The Confederate Flag

[goodolboy85]

I think the Confederate flag is the most misunderstood flag ever. Everyone thinks you're prejudice if you display it but that's not what it means, at least not in my mind. To me it's always been the flag of the southern states and represents a part of our country, history, and heritage. What do y'all think?

[Charger]

right on brother!

[Iluvflash]

A kid in my county got into huge trouble because he wore a shirt with the confederate flag to school.he did not mean any harm,but he got into trouble because the teacher thought he was offending people.But you know what ,no body was offended.

goodolboy85 ,I agree with you.

[DixieCJ-7]

I agree!

[dixie883rhd]

where I live it is taboo to have things with the confederate flag. It is a bummer

[Eddiemunster]

Dixie883rhd,

I'd wave a gesture and say "Taboo this" to those idiots.

[Iluvflash]

Oh yeah! 8)

[dixie883rhd]

I would love too! But there is too many freaking PC people in the area! It bites!

[Wallywest80]

Yeah it's always funny when people attack the flag but wave the american flag that also had people use it to do many wrongs, even the KKK use it.

i love my rebel flag but i'm too chicken to fly it, so many people would not understand and i don't need the trouble it might bring.

[JESSI DUKE]

Who cares what other's thing. There are things out that are more prejudicest then a flag. I have 2 rebal flags one you can see when you walk in my house and other is on my car. If people don't like it oh well.

I'm proud of show the rebal flag. It's just as much apart of our history as our flag today. If it wasn't for those 2 flag combine where we would be know. People need to learn what the flag actually meant before they put it down.

Jessi Duke 8)

[Eddiemunster]

That's the problem. Nobody wants to learn about it. They are set in their PC ways, and that's that.

[Jumpin' General]

The Confederate flag is nothing to be ashamed of. People call me racist because I have the Dixie cross on alot of my stuff, but I am not racist by any means. Too dang stubborn to open their minds to things the political crossdresser's have tabooed

Jumpin' General

[Capt_Redneck]

It's funny , I have the Confederate and American flags tattooed on my arm. This is the inspiration for my tattoo minus the Copperhead Banner and a meaner looking snake... Great album ....

My white friends at work think it's either a racist or Southern kind of thing and try to make the dumb comments racist comments. My black friends actually compliment me about it because of how colorful it is , how I keep it so bright after 10 years, and wish they could have that kind of color on their skin. Not one black person has ever given me a hard time or asaid something stupid about it. It has been mostly my white friends who think I get grief for it...Go figure..

I'm gone

Darrell

[goodolboy85]

I think it's ironic how white people are the ones that think the flag is racist but colored people don't. People need a serious history lesson.

[The_Dukes_Generl_Lee01]

i'm gonna put a confederate flag up at my house and i'm goona have it tatooed on me and i want it to be huge! YEEHAW! I'm goona by me a the general lee shirt that has the confederate flag on the back of it too. YEEHAW!

[TRPColtrane95]

umm... good idea but why not put "The Dukes Of Hazzard" on flag than regular flag more like hard to tell you more about it. or I like flag with checking flag together easier than one with american flag.. and you guys maybe right about people need learn about history wars from look like but I think this flag general Lee famous name for and explain why.. I did study world and americans history before.. I did have one history book this I bought from North Carolina.. long ago.. how they start first flag are.. make you clear but I like put DOH name on the original flag better than nothing to do.. And I have T-shirt DOH with flag with cousins in the Lee.. but flag own by southern.. thanks.

[GENERAL CHARGER]

You can thank all your racist southern predecessors for the bad wrap on the flag. A symbol only means what people want it to mean. Personally, I've got nothing against the flag. To me, all it stands for is being a rebel. If I was racist in any way I'd definitely have to ditch some of my closest friends.

[Canadian_Country_Cousin]

I think it's so ridiculous the things people come up with. The Rebal flag was a battle flag, what the hell does that have to do with the colour of people's skin? Some people need to get their heads outta there butts and worry about more important things, like feeding the world, giving homes and clean water to people who don't have it, taking care of your family and friends, those are the important things in life! Everyone picks on the pettiest things, Let it go!!! *shakes my head* Those people just don't know what their talking about!

[The Silver Cobra]

Liberals think the flag is racist because they have been brainwashed by the media. The KKK carried the Confederate Flag, but they also carry the American flag and the Christian flag.

The Civil war was not fought over slavery. It was a fight of big government against local government. Big government won, and today we see the socialist effects of this. The government now regulates everything from private business to low flush toilets. The south should have won.

Lincoln invented the Emancipation Proclomation to make slavery an issue. In the Emancipation Proclomation, all slaves were freed, in the Confederate States. They were not freed in the neutral border states nor were they in the counties of the south that supported the Yankees.

Lincoln's propoganda has worked so well that State's Rights is now thought of as Racist. Look at Strong Thermun. ( Was that right?) He was for states rights, and ran for president. After some politician said that the nation would have been better if he had won, during his retirement party, he was accused of being racist and had to resign.

I personally think that the Cause is not gone, but is going to rise again. I am a Confederate. That is the only true patriotism, in the spirit of our Founders.

I would also Hazzard a guess that half of America is also Confederate, whether the know it or not. It is also known as Conservatism.

Does anybody else agree with me?

[Eddiemunster]

I also agree. Getting this half of America that is still a Confederate to unite and rise again is definately not gonna happen any time soon. If this happens, countless people will be like, "Oh, no. Not this subject again. I thought the Civil War was over with." If we start to seperate ourselves again, making a North versus South again, in today's world, we'd probably be even more vulnerable to more terrorist attacks again. They (the terrorists) would see us back to fighting amongst ourselves again and would plan more crazy stuff. Because of this, I really don't think the United States can afford to seperate again.

