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Posted on 05/13/2013 12:53:39 PM PDT by 0.E.O
NIXA, Mo. —The Nixa school district is refusing to allow students to wear T-shirts emblazoned with the Confederate flag to memorialize a classmate's death.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that students wanted to wear the shirts on the anniversary of a Colby Snider's May 1, 2012, death from carbon monoxide poisoning. Besides the Confederate flag, the shirts included the slogan "heritage
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FYI: The South haters are all over this thread.
Envy. Pure and simple. Those who have nothing to be proud of are envious of those who do.
To be fair this thread was started by a major South hater, so we are technically “guests” here.
Assuming you could recognize it if you stumbled over it. Your track record to date, however, doesn't hold out a lot of hope.
And you're very welcome here, rabid Yankee hater though you may be.
And....we are supposed to envy what exactly?
Actually he’s more of an American Constitution hating “I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn” kinda guy...
The American flag flew over legal slavery before, during, and after the civil war. Much longer than the Confederate Flag did.
Do you support banning it also?
The U.S. didn't go to war against the U.S. Nice attempt to deflect.
All you have is silly namecalling which shows you can't intelligently defend your posts. For someone so smart you provide how many autobahn's are named after Hitler. I don't have to that's your question. And you have yet to answer what exactly is southern heritage.
Far from seeking trial, Davis employed lawyers who sought to prevent his trial. His attempts to legally justify not being subject to trial failed.
As a matter of mercy, his prosecution was dropped. After that, noone paid much attention to him, so he wrote his fiction on the ‘rise of the confederate government’ and the ‘fall of the confederate government’.
His return to popularity was based on his work as a fiction writer.
Texas A and M was lucky he didn’t accept a position there.
The confederate flag kept changing throughout the period of the insurrection. The horrors for which the insurrection stood meant that there was little attachment to the pretended confederate flag.
After the war was over, the St Andrew’s cross with the various star configuration became an icon of the lost causers. It could mean anything, as it never represented any set of political beliefs. The Dukes of Hazard TV show used it as a counterpoint to the implicit corruption and incompetence of the local fictional political boss.
It can be what ever one wants it to be. The cause for with the southern insurrectionists fought is wholly discredited. So embarrassing is the cause that new pseudo causes are made up to replace it.
Because of the issues of military control of Davis' imprisonment, Chase refused to issue a writ of habeas corpus in June 1866, but almost a year later, in conjuction with an order to the military authorities from the president, a writ of habeas corpus brought Davis to Richmond to be transferred to the authority of the federal courts. He appeared before Underwood on May 13, 1867, bail was set at $100,000, and the bond was immediately posted. "Deafening applause" broke out in the courtroom when Davis was freed. Horace Greeley, one of a growing number of northerners who wanted the case settled so the country could get on with the healing process, had secured backing for the bond and personally guaranteed a quarter of it. He was in the courtroom that day and met Davis after his release.
After half a year with his family in Canada, Davis returned to Richmond in November 1867 for what was supposed to be the beginning of the trial. Court convened on the 26th, but Chase was not present, and the government asked for a postponement. Davis was released on his own recognizance, and the defense asked that some sort of consideration be given him so he would not be "subjected to a renewal of the inconvenience" of making the trip to Richmond if a trial was not going to be held. As it turned out, Davis would not have to appear in court again during any of the subsequent proceedings.
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Those poor uneducated whites you pity are the descendants of those who died.
You must be ignorant to think only rich planters fought
Lee and Washington are interchangeable historical figures, if roles were reversed each would have done the same as the other. Lee would be the father of the country and Washington would have surrendered at Appomattox. They are cut form the exact same cloth.
Hear hear
Assclown retread alert on oleo
Rest in peace Colby Snider
You must be ignorant to think only rich planters fought
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No, it was really “A rich man's war and a poor man's fight”.
The point is that many of those who celebrate the Confederacy today would have been just as disdained (except as cannon fodder) by the rich landowners who ran the CSA as their forefathers were.
Total retread. Ghost of NS.
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