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Happy Treason Day...over 100 years later and they still wave that fucking flag. they got their asses beaten so you would think we would have banned them from ever flying that flag on state property.
speaking of "agreements" between southern states and the Union, did you know that Texas has it written in their constitution and in agreement with the US government that they can fly their state flag alongside the American flag? Flag protocol across the states dictate that the state flag needs to be flown underneath the US flag. Talk about cojones!
I took a mental health day yesterday in order to escape the confederacy --so I wasn't able to respond to your posting ... haha just kidding. Even my co-worker, who is as southern as they get and still says the word Oriental people scoffed at the ridiculousness of it all.
In front of the statehouse was a reenactment, as if every freakin day isn't a reenactment here. A woman clad in black, the widow of a slain soldier sat in mourning, under not one but two confederate flags, while a man dressed in confederate military garb, presumably the ghost of her slain husband, held a bayonet. I think he was waiting for General Sherman.
Frankly, I was frightened as perched over my office window and gazed upon the massive state house which looks like the post office on 34th Street. Ironically I wore my coqui lapel pin and was afraid I would be spotted so I ordered lunch in. The specialty of the day in all local restaurants was freedom fries.
Note: I think Mississippi waves a confederate banner too.
My diet of the month prohibits me from eating freedom fries but I was enjoying some Sedition Salsa yesterday. As for the confederate re-enactment, don't you just hate political correctness? I mean, how can you re-enact the confederacy without a slave hanging from a noose? But the liberals would have been all offended, fuckin' white guilt. As that great American Trent Lott said far more eloquently than I, a lot of these problems would have been avoided if only the Confederacy had won.
Please.....no e-lynchings for the following comments.......It seems to me that at least some of the people in the South who might not be rabid racists after all perhaps still support the idea of that there is something to celebrate about southern-ness....the unfortunate history of the South centrally includes the slavery and racism that we all despise, but also includes qualities of chivalry, the importance of family, a slow and beautiful quality of life, church attendance, and its perhaps overhyped but definitely present quality of hospitality. They really are more friendly than us geniuses who reside from the washington to boston corridor. as for new yorkers, well even boston and washington people are nicer than us (but that's for later)
Perhaps their resistance stiffens even more knowing that their flag incenses northeast liberals, who have always made the place to be some inbred, toothless bastion of gun-nut, armadillo eating, barefoot, illiterate racists who talk funny.
Most of the southern states actually incorporated the confederate flag in to their state flags in the 50's and 60's----when Black people arose from their centuries long oppression. Racist no doubt, but should we throw out the baby with the bathwater? 40 years later, Blacks have better chances in Hot'lanta than NYC, the only black governor in america's history was from Virginia and Florida seems to be a mecca for priced out and stressed out northeast latinos who have gotten a foothold in this country. The flag is a relic of an abhorrent past....maybe we can sponsor a design competition for a new southern flag that folks can rally around??
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The Confederate army waived the confedeate flag in their rebellion against this country. It should not be waived at all. It represents treason and revolt against the United States gov't. Folks waiving that flag just over look that aspect and say it stands for the Southern way...maybe it does so for THEM now but you can't change the past. It would be like some skin head waiving some nazi flag and saying it represents the positive stuff in white folks living in Kansas while over looking the entire history of such a flag.
Shotblock--while you remind us of some good things about the south (and some silly stereotypes some folks have about the south), i do hope you don't gloss over the reality of the Confederate Flag which entails treason and rebellion...not to mention how the KKK used and still uses that flag to represent its values.
None here is dissing southern values or souther folk but just the legacy of the flag and the confederacy.
*correction "No One here.."
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