[americandream]

Cog

What do you honestly expect. What would your sentiments be were icons of the Islamic Empire to be planted in your neighbourhood.

It is quite reasonable for a black American to seek to expunge any memory of his slave past. To expect otherwise of him would then place a similar standard on you.

In a fully conscious society there would be no basis for these feelings as there simply would not be the highly emotional factionalism that stalks us, in a sort of bastardised play of our pristine animal brethrens instinct driven world.

The racist plantations of the Deep South were a variant the feudal estates of Europe when free labour was the only option and the black or white peasant an easy target.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'I')'m sure you could find a Jew who defends the Nazis if you look hard enough. There are always nutters.

No they should not be respected any more than racists like you should be.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'I')'m sure you could find a Jew who defends the Nazis if you look hard enough. There are always nutters.

No they should not be respected any more than racists like you should be.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'O')r were you trying to say the Scottish flag is a symbol of racism and slavery like the Confederate flag?

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'O')r were you trying to say the Scottish flag is a symbol of racism and slavery like the Confederate flag?

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'E')ven if that happened, which it won't, it wouldn't reflect on the Scottish flag. Scotland did not fight a war in defence of enslaving black people. Scotland was not conquered at all.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'I')t's amusing to read this thread.

Some people would like to deny the History of the Democratic party. It was founded by Andrew Jackson, a slave owner and racist, who also favored stealing land from Native Americans and forcibly relocating them to reservations. The Democrats also presented the only organised resistance to the ERA, which if ever passed would give women the right to vote in the USA. These same people also want to smear the Republican party, which really was founded by Abraham Lincoln on a platform of anti-slavery and in fact always has been and continues to be about equal rights for all people.

These same people want to point to Obama and consider his very existence as proof that they themselves as Democrats, and that party, are anti-racist.

Dream on. Obama's history as a community organizer, his history of litigation as a lawyer in Chicago, his legislative sponsorships, and most of all, his flawed appointments of obvious, flagrantly racist people to multiple positions of authority throughout his administration, are the acts of the most racist person to occupy the position of POTUS since that prototypical Democrat Andrew Jackson.

You just cannot handle the truth, can you? This entire controversy is about some Democrats attempting to suppress the range of Diversity found in the Democratic party. The same party which contains both White Southern Pride groups (including the KKK) and that most racist group of Americans, the Blacks.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'E')ven if that happened, which it won't, it wouldn't reflect on the Scottish flag. Scotland did not fight a war in defence of enslaving black people. Scotland was not conquered at all.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'h')ard headed, stubborn folk!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '[')b]the Scots are fiercely independent minded.

[americandream]

Independent as in think for themselves and not for some laird (or in your case, plantation owner). Dont presume to confuse the Scots with that rabble who sailed Ulster for the Americas.

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This is NOT all about slavery history and racial problems in the past history.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'W')hat do you honestly expect. What would your sentiments be were icons of the Islamic Empire to be planted in your neighbourhood.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'T')he Confederate flag is primarily about slavery history and racial problems in the past history.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')hesterfield mom says someone pulled a gun on her Confederate Flag waving family

MOSELEY, Va. — A Chesterfield mother called police after she said someone drove up and pointed a gun at her family. The mother said she, her husband, her son and a roommate were waving the Confederate Flag on Hull Street in Moseley during the Monday night incident.

In addition to flashing the weapon, the mother said the man yelled something at them before he drove off.

Chesterfield Police confirmed officers were looking for a person accused of brandishing a weapon. Police have not yet released information about a suspect nor suspect vehicle in this case.
http://wtvr.com/2015/07/14/confederate-flag-gun/

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'T')he Confederate flag is primarily about slavery history and racial problems in the past history.

[americandream]

six

For someone who is forever bleating on about the unconstitutional behaviour of Russia, it strikes me as rather unconstitutional to fly the flag of a mutinous and defeated political entity and one which evokes such unwarranted distress and fear in a significant portion of the plural American nation. Lets get this correct, for all your I am a regular guy, you consistently show yourself to be an obsequious and repulsive reactionary of the worse kind.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'T')here is no need to display a different flag in the South because the South has never been a different country.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'T')here is no need to display a different flag in the South because the South has never been a different country.

[americandream]

six

It does not matter if the Souths identity was a hunderd years old distinct or even centuries old, constitutional sauce for Russia is constitutional sauce for sixstrings. You cant have it both ways.

In addition much of your racial problems are down to this repreted humiliation of a segment of your population. This reminds me of the Protestant marches through the Catholic areas of Belfast brandishing the flag of William of Orange. The UK government would not tolerate unconstitutional flags in its territory but even then, the Orange thugs make sure the humiliation is driven home year in year with another humiliating reminder and people wonder why N Ireland remains imprisoned in the Reformation.

I take your point that the South has a distinct culture but like the Protestants in N Ireland, they cannot expect the blacks to sit back and take it with a smile. Thats unreasonable.