Confederate Flag Fight Rises Again in High School

WVLT-TV, Knoxville, Tennessee ^ | 1/17/06 | Stephen McLamb

[ktvaughn]

I am with you an our ancestors fight, his was my great-great grandfather:

http://www.civilwarpreservations.com/newmus183.html

I don't need a flag that has been hijacked to remember my heritage.

[ktvaughn]

THIS was my great-great grandfather...

[youthgonewild]

I don't live in any Commonwealth, I'm a lifelong Marylander.

[absolootezer0]

che guevara, la raza, black panthers..
yeah, those are all ok.

[youthgonewild]

I have to actually live around minorities

Gee, you make it sound like a curse.

If it is a curse, then I have it, being one myself.

[azhenfud]

"I have to actually live around minorities, so I don't have the luxury of waving a Confederate flag outside my house living 10 minutes outside of DC."

Many of my neighbors are minorities. Fortunately, most of them are of sufficient intellect to evaluate persons based upon their character and demeanor rather than upon the display of an ancient banner.

I'm sure there are those who want to be "victimized" by that flag, though.

[bannie]

Whether Tennessee was blue or grey...don't we carry our "heritage" with us in our hearts? That seems to be the way of it for other shows of "heritage."

[detsaoT]

I don't live in any Commonwealth, I'm a lifelong Marylander.

Ah, that makes sense. In that case, my hat's off to ya, and my apologies for the misunderstanding.

[JackHawk]

I live in the Atl & to hear the 'N' word a hundred times in 3 hours just go to the Georgia Dome on any Sunday the Falcons are in town. Difference is; it's the blacks using the word in every sentence. Maybe it's a southern black thing?

[azhenfud]

"If you don't want to be identified as a racist in the rural South, you stay away from that symbol."

ROTFLOL!! and they call us who raise that banner "PREJUDICED"!

[ktvaughn]

LOL--that's a whole other thread...

[ktvaughn]

I just calls 'em as I see em'.

I guess one wouldn't go round wearing a white sheet or a swastika and then get offended that somebody got the wrong idea, I guess? Or are people just 'prejudiced' against swastikas?

[groanup]

You're right. The last time I heard the word in profusion was from blacks in my high school in the 60's.

[ktvaughn]

..And, I wasn't calling you or anyone else prejudiced. But dang, if you don't want anyone to think you are queer, don't go to the pride day parade in your gold lame'!

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

My ancestors on my Mom's side fought under the confederate flag and I'm proud of my heritage!

[NJ_gent]

"I don't live in any Commonwealth, I'm a lifelong Marylander."

Ahh, PG County, MD; I know it well. It actually used to be somewhat decent in places. It's unfortunately gotten much poorer and more crime-ridden than it once was. That's what happens when your local public schools are in shambles and nothing is done about it.

Sorry if southern heritage is an embarassment to someone not from the South, but I take great pride in being born and bred southern.

[NJ_gent]

"I guess one wouldn't go round wearing a white sheet or a swastika and then get offended that somebody got the wrong idea, I guess? Or are people just 'prejudiced' against swastikas?"

The KKK historically waved the American flag around at all its rallies and such. Are we to believe that the American flag is a racist symbol that needs to die? Actually, yes if you believe some of the really fringe liberals.

[ktvaughn]

The KKK's hijacking of the American flag was unsucessful.

Blame it on hollywood or no, the battle flag has been lumped in with the "segregation forever" crowd since the '60's, adopted by modern racists and I am afraid it is gone. Wave it if you wish, it's a free country, But don't fool yourself as to what others think when they see it.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Praising and honoring Traitors is no way to fight leftism.

[puroresu]

####Praising and honoring Traitors is no way to fight leftism.####


They weren't traitors. They simply wished to go their own way, just as the American colonists did earlier.

Whose descendants are the most patriotic? Those from Dixie or those from the Dixie-bashing Yankee lands of Massachusetts & Co.? Check the election returns (you can start with the 2004 election) to find out. Who voted for President Bush and who voted for Hanoi John Kerry?