Isn't the following story indicative of what the Rebel Flag truly represents?

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CHICAGO (AP) — More than half a century after 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, his family sat down with federal investigators to discuss the final autopsy on the boy's exhumed body and to hear about the investigation.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-30-emmett-till_N.htm?csp=24

This, and a failed coup against the United States of America.

Answer 1

you assume those who defend the Rebel flag can read ......

Answer 2

I don't live in the South but had ancestors who owned slaves. That doesn't mean I condone what they did but they are my ancestors. As for the rebel flag. It is something used by fewer and fewer people these days. It stands for bigotry and hate but it also stands for a proud people who lost their genteel way of life. Many today inherit those attitudes, many of which die hard, that went with that flag into battle 157 years ago. The loss was devistating to the South. At the end of the war their crops had been destroyed and so they had no way of making a living for awhile. They had to hire blacks to work on their farms instead of enslaving them. That cost money. The carpetbaggers and skaliwags also helped to keep the South down for many years after the war. For some that flag is a last vestige of what might have been. Of course they could come into the 21st Century and realize that the war has been over for more than a hundred and fifty years. Join the rest of the union. You can't be your own country and so you might as well get used to being part of ours. If that flag did not represent so much hatred, segregation, slavery and insurrection I wouldn't mind but those are the things added to your nostalgia that make the Rebel flag undesirable. Let's put it into a museum and recognize it for what it was and get on with life in the 21st Century.

Answer 3

Uh, I didn't see anything about the confederate flag in that article.

It's the battle flag of the Confederate States of America. It represents institutionalized racism to the extent that institutionalized racism was the only defining characteristic of the CSA. But the flag has other meanings to people in the South: support of states rights, Southern pride, hatred of Northerners. Believe it or not, the flag is a pretty innocuous symbol to Southerners of any color. It appears to be most offensive to white Northerners

Answer 4

sure wasn't a white man punching and robbing that 100 year old ladie in NY.

why is it that a large number of blacks live quite well in the south. go north and Bigotry seens to increase.

and one more time for the record, AFRICAN-american?, the civil war was not fought over slavery regardless of any republican propaganda. it was States Rights and Federal Government Interference. The only reason the south had hung on to the Yankee idea of slavery was economics. the north was Industrialized and wealthy. the south was mostly Farm country . Yankees invented the tool and then used the excuse that we were the bad guys in order to impose their undisputed will.

seems the republicans never change.

Answer 5

A damn sad story. And a brutal murder.
I think that regardless if the woman is in her 70s if she was part of it they should charge her. And they should also list the jury on the case. Any of them still around can live their last years with the shame of it all.

I wonder why it says underneath the first picture in the article that he was lynched though. He wasnt lynched it sounds like he was shot and bludgeoned to dead from what the article says.

Answer 6

Yes, when I see a confederate flag I'm only reminded of the KKK and slavery. The KKK flies that when it marches, the killers of Emmet Till had the flag in their car. The southerners like to excuse themselves by saying is part of their heritage "rebel flag". They were rebelling against their own country and they are honoring the same flag the KKK honors. Why can't they just be proud of their heritage another way? I'm proud of my Peruvian heritage but you will never see me sporting a Peruvian flag. The Confederate flag represents secession and racism in its most vilest form.

Answer 7

No it isn't.... I would really love to discuss/debate this issue with you. But I do not feel that you would be open to hearing anything even remotely close to the truth.

I could open your eyes to many of the myths you have heard/discussed over the years. You would walk away feeling you had won the debate, but also knowing you had learned some things that you had never been taught.

Racism, like life, is never a one way street.

Answer 8

tagging this to the confederate flag is a stretch. I don't know of anybody who has one because it represents racism. Time changes the meaning of things. Once, gay meant happy. Before Hitler adopted it, the twisted cross was one of the most universal religious symbols. I see that flag and think rebel.

Answer 9

It represents the Confederate South. It doesn't represent murderers. The number of people who resorted to this is not as high as you think. What's not good, is the number of people who didn't step forward. Courage in the face of fire is difficult.

Answer 10

I saw a cracker kid with a rebel flag on his bike riding in circles in front of a trailer park here in south Florida.rebel flags represent poor crackers.white crackers in heat man....

Answer 11

Could be that, or it could be Southern Heritage as mentioned. That is something that is based on values such as states rights, a limited government, and strong family values.