Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.
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Black folk have been automated out of the role.
I have no doubt that it would. But we didn't lose our revolution while the South, well, you all did lose yours.
I am in total agreement with you. Just as an aside; the “Stars and Bars” is the official Confederate flag. What everyone flies is the Confederate Battle flag. This flag was originally flown by naval vessels and later used by the Confederate land forces.
Nearly every able bodied male in my husband’s family tree served proudly in the Conferate Army. To this day, we fly the Confederate Flag in honor of their service as well as placing the flag on their graves on Memorial Day.
I’m tired of people “making somethin’ where there isn’t nothin’” with regard to the Confederate Flag.....
In fact, when I lived in Virginia, I knew folks who always said “The South didn’t lose the war, we’re only taking a break....”
‘Slavery existed almost a hundred years under the Stars and Stripes, but I guess this ignorant writer doesn’t know that.’
Yep, and the Democratic Party was A Okay with it, even during the war, as late as the 1864 election cycle, which feature George McClellan as their Presidential nominee. McClellan pledged to end the war, and allow the South to form its own nation and maintain slavery.
I’ve found it stunning the ‘black leaders’ don’t show up at Gettysburg every July....and at Antietam/Sharpsburg, and Shiloh, and Vicksburg and of course Appromatox every April.
Wasn’t 600,000 dead, and 1.2 million wounded enough?
We all lost that war. It was the beginning of the end of government “for the people, by the people and of the people”.
Oh, and the Revolution was ours too. Unless you’re going to tell my ancestors that fought in it that they were fighting for the North.
“The South will rise again” is not a military statement, it’s a social and economic one that is proving quite accurate.”
You are correct, my friend. I am a Yankee by birth, a Rebel by choice, and must say I am quite pleased to see that the South is rising - now - right before our very eyes.
Actually, they were fighting to keep the federal government within its Constitutional boundaries.
You mean like...New Orleans? Even pre-Katrina?
Was it worth 1,000,000 of you Northerners to keep the South in the Union???
There was no we as far as Kansas was concerned, since it didn't exist. Your Kansans came from elsewhere, both north and south, and was quite the tumultuous place in that era, moreso than many states. So, don't go wrapping yourself in the Revolution, as if it were uniquely yours. That war was won in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. I know it's hard for you, but try to remember that.
In Germany, the Nazi flag and the Swastika, the political symbols of the Nazis, are banned.
However, the Iron Cross, which was and is the symbol of the German warrior and equivalent to the Confederate Battle Flag, is still in use as the honored symbol of the German warrior.
Iron Crosss, World War One Era
Iron Crosss, World War Two Era
Iron Crosss, Post-World War Two Era
Once you allow the race baiters to demonize the Confederate Battle Flag, Old Glory is next.
“Shows how very little you know about the South. It also shows what kind of bigot you are.”
I often disagree with you, but in this case you have it EXACTLY RIGHT.
BTTT!
Like, say, New Orleans?
Brings back memories for me. In the rust belt 1983 - I was 19, drove a ‘72 chevelle with a rebel flag plate on the front. Lived in a racially-mixed area and had several black friends. Never thought of it as a racial thing but as a ‘question authority’ - ‘rebel’ type of thing.
“A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.”
‘You mean with an industrial base run be what were essentially slaves?’
Ah, no.
I meant if you are going to assign a vehicle to represent U.S. Grant, a steamroller is more appropriate than a GTO. Grant understood the unique advantage of the North in the war that was, until he assumed overall command, never utilized effectively. Which is why the war lasted four years, instead of 18 months in my opinion.
Grant put all the Union armies into motion at the same time, something Lincoln had wanted from each of the previous generals. The refusal to coordinate in every theater allowed the Confederates to ‘hold in place’ in one theater of the war and reinforce wherever the Union was attacking heaviest. For example, Lee detailed Longstreet’s corps to Tennessee at one point to stop Rosecrans and force him back into Chattanoga where his army almost starved before Grant opened the ‘cracker line’. The only reason Lee was able to do this was the lack of concerted action on all fronts, specifically in this instance the ‘eastern theater’ (Virginia).
Grant ‘steamrolled’ the South in short. Which is why the war ended so quickly after he assumed command (comparatively).
Sure and The South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year.
“Never thought of it as a racial thing but as a ‘question authority’ - ‘rebel’ type of thing.”
People used to be less stupid.
“Ah, no.”
It was the industrial base of the North that gave them victory. Do you deny this?
If not, then why are you arguing the point?
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