Personally speaking, I actually do wish that the North left well enough alone back in 1861. If slavery was really an issue, and I know that wasn't a drop in the bucket compared to what other reasons why the Civil War came about, than I'm positive that issue could've been dealt with without war.

I'm a Yankee. I've been all my life. Even I understand one's feeling for the meaning of the Confedrate Flag. Excuse my language, but piss on the politically correct jerks who put the flag down. It's NOT about racisim. Period.

[MattShine]

>>Liberals think the flag is racist because they have been brainwashed by the media.

I'm a liberal who owns a General Lee with a Confederate flag on it. I don't think it's racist per say, but then I was never hurt or tortured while someone was saluting it either. If someone was, they would have a reason to hate that symbol.

>>The Civil war was not fought over slavery. It was a fight of big government against local government. Big government won, and today we see the socialist effects of this. The government now regulates everything from private business to low flush toilets. The south should have won.<<

Yes, you truely love your country. The same way Timothy McVeigh did.

>>Lincoln invented the Emancipation Proclomation to make slavery an issue. In the Emancipation Proclomation, all slaves were freed, in the Confederate States. They were not freed in the neutral border states nor were they in the counties of the south that supported the Yankees.

Lincoln's propoganda has worked so well that State's Rights is now thought of as Racist.<<

Lincoln also brought forth the law so that they could free any run away slaves that had gone north only to be caught by the union army. Slavery was always a core issue and slavery is what prompted many of the southern states to secede from the US.

>>Look at Strong Thermun. ( Was that right?) He was for states rights, and ran for president. After some politician said that the nation would have been better if he had won, during his retirement party, he was accused of being racist and had to resign.<<

Strom Thurmond ran his presidental campaign not for states rights but for segregation. An actual quote is "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches." Lott said "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Then leading Democrat Tom Daschle spoke out in defense of Lott saying that he really didn't believe Lott meant to sound racist. Lott CHOOSE to resign his leadership position and in fact other Republicans (like GW Bush) pressured him to do it. Had the Republican President stood up for Lott he might have survived.

>>I personally think that the Cause is not gone, but is going to rise again. I am a Confederate. That is the only true patriotism, in the spirit of our Founders.<<

That's funny. I always thought fighting FOR your country (not agianst it) was what it meant to be a patriot. The founders of America weren't perfect and they had some pretty outdated concepts on life. The purpose of the constitution was to set an ideal we can strive for. Slavery bigotry and such are anti-democracy and democracy is what is truely what our founders stood for (unless you're history book is different from mine).

To be conservative is not automatically to be correct.

[Capt_Redneck]

>>The Civil war was not fought over slavery. It was a fight of big government against local government. Big government won, and today we see the socialist effects of this. The government now regulates everything from private business to low flush toilets. The south should have won.<<

Yes, you truely love your country. The same way Timothy McVeigh did.

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That was uncalled for. Timothy McVeigh was and will always be a traitor to this country.

Silver Cobra was just expressing his opinion about government and their involvement into too many things. That is what America is built upon, one's self expression. It is his First Ammendment right . That in no way equates to what Timothy McVeigh did...

Darrell

[1hellraiser]

If there is going to be another civil war, (kind of a strange name....huh) isn't going to be over states rights or over who loves their country more. It is going, to be the "haves" vs. the "have nots". Rich people will be against the poor people. In theroy, the Confederacy should have won, their leaders were from west point academy, (Robt. E. Lee,...), and the soldiers were fighting from anger, and rage against a persistantly nosy Union. The union soldiers, and leaders were from the farm fields, and a few were trained soldiers, not too mention severely outnumbered. My question is, are you a patriot for fighting against your own homeland. I would say no, that would make you a treasonous citizen. Not a rebel, or outlaw, in this day an age we need solidarity as americans. If you are classified politically as a conservative,, (as I am) then you probably are a Confederate, politically speaking. You may belive in smaller govt. control, (do we really need a referandom on ketchup) tax relief, and things like that. In the civil war this was a polar opposite, the south was mainly democrats, and the union was republicans. Either way we need the confederate flag, because, members of our families right or wrong died for that flag, as well as the american flag.

[The Silver Cobra]

I am not calling for another Civil War. I am calling for secession (dang, there are too many hard words to spell in this subject). That is what the CSA intended. Lincoln started the War. President Davis said "All we want is to be left alone".

I am also not against America. I believe that the Socialist US government is not the true America. The Confederacy is a much better interpretation of the American dream. Freedom to pursue life liberty and the pursuit of happiness without interference from the government.

Where did the liberals come from anyway? I never thought they would watch the Dukes. I say we ought to cuff 'em and stuff 'em (that's a joke, actually. More liberals ought to watch the Dukes, and express their opinions so we can see what the heck they think)

I think of the socialist federal government as the Duke Boys thought of Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltraine. They do not have all the authority they claim to have, just because of their position. The supreme court does NOT have the power to declare the Pledge of Alleigance unconstitutional, take private property from one citizen and give it to another private entity, and it does not have the power to say that murdering babies is OK. And I do not want to support it with my taxes.

Secession would not weaken America. It would not need to be half the country. It could just be a few hundred or so. Or is that too much like Waco? Remember that? Innocent families brutally burned to death by the so-called American government, because they tried to break free. That is not the America that the Founders wanted. The Confederate States are.

[Eddiemunster]

How the heck did Timothy McVeigh get brought up? I don't understand how a sick and twisted traitor is related to this subject.