Posted on 11/24/2011 7:25:50 AM PST by octavius21
Over the past several months, the NAACP has launched a campaign against the Confederate Battle Flag by protesting its presence at the South Carolina statehouse. Governor Nikki Haley did not respond to the demands of the NAACP to remove it. In a similar matter, black protesters have called for the removal of the Battle Flag from a Georgian cemetery that happens to have interred the bones of Confederate soldiers. And now, most recently, Republican presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry of Texas has become the newest target of the NAACP over whether the Battle Flag should appear on license plates. In the end, Perry decided against the idea.
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Same for this Yankee!
And this Yankee has never had a problem with it either! Let the South have their symbols. The blacks have their “liberation” flag!
“To be it represents the emblem of secessionist treason. “
So, I guess to you then the US flag would also represent such a thing since the colonies committed secessionist treason against its original country of Great Britain.
Think of why the Confederates wanted to leave the union and think how that is even more relevant today.
Whether the xeno-citizens like it or not, the Stars and Bars are a big part of American history. If the xeno-citizens can’t handle that, they might just want to go somewhere else.
I’ll not make it an issue, but as one whose ancestor ascended Marye’s Heights with the Irish Brigade I see it as a symbol of a treason that cost 600,000 lives, the equivelant today is 6 million. If those in the South have ancestor’s whose martial valor is a source of pride,so be it. But secession brought death, famine, and long lived misery to the people of the Confederacy. Sherman’s regiments may have held the torches but the fire eaters lit the flame and their homes reaped the whirlwind.
Not even close in your logic pal. The colonists were ‘’subjects’’ of a monarchy wanting to establish a new country based on freedom and equality. Not secessionists looking to create their own slave-holding empire.
It is remarkable to me that they make the comment like that dude did and not realize we did the very same thing with the “mother country” and they cant make the connection.
Then, they do not know this, that US Grant would have sided with the south IF, they would not have attacked Fort Sumter. When they did that, he opposed the south.
There are a lot of people that immigrated up here from Alabama and Miss when Grant turned them loose after capturing Vicksburg. Those boys had enough and went north looking for work and my folks gave them that work-later (after the war) sold them property so they could farm and build their own places for their families.
I’ve noticed several articles in the past few months that show a revisionist history slight to the Gadsen Flag, similar to what has happened to the Stars/Bars.
The Gadsen flag is becoming known as the “Tea Party” flag.
If the dopes have a problem with the Battle Flag, then they should also have a problem with the flag of Africa, since their African relatives sold their own people into slavery. I’m sick of the NAACP trying to promote black history, by demanding the eradication of someone else’s history.
i fly the battle flag and also have one on on my truck tag.
And then you proceed to do just that.
Once the Confederacy was formed, by popular vote of the people, there was no treason issue....just separation.
You should be much more careful in referencing General William T. Sherman, because he embodied the evil spirit, the misdirected intellect, and the vile will that the North wanted to impose on the South.
Here is General Sherman for all to see as he was...........a man guilty of war crimes.
The young bloods of the South . . . [are] men who never did work and never will. War suits them, and the rascals are brave, fine riders, bold to rashness and dangerous in every sense. . . . They hate Yankees per se, and don't bother their brains about the past, present or future. As long as they have good horses, plenty of forage, and an open country, they are happy. This is a larger class than most men suppose, and they are the most dangerous set of men that this war has turned loose upon the world. . . . These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.
Memoirs of W. T. Sherman, p. 526 (bracketed word added) http://books.google.com/books?id=_HM3v1 ... #PPA526,M1
I was satisfied, and have been all the time, that the problem of war consists in the awful fact that the present class of men who rule the south must be killed outright rather than in the conquest of territory.
--Letter of William Tecumseh Sherman to General Philip Sheridan, quoted in David Hanson, The Soul of Battle, p. 208 http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Battle-Ancie ... 116&sr=1-1
. . . I fear the world will jump to the wrong conclusion that because I am in Atlanta the work is done. Far from it. We must kill three hundred thousand I have told you so often, and the further they run the harder for us to get them.
--Letter of W. T. Sherman to his wife, Ibid.
This is the type of Field Commander that Lincoln let loose on the South. He is just as guilty as was Sherman.
“Not secessionists looking to create their own slave-holding empire.”
You’re just a racist that believes in southern white people being evil. You’re a known quantity, Non-Sequitur.
“Not secessionists looking to create their own slave-holding empire.”
P.S. That was one of the dumbest statements you’ve ever made, and you’ve made some dumb ones. The Brits were a slave holding empire and we were them. Just where did you think we all came from, anyway? Somehow before the war all the British subjects left and we Americans then fought the British? Maybe the Brits won the war and then they all left and we magically appeared?
The blacks won’t be happy until the GA state flag has 50 cent’s picture on it. I’m sick of 13% of the population running the show. There is nothing wrong with the Stars and Bars. Its part of Southern history just like the song “Dixie”.
This guy is a known idiot. He argues that anything southern is just a racist white person. He’s a total left wing liberal. He once claimed killing all southern people is justified. He forgets his beloved north also had slaves, started the slave trade, and held slaves through the war.
“It’s not a ‘’racist’’ thing with me. More people were enslaved under the Stars and Stripes than the Stars and Bars.”
“Not secessionists looking to create their own slave-holding empire.”
You contradict yourself.
I have no problem referencing Cump. His methods of war were designed to inflict maximum punishment on his enemy and break its will to fight. His success hastened the end of the war and the bloodletting. Unlike General Lee who sacrificed men on both sides for honor and a cause that was lost the moment Grant moved South after The Wilderness and it became a war of attrition. As to your reference material. None of it is unfamiliar to me, and I do not run from it. In fact I, as the descendant of a warrior ot the Army of the Potomac, wish those sentiments had informed the strategic vision of its generals.
Worth repeating! Africans are as guilty, even today, of slavery. The racist blacks just want white man's money, that is all. They want freebies in the name of people that lived 150 years ago. Funny, NONE ever want to go back to Africa, even though they had a nation created for them: Liberia. Still exists today. Here is their flag, notice the US flag similarities.
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