Posted on 06/23/2015 7:43:33 PM PDT by virtuous
Edited on 06/23/2015 7:55:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
What began as scattered calls for removing the Confederate battle flag from a single state capitol intensified with striking speed and scope on Tuesday into an emotional, nationwide movement to strip symbols of the Confederacy from public parks and buildings, license plates, Internet shopping sites and retail stores.
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If we just get rid of that confederate flag, we will all get along and Obama will become a great unifying leader. /s
I will say I am just a recent immigrant to the south, but this bothers me.
Everyone is getting completely over the top, carried away I believe.
Just saying.
Screw the NYT
Hallelujah!
Then West Virginia should rename every building named after KKK Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd.
What is a Kleagle anyway. Half Klansman half beagle?
A democrat party flag that FINALLY democrats are saying should be removed.
The agenda of the Left always advances.
It is breathtaking.
What will the next item be?
The murdered nine in Charleston are already forgotten.
The Left has made this all about a 150 year old symbol that has no power to hurt anyone in 2015.
The GOP is fueling the fire, thinking it will appease the Left.
The Left is never satisfied.
And the GOP never learns.
Wonder how willing state employees in the south are to drop the extra holiday?
It makes you wonder how the subject got changed so quickly and why. It’s like the church shooting has gone down the memory whole. Is there something stinky about that church that they’re so in a hurry to move on? Something political? They said that pastor of the church was political.
Meanwhile in Iraq ISIS is selling 12 year old Christian girls into sexual slavery...
I hope all those clamoring for the removal of the flag don’t take off on that State Holiday in many states Confederate Memorial Day.
The new “State Religion” is Political Correctness.
No established Religion is protected and most are under assault by this “State Religion”
When seeking answers to societal ills, such as the racism that fueled the murders in S. Carolina, the State is quick to jump on a flag as the motivation, when it is actually the Godlessness of the culture.
When trying to determine right from wrong the State demands we not refer to Religious teachings, but rather the State mandated Political Correctness.
I’m guessing there are a whole lot of state employees hoping nobody would notice that.
I’m assuming a high proportion of those state employees are black.
The left is on to this now because they couldn’t foment riots in Charleston.
see post 15
The people pushing this know damned well this has nothing to do with banning a symbol of racism.
The Confederate flag as it is flown is a symbol of state sovereignty.
The effort to ban the Confederate flag is just another example of the Statists stomping their boots on the face of anyone who tries to escape the iron fist of the federal leviathan.
Remember when the Left used to oppose censorship?
They won’t be upset. They will get a new holiday: Barack Obama’s birthday!
If a piece of cloth can "progressively" symbolize hate and oppression without any hope of repentance and reconciliation in the hearts of those who value that symbol, then the head of an organization that actually inflicted hate and oppression should be similarly stricken without forgiveness.
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