Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So Give Me The Straight Dope on the Confederate Flag.

It's not about just the flag alone, either, but apparently anything honoring the Confederacy.

Panel that controls fate of Jefferson Davis statue in Kentucky Capitol to meet Thursday

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/24/3915532_jack-conway-joins-republicans.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

UT President Speaks Out on Jefferson Davis Statue

http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/ne...peaks-out-on-jefferson-davis-statue.html

Say Goodbye To The Jefferson Davis Statue In Mid-City As Well

http://thehayride.com/2015/06/say-goodbye-to-the-jefferson-davis-statue-in-mid-city-as-well/


Confederate Jefferson Davis Monument Vandalized In Virginia With Phrase 'Black Lives Matter'
http://www.ibtimes.com/confederate-...rginia-phrase-black-lives-matter-1983665

well sissy, YOU are the one that brought the 'trolling' thing to the table.

Public cemetery monuments will be next.

imagine everyone's surprise when the confederate symbols of hate are gone, and people are still pissed off at each other.

Wonder what will be next?

look for the public cemeteries to be first to ban the Flag. Next will come the forced removal of the plaques and stones.
That is going to cause some conflict

People.

EXACTLY!

There is an entire cemetery of confederate veteransand widows in downtown Austin Texas. Including the grave of General A. S. Johnston. Along with heros of San Jacinto, WWI, WWII, and other dignitaries.
Place is called the Texas State Cemetery. Wonder what will happen there?

Well if you'll take note for just a minute Sam, the conversation is going nicely with the exception of your usual negativity. Get some sun if the discussion is bothering you friend.

Gotta love a valid point!

Keeper!

the flag was raised in the 60's also because it was a centennial celebration of the CSA....

Here is a non-revisionist look at Honest Abe, the great Emancipator LOL

I suggest you read it Barkoff

http://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-lincoln-slavery-and-emancipation

Only if for a same-sex wedding.

lincoln didnt free any slaves until 1863, that being said none were set free just because he "freed" them...he was on record stating he wouldve not freed any slaves if it wouldve ended the war

Rand Paul weighs in on Confederate flag: It’s a symbol of slavery

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday praised South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds, making him the final major GOP contender to weigh in on the issue.

“I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery — and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hatred so vicious that you would kill somebody — I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,” Paul told radio station WKRO.

Paul had kept quiet on the topic in the days following the massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black house of worship, that left nine people dead. A spokesman for the senator told the Washington Post on Monday that he was “out of pocket” and not available for comment.

“There have been people who have used [the flag] for Southern pride and heritage and all of that, but really … to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them,” Paul said on WKRO. “And now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man, and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum.”

While the other major candidates weighed in before Paul via statements and interviews, they carefully avoided taking a substantive position on the issue until Haley joined a bipartisan group of top state officials on Monday in calling on the legislature to take down the flag. Haley’s move, which provided political cover for candidates wary of upsetting voters in the early primary state, garnered immediate praise former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Paul’s absence from the debate was especially glaring given his unusual role in the party on matters of race. The senator has called on his party to aggressively court African-American votes and has put in major work on issues like criminal justice reform, which civil rights groups have made a top priority in recent years.

There’s also an uncomfortable history for Paul, however: He gained national attention criticizing the 1964 Civil Rights Act during his 2010 Senate run (he later indicated his support for the law), and co-wrote a book with a radio shock jock, Jack Hunter— who dubbed himself the “Southern Avenger” and wore a Confederate flag mask. Paul also notably supported the presidential campaigns of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who has fiercely criticized Abraham Lincoln and published years of racially inflammatory newsletters.

Another sign of the issues this country is having, is that a LONG standing statue, of a person is debated as to if it should remain, rather than the fact that some criminal vandalized it by painting it.
I"m willing to bet that IF they were looking for the criminal, and thats a HUGE if, they certainly would pour praise upon them, if found, rather than issuing a summons/citation.

wonder what american indians think of old glory

wounded knee



OLD GLORY

You gotta give Ms.Haley credit...she has balls to think that the 80% of voters who want the flag to stay love her enough to always vote for her.

hope she is shown the door for being gutless