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Confederate flags burned and monuments defaced as South Carolina protesters lash out in wake..
dailymail.co.uk ^ | June 21, 2015 | Chris Spargo and Mia De Graaf

Posted on 06/21/2015 6:07:40 PM PDT by PROCON

Edited on 06/21/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Protesters in South Carolina have begun burning Confederate flags and defacing monuments as the debate as to whether or not the flag should fly over the state's capital intensifies in the wake of Wednesday's brutal massacre that saw nine people murdered because they were black.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; dixie; dylannroof; protesters; racism
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To: HiTech RedNeck

So - they declared themselves free.

Just as the thirteen original colonies did. They declared themselves free from the rule of George III.

They freely joined a union. At that time where was it written that they couldn’t change their minds?


61 posted on 06/21/2015 6:55:58 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: HiTech RedNeck
>>it's not a donkey<<

Can you clarify?

It's, it's.....

A JACKASS!!

62 posted on 06/21/2015 6:56:10 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ladyjane

They had God to go before, is the issue here.

It just hits me as so much exquisite irony. Their judgment came from God not from men.


63 posted on 06/21/2015 6:57:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

My great-grandfather was supposedly a cavalry officer in the South, although he left there after the end of the war and went back to England (he refused to surrender). He wouldn’t have given a rip about slavery; he was actually British but was living in Savannah at the beginning of the war and signed up to defend his then home. The understanding of my family has always been that my great-grandfather felt Lincoln abused his power and that was the real reason for the start of the war and Lincoln was responsible for what happened thereafter. He couldn’t stand Lincoln, and someone talking about Lincoln, even many years later, was enough to set him off.


64 posted on 06/21/2015 6:57:17 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: doc maverick
Our current whitehouse occupant is responsible for all of this horse sh@t.

Of course he is, and like I said, it won't end well.

65 posted on 06/21/2015 6:58:11 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: kaehurowing

They were also gospel literate enough to know that they would need a special blessing if they were to carry it off. Jesus already warned about kings going to war needing to have a realistic accounting of their forces.

It was not until the South was purged of not only slavery but of Jim Crow that it began to go truly right, in our modern era.


66 posted on 06/21/2015 7:01:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Not all Southernors were/are democrats. The Confederate flag may mean one thing, and one thing only, to you, but for some it encompasses an entire heritage.

Most of us honor our heritage, even though none of our ancestors were perfect. Today I honor my Dad. If the only thing you knew about him was his biggest flaw, you might be offended by my respect for him, as you are by Southernors’ respect for their fathers.


67 posted on 06/21/2015 7:01:28 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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To: ErnBatavia

In case you have missed it, whites are being attacked on almost a daily basis. At the very least we will have more riots in the coming months fueled by the left.

If the rioters head in to a non-black area to rob, loot and burn, they may get more then they bargained for.


68 posted on 06/21/2015 7:05:01 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.)
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To: ladyjane
thousands of blacks who owned slaves in the south

Thousnds? Probably democRATs.

and thousands of whites who did not

Probably not RATs.

69 posted on 06/21/2015 7:05:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: BykrBayb

Some may have protested the abuses, nonetheless they still got ran over by the North in the Civil War.

Proximity works unwanted effects sometimes.


70 posted on 06/21/2015 7:05:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You really like to speak for the Lord a lot don’t you?

Would that be Jesus or his Father?


71 posted on 06/21/2015 7:06:36 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: ladyjane

“Massachusetts never outlawed slavery until after the War of Agression.”

Uh, I believe MA was the first “state” to outlaw it?

I recall that at the Constitutional Convention, it was the only state that had done so.

Perhaps I am remembering wrongly.


72 posted on 06/21/2015 7:07:05 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Sorry, but this is the same exact gripe blacks and anti-American liberals use about America, in general. Endless griping about slavery and the Hypocrisy of the Founders. I.e., America is evil - except during the Civil War. (Please note who always looks at it that way.) Liberals love Lincoln, BTW.

Yet, much more miraculously than people who do not study the RevWar know, the US came to be within a short time.


73 posted on 06/21/2015 7:11:53 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: PROCON

The thing is, the US flag is the flag of slavery, too. The Confederate flag is no more the flag of slavery than the US flag. The Confederacy fought for the same freedoms as the US during the war for independence. Even after the Confederacy was defeated, slavery legally existed in the US for months.


74 posted on 06/21/2015 7:13:04 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Thousands?

Yes. Thousands of blacks owned slaves. There were over 3,000 blacks in New Orleans alone who were slave owners. Some blacks in the south owned hundreds of slaves. Some were slave breeders. They sold their own children into slavery.


75 posted on 06/21/2015 7:15:36 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
These protest organizers are the same ones from Ferguson and Baltimore.

It's really not about the flag.

76 posted on 06/21/2015 7:15:47 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: ErnBatavia

***C’mon...this shit is getting tiresome after twenty years of the same old ‘civil war is coming!’***

Yawn, They have been saying the same since 1968.


77 posted on 06/21/2015 7:17:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: sten

But I went to school with males my whole life and they sat beside me in my history classes. I actually listened and care about history. The males in my classes typically goofed off in history during middle school and high school. That being said, they also typically did better than I did in math. I cannot do math to save my life. I did know a few males in my grade who could match my obsession with history, and I knew several students, male and female, who couldn’t care less about history.


78 posted on 06/21/2015 7:18:10 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear..."- Luke 11:46)
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To: PROCON
Oh, if they could see me Mao!
79 posted on 06/21/2015 7:18:37 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: PROCON

....”These protest organizers are the same ones from Ferguson and Baltimore.....It’s really not about the flag”....

Exactly. ...thank you.


80 posted on 06/21/2015 7:22:19 PM PDT by caww
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