so i just read that article on yahoo about the confederate flag.?

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i don't know what to think. how about you? i mean hey if people want to worship a flag that stood for oppression and tyranny then that is their right. but why can't they just admit that it stands for values they still admire?

ya know

slavery
hate
murder
racism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_on_re_us/confederate_flag

j6 how old are you? what maybe 20? well so that you know i have a degree-world history and i've studied american history more so than you. its pretty funny to read your comments in that you simply bitched about my question-but never told me exactly what it stood for.
so you have ancestors who once fought under this flag..so tell me did they own slaves? the reason we fought the war was because the south wanted to OWN SLAVES. yes many young men for the south went to war so they could keep this life style-oh how honorable. if you want me to be more specific. you white folks really did a number on the indians-specifically the south who loved using them as slaves as well (you do know that the north and east slavery wasn't legal right?) so you go and be proud of a flag that nobody but a hand full st ill think is a thing to be proud of. hey many germans still look up to the nazi flag-oh wait..so do many southerns. after all that's where the kkk is alive n kicking. glad 2 hurt your feelings

Answer 1

Plus...they lost.

Answer 2

Did the article say WHERE the flag came from?
I saw a show on tv that described ALL the Flags from the Confederate Army...
Yes, there is more than 1 FLAG. They described 23 different flags...
The Confederate Flag we ALL see everywhere, was for a naval ship that sank in battle less than 3 months after it went to sea...
The next time the flag reappears is in a no-sound really old movie where a "soldier/actor" is riding a horse, carry this flag on a pole.
From then on, unto today - we all act like this is the ONLY Flag of the Confederate South.

PS, The Confederate South. 1% of the population was rich and had slaves. The rest were just poor working people. When the war began, the poor fought the war, the rich did not.

PPS Racism is a word that describes the sub-species of a species. Predjuice is the correct word.

Answer 3

Its funny how people spread the very issues they hate. I admire how you say its o.k. for someone to worship the flag as long as they admit to "your belief" of what it stands for.
So you read an article about the artist and had an opinion but you never stop to think about how short minded it sounds in the ears of the opposition.

The history of everything you listed started with Old Glory and continued on way after the Civil War. The Confederate Flag is a sideshow of history or hatred whichever you wish to label it and can do no more than flap in the wind carried by an actor or an idiot.

People reflect upon it and make empty comments like the question you posted and the end result just draws people in.

You never commented on the previous years before the Civil War, the fact slavery was ushered in under the fathers of our country, or the fact that the U.S. practically ignored the African Americans for decades after the war's end. Need we not mention that for years before, during, and after there was the slaughter of Native Americans, denial of women's rights, and the movement continued today against gays.

The Confederate Army made deals with the Indians. I keep in mind they didn't have a chance to break them but it seemed they had a working relationship.

No one admits the faults of the Confederate Flag because, much like you, they might put 12 seconds of thought into an issue and proclaim glory in some short near sighted remark.
More tyranny, racism, murder, and hate have happened under the American Flag, its just fact bub.

Really, you got to have a mind as narrow as a flea not to see holes in what you wrote much less the hyprocrisy of it. Its nice that such things catch the biggest attention.

Answer 4

I think a lot of people don't realize what flying the rebel flag means. Some just like it for it's looks. I know I used to think it was cool until a black friend told me what it stood for. She told me they were still flying the rebel flag in S. Carolina. Me being totally naive said, " So what's wrong with that." She told me and I have never looked at it the same again.

Answer 5

Frankly, I'd much rather see a piece of cloth hanging from a gallows than a human being hanging from a tree.

Answer 6

My neighbor flies it.

I tell him, "War's over. Has been for a while. That side lost."

We don't talk much about his flag.

Answer 7

Freakin' hicks.

Answer 8

Enough said.

Answer 9

http://www.confederateflag.com
some folks dont consider that it means all that
negative stuff.