Gov Haley demands rebel flag removal

[Pants II]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Coach, thank you for the history lesson (I am being sincere when I say that), many of the points you raise I am familiar with (the Lincoln plans to deport blacks I hadn't heard before) but I don't base my opposition to the rebel flag on the civil war and other events of that era, I base it on what that flag has become. In the late 60's, I was part of the freedom marches in various southern states and came face to face with racial hatred, folks wearing white sheets and carrying the rebel flag cursed and threatened us daily, poured hot coffee and urine on us, struck us with fists and ball bats. To them, that flag represented their hatred and racism, to us it came to represent the same. Reality is 99% perception and the perception of many is that the rebel flag is a racist symbol. Just as in Germany where the swastika was hijacked by the Nazis and turned into a symbol of racial hatred there, the rebel flag has been hijacked by hatred here. While what you say may be 100% true, perceptions are perceptions and both sides may be uniformed of the actual history but that has become irrelevant.

Yes and just about every group who used the confederate flag to incite racial hatred was funded and/or infiltrated by government officials.

Bringing up the past repeatedly to give certain people an upper hand in debate. Like I had anything to do with slavery.

It's an Alinsky tactic. I'm really fed up with liberals in general. I don't like chicken hawk republican war mongers either but this has been 6 years of non-stop divide and conquer by this administration and its supporters.

They don't want equality. They want vengeance. They don't want to follow the Constitution. They want to delve into intentional deviant semantics.

It brings out pure hatred in me. These people aren't good. They don't have the best interests of this country at heart. Their solutions don't produce any semblance of prosperity and sustainability whatsoever.

They are ensuring that white people will be the new slaves in the 22nd century. There are more minority children in this country than white children.

It's over, somer. Whites will suffer the same brutality, if not worse, than black people and any other minority you can think of.

Why? Because we, as a species, are stupid. We never learn from our mistakes. We try to re-write history and erase the truth.

And we're all worse off for it and I refuse to be around people like GenuineRisk and Danzig.

They're awful people.

Take care and good luck to the rest of you who still have some common sense. Keep your family close in these coming years.