suspect this is a reality which permeates your entire life.

[LeoWindhorse]

I love the Stars and Bars , always have always will.....
Many many good men and proud Americans died under that flag .
It deserves our remembrance and respect as much as the Stars and Stripes.

[Tax-chick]

Puh-leeze! If this twerd asked his Armenian parents how they felt about Greeks and Turks, he'd get an earful of absolutely justifiable HATE, and he wouldn't have to ask how people could look back on their history and wish it had turned out differently.

[Clump]

There are paintings of rainbows on the walls of Sunday school class rooms all across the country. They are there because they are part of God's creation, and they remind us of His promise that he will never destroy the earth again by flood.

There are rainbows on the bumpers of cars all across the country, and they represent a perversion of God's creation of human sexuality.

See the analogy?

[cynicom]

Author needs to study a little more history. Russia was the only country ever to enact a law making antisemitism a felony with a penalty of hanging. Who were the preponderance of lawmakers that passed such a law????

Author seems oblivious to the fact that that our constitution was given us mostly by southerners, some were slave holders. Who brought the slaves here and sold them in the south???

[stainlessbanner]

If you are going to fly the Stars and Bars

That would be this one - most folks wouldn't recognize it:

[NavVet]

I'm not weighing in on all of your talking points, but I've seen KKK, Neo Nazi's etc. on T.V. Oftern they are parading with both confederate and U.S. Flags, often just the U.S. Flag, does that mean the U.S. Flag "stands for hate".

Bottom line, War's over, get a life and when you get it do us a favor and take it to the blissful utopia of N.Y.

[Tweaker]

Note to Peter;

It was busy bodies like yourself that started the civil war.
If the Confederate flag is a symbol of anything it is a symbol of the hatred Southerners have for anything and anyone who doesn't mind their own business.


Well I heard Ol Pete sing about her, I heard Ol Pete put her down. Well I hope Ol Pete will remember, a Southern man don't need him round, anyhow.

[BS69]

The confederate flag represent a country the correctly withdrew from the Union and that was attacked and forcefully brought back into the Union. Hundreds of thousand of soldiers died for freedom from northern dominance.
People wrongly call the war between the states, a Civil War. That is a Yankee term. It was a war of northern aggression. A war of independence. A war of freedom and separation.
Grant marched through the south burning, pillaging, and theft of property. The south will never forget its heritage. Symbols and all. FYI, the war wasn't about slavery. That is just a foolish Yankee idea.

[Texas Federalist]

I challenge anyone to show me an African-American person with a Confederate Flag bumper sticker or "The South will rise again" written in their computers screensaver.

How about the thousands of African-American Mississippians who voted to keep it on the state flag?

[ladyinred]

You know what, this is stupid and this country has lost it's collective minds!

[eagle11]

This story reminds me of a theory I've had for years: that (some) people who identify with a certain group (whites, blacks, latinos, Evengelical Christians, Muslims, etc) exhibit symbols and figures to express their hatred of others or their frustration with their station in life (more perseption than reality). These symbols (or symbolic behaviors) are expressed, by many, in leau of threatening others, outright discrimination they wish were publicly acceptable or outright violence itself.

Our society is a civil one, and most of us don't wish to see it Balkanized, by I sense there are those among us who would cheer if another bloody civil war broke out or if Al'Qaeda had pulled off more 9-11s and killed more Americans. Some examples:

1. Rap artists praising bin-Laden and Al'Qaeda following 9-11, and my own personal observations (and reports I read)of US Muslims cheering as the towers in NYC fell....

2. A conservative state lawmaker (whose name escapes me) stating that McVeigh's hit on the Oklahoma City Fed. Bldg. expressed the sentiments of many on the right who hate the government....

3. Bumper stickers like "If I'd known then, what I know now, I would've picked my own cotton" next to a sticker displaying the Waffen SS emblem....or "I love Farrakahn" or "David Duke for President" obviously displayed by those who wouldn't be out protesting if the violence that both advocate suddenly broke out....

4. Hatred of American and the Stars and Stripes I personally witnessed, and tried to stop during a parade, when several Puerto Rican teens pulled down US Flags and in place hoisted their island's own flag....

5. Residents of Western NC with signs displaying their support for a fugitive who perpitrated abortion clinic bombings....I forget the guy's name....

6. And finally, as Mr. Kalajian points out, the flying of the Confederate Flag by those who espouse white supremacy or nostalgia for the Confederacy....who aren't neccesarily the same people. Hate doesn't motivate all of those who fly a symbol of their heritage...

I could bring up other examples....I wish I'd written them down....of symbols and public figures held up by people who are extremist enough to celebrate their causes, but not bloody enough to follow through on the unspoken desire for a return to institutionalized racism, fanatical religious war against nonbelievers or the destruction of the federal govt....

Okay, that's my rant (I hope this isn't taken as mud-slinging). As an observer of human nature, I have picked up this pattern of behavior in this country and others.

And to Mr. Kalajian: Not everyone who flies the Confederate Flag is a white supremist, just as not everyone who wear the black or white caps of the Nation of Islam, or every woman who wears a veil, supports Al'Qaeda. Thanks for the interesting article, it got me thinking....again.

[mad_as_he$$]

This DA doesn't even know the difference between the Confederate Flag and the Confederate BATTLE Flag. Like all libs lies are easier to defend.

Many a brave man died under the CBF - defending their country from the invaders. Just like many Yankees died defending Mr. Lincoln's vision of America under Old Glory.

Oh yea and before I forget, hey Mr. Peter Kalajian, the American Civil War was fought over STATE's RIGHTS! Not slavery like you were taught in that liberal school.

You make me ill - blow it out your a$$.

[RightWinger]

I just have a small Battle Flag with no words on the back window of my Dakota V8 pickup (no gun rack, revolver in the center console).
The author can read into that whatever he wants, I don't really care what he thinks.

The War was fought for many reasons, including love & hate.

[NurdlyPeon]

Dear Stainless:

Waaaaaaa

Sincerely

[Conservative Firster]

The author is a bigot for being against muliculturism.

[sarcasm]

[Siobhan]

An Armenian should know better than to write a piece of trash like this that is only worthy of an Ottoman hack.