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| Is Rebel Flag Racist? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 2 2008, 09:30 AM (361 Views) | |
| RedRuffing15 | Jan 2 2008, 09:30 AM Post #1 |
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This is something I wanted everyone at this sites opinion on, I go to a school where a lot of people sport the flag, and get mad when people site them or the flag as racist, and I wanted to know what some of you felt as this flag being a racist symbol.
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| kyyankgrrl | Jan 2 2008, 10:09 AM Post #2 |
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A tough call. Personally, I don't care about flags and whatnot. However, it is hard not to see the Confederate flag as a symbol of racism. It represents the Confederacy, and the Confederacy's sole reason for existence was its "right" to own slaves. So yeah, I can see why a lot of people regard this as an offensive symbol. |
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| TheHugeUnit | Jan 2 2008, 10:15 AM Post #3 |
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Come on CC
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I see them all over the place, when I first started to see it I thought it was a Klan member but now I see the southerns just like it. I'm not joking, but some schools in the south don't teach about the cival war since they are ashamed to tell their kids about it. The basically just skip over that time. |
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| Caulfield | Jan 2 2008, 11:23 AM Post #4 |
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I really don't care. If someone wants to display it, go ahead. Words and actions are more important than symbols in determining racism and non-racism. |
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| Element | Jan 2 2008, 02:43 PM Post #5 |
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No, it isn't racist. I don't think most southerners were fighting for the right to have slaves, but for their homeland. |
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| Bloss | Jan 2 2008, 03:24 PM Post #6 |
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no its not racist, its there history and there culture |
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| Caulfield | Jan 2 2008, 03:36 PM Post #7 |
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True. Robert E. Lee said if Virginia, his home state, had chosen to remain in the Union, he would have been with the Union army. Much of it came down to individual states and what they chose to do. Peoples' allegiances ran much closer with their individual states than with the country as a whole, the way the Constitution originally intended. |
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| RedRuffing15 | Jan 2 2008, 04:04 PM Post #8 |
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See, these are all great points, and I agree. But the thought that came to me is that, maybe its not the flags basis to be raceist, but it comes with the territory. Sometimes with the flag you get racism. Take people I know, they wear hats with the flag, and their racist, does that mean the flags racist? No, but does racism follow the flag? Yes, thats why it can get to be tough to deem it racist or not, becuase it might not be racist, but racism follows it, so it can be seen in the wrong light sometimes. Its somewhat like the swastica, the swastica was nothing more than a design thats been around since 3,000BC. And you all know what has happened with the swastica in terms of WWII. Now, you can't own anything with a swastica on it without getting killed for it. Its not the swastica that is bad, but what comes with it, that is. What would you think of someone who has a Rug from the 1920s with a swastica on it? Well when it was made, there was nothing wrong with the swastica design, as it was no more than a design. If you understand how Im looking at it |
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| kyyankgrrl | Jan 3 2008, 02:49 AM Post #9 |
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But what was their "history" and "culture"? The Confederacy wasn't formed to defend Southerners right to eat corn pone and chitlins. It wasn't formed to defend Southern women's right to wear big Scarlett O'Hara dresses. The Confederacy was formed for one reason and one reason only: To defend their right to own, buy, and sell people. And in that regard, the rebel flag is a symbol of racism. |
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| Bo_ | Jan 3 2008, 02:41 PM Post #10 |
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| Bloss | Jan 3 2008, 03:52 PM Post #11 |
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they did form to keep there way of life but they also left the union becuase they thought federal goverment was to strong... there constition favored states rights over the federal goverment |
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| bostonfanatic87 | Jan 11 2008, 10:17 PM Post #12 |
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I think it's a definiite racist symbol. It's a dark part of their history, that's like me as someone with German heritage flying a Nazi flag because it's part of histroy. It's not positive and I don't hold an ounce of respect for those who still fly it. |
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