Teen sues over Confederate flag prom dress

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Originally posted by moe.ron
Seriously, I can't see anything good comming out of the Confederate flag when it come to fashion.

Belt buckles! Lil Jon', Andre3000, and Me!
Andre 3000, a member of the extremely popular Outkast, who frequently wears a Confederate flag belt buckle, is quoted saying, “I wear the belt for Southern pride and to rebel. I don’t take the Confederate flag that serious as far as the racial part is concerned.” ( here )

Originally posted by Rudey
What is so endearing about this flag that even after its modern association with racism, that people want to remember the other things it is associated with?
-Rudey

Lots of symbols are associated with a negative idealogy different from the positive one at it's conception. But I think we should derive the meaning of the symbol E re nata, and not remove a piece of culture due to it's misuse by radical sects.

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I'll paraphrase the views of a dear friend who was born and raised in South Carolina. She once told me that, in her opinion, the Confederate flag is a symbol of her heritage and not of hatred. But she would never fly the flag because she knows not everyone agrees with her and she wouldn't want to make anyone else feel uncomfortable. "It's just common courtesy," she says.

That is beautifully phrased.

Originally posted by adpiucf
Also ETA: That was one fugly dress. Joan Rivers would be spinning in her grave. If Joan Rivers was dead.

She is dead. Yet, inexplicably, she walks, like a tactless, undead fashion-nazi comprised of phony parts.