(August 18, 2017 at 5:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 5:07 pm)A Theist Wrote: Strange how people can look at something and interpret it many different ways, huh. Some of the Southerners below were protesting to keep the Stars and Bars flying. Would you say these guys don't give a shit about their Southern heritage, or that they're racist because they support the Stars and Bars?
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"The Confederate flag never called me N****r but Blacks and Liberals did."
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H.K. Edgerton, former NAACP chapter president.
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Tell us, then, how do you interpret a swastika flag? How do you interpret a NaZi salute? They strike me as very unambiguous.
As for folks with a Stars-and-Bars fetish, it's possible that they're racist. It's possible that they're thoughtless.
But in either event, they're defending a symbol of oppression ... no matter their color. That is the flag that led charges in a war which was fought to maintain chattel slavery.
This Thou I would go for the former . But even if we allow the later it's does not matter a symbol of black oppression is still a symbol of black oppression . Even if some stupid racists who happen to be black embrace it.
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