We didn't hang that flag, say fraternity/Greenville, NC

[PKPILZ003]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Are you honestly that ignorant? You sound like a kindergartener.

I didn't think it was possible, but now I will have to assume that you are. The Confederate flag represents a nation. I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not sure if you've heard about this, but we here in the south once had their own nation. Crazy, I know.

You should maybe start burning the American flag...seeing as it has oppressed the Japanese during the internment camps of WWII, or even further back to the removal of the indians.

Who said anything about buring flags of any shape?

Wow - I've now seen it all.

You are absoultely correct in stating that the Confederate Battle Flag represents a nation - a nation founded on the ideal that people, simply due to the color of their skin, were not equal. A nation based on agriculture and a system that onnly allowed for that agriculture to flourish under the premise of slave labor. It was a nation that made it illegal for non-whites to learn how to read or marry without a white man's consent. It was a nation that, whose intention was to hope for a military stalemate, sue for peace and then come back to the United States under their terms so they could keep the "peculiar institution".

If that is the heritage and pride that you wish to represent, by all means do so -but don't look amazed when someone takes you to task for that and ASSUMES (I don't assume anything, but others might and will) you're a bigot.

[33girl]

Regardless of anything it may mean as far as black/white is concerned, I think flying/using the Confederate flag as a general "rebellion" statement is STOO PID. That's kinda like flying the Pennsylvania flag if you're against drinking laws because the Whiskey Rebellion happened here.

If I was a descendant of a Confederate soldier, I'd be very upset to see it just being used for whatever tickles someone's fancy that day.

[AlphaFrog]

It also kills me when I see the Confederate flag on a bumper sticker that says "These colors don't run". Hello...the Confederate flag is...red, white & blue.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

It also kills me when I see the Confederate flag on a bumper sticker that says "These colors don't run". Hello...the Confederate flag is...red, white & blue.

I've seen the same bumber sticker with the American flag. It's a play on words: colors can "run" when they get wet, of course, but "colors" is also a military term for a national or military flag, as in "advance the colors" or "color guard."

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat81

I've seen the same bumber sticker with the American flag. It's a play on words: colors can "run" when they get wet, of course, but "colors" is also a military term for a national or military flag, as in "advance the colors" or "color guard."

I know, I get it, but I still think it's dumb. Or even worse was the one I saw with the Confederate flag and the POW/MIA symbol that said "We never would have left you".