Why do blacks find The Rebel flag offensive???????
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Blacks find the Confederate Battle flag offensive because they are ignorant. Unfortunately, in this politically correct world, the ignorant are the only ones that are allowed to have freedom of speech. \nThe Flag does not stand for oppression actually the opposite. It stands for the hope of freedom from overtaxation and oppression from a dominate and abusive federal government. (The main reason why the War of Northern Oppression was fought. Most every one of the men that fought for the South were not slave holders.) \nKeep wearing the flag with pride my brother.
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Why is it when You People ask these Question's???\nYou Leave OFF the First People!!!  \nThe Native Americans!!!\nWhy Don't YOU!!!\nTalk about the Racism Done to US!!!\nFor US IT Will Never End!!!\nNot Until YOU Give Back What You Took With OUT Asking!!!\nOr Stole or Lie about!!  And Stop making US YOUR Mascots!!!\n\nHOKAHE!!!
1101346
I think you probably don't understand what you are talking about because you are 12. Many blacks just act the way the do to defend themselves not because they are trying to attack people. Think about it, blacks don't label whites as colored when they are in black countries especially in Africa, instead they are cherished and loved. But it is the opposite where blacks are staying in white communities.
759779
Thank you.\n\nAlso, they fail to realize how many blacks dislike that word.\n\nNotice how they focus on the thugs and gangsters?\n\nI suppose they think that all of us act that way too.......
1156274
The flag is the symbol of our COUNTRY ... not the successive governments ... consequently, if you desecrate the flag, you desecrate the country ... any American who desecrates the flag, spits on his country and on the people who spent their lives defending it ... well, if that's what they want to do, then that's what they want to do, in the name of "freedom of speech" .. personally, I think if anyone feels they have a need to express contempt for their country, all I can say is ... America is not for you ... get out of it ...
550305
there should not be any more issues about the confederate flag, it is a great design. I am black and fly the confederate flag from my truck, i have confederate bumper stickers, confederate belt buckle and ny cell phone cover is the confederate flag, big deal. I once wore a confederate soldiers hat at Miami airport, saw people looking at me a pretended to be oblivious to the fact, let bygones be bygones
1122309
What you write is totally asinine! Grow up and smell they coffee! Or better yet, get a viewpoint of your own instead of regurgitating your copy cat views!\n\nbet you own one of those Confederate Combat Flags!!
1150165
Cut the Bigotry Bullshit. It's called a Rebel Flag for one reason. It symbolizes REBELION. DO NOT mistake a hand-ful of assholes for a symbol that can be used any number of 1000 ways. The flag is not evil, merely a select few that misuse it.
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I think blacks(African Americans) feel comfortable in using the word,because they have adapted an separate meaning from the word's original intent, but get mad when other races use it because it was used as an insult to our race for so long! But to be honest, some black people are offended when they word is used so carelessly and freely by other blacks, because it was a word to express the ultimate disgust and disrespect for a race that whites did not even consider human...we were considered 3/5 of a person!!! So actually, NONE of us should use "their" (not their meaning white people, but their meaning RACIST people) term of disrespect for us as a term of "brotherhood"...but it happens.  I don't know why its so comfortable for it to just slip out of our mouths!!! But when I think about how painful it must have been for our ancestors to be disrespected in such a way, it always makes me think more conciously about what come out of my mouth and not use the word freely as a slang term.\n\nBTW...I like your question because you were not a smart azz in asking it!!! And its something that Black people definitely should think about!!!
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The upside down U.S. flag is an official signal of distress. It is not meant to be, and is not officially recognized as any type of disrespect when so displayed for the right reasons. To the contrary, here is the relevant part of the US Code of Laws regarding how to fly the flag when in distress: \n\nTHE FLAG CODE \nTitle 36, U.S.C., Chapter 10 \nAs amended by P.L. 344, 94th Congress\nApproved July 7, 1976\n\n§ 176. Respect for flag: No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor. \n(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property. \nMost individuals who have served in the military service of our nation will (or should) recognize this signal.\n\n As a result of the many traitors and enemies we as a free people have, both foreign and domestic, as a result of the many unconstitutional acts, legislation and atrocities passed and/or committed against US citizens and their life, liberty and property, and as a result of policies that have allowed (and continue to allow) enemies of this nation to enter in large numbers through a porous border policy, I believe the life, liberty and property of US Citizens are in dire danger and distress. \n\n\n\nhttp://www.jeffhead.com/liberty/flagdistress.htm
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Yeah, I saw that too, "can't fly a flag because it might offend a minority group."\n\nSnort.\n\nAnd they said the British never would be slaves.
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Because in actuality, blacks are the true racists.  They are the ones who are obviously disassociating themselves from whites by having their own groups.\n\nADD ON: It was NOT us who brought slavery to this country. \n        It was the AFRICANS themselves bringing them over,\n        and selling them as slaves to our ANSCESTORS, not \n        US!\nRead your history books!
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When it comes to issues like the war......some people really take offense on both sides, and there is occaisonal violence.\n\nRemember the civil rights struggle? People exercised their freedoms....and were attacked!\n\nThis is a free nation, and it's sad when there is a hazard while exercising freedom!
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To Ben/Sex : You need to get off of ur high horse! The kkk and the NAACP are in totally different capacities.The NAACP is not a hate group like the kkk. The NAACP never hurt or killed anyone. The kkk have burned down homes,burned crosses on people's properties and hung alot of Black abiding citizens. Blacks deserved same thing as whites. We are over dued! You are Ignorant!\n\nTo the questioner: People like Ben do not understand the true depths of slavery and these people like this think about themselves and not others! Whites do just tolerate and some go as far as not wanting us to come to their homes and churches in the year 2006.Slavery made be over literally for as chain and whips but whites are spiritually and mentally in bondage against blacks,asians,jews and hispanics! The kkk is still protesting to this day against equality. They used religion as a weapon to say that God sees other races as a abomination. They are sick people.What goes around comes around!
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Amen sista! It isn't just blacks anymore that Uncle Sam takes from. It's all of us and It's not fair!\n\nYou should be ashamed to call your a redneck Mydog! You give us rednecks a bad name with your racist bullsht! I'm a redneck but not racist, becuase being a redneck is about keeping the good country values like church and family and stuff! I even have black cousins, a mexican brother, and I'm a quarter Native American...You need to let it go man (Yes you! Just let it go man, it won't bother anymore if you just let it go.) I think its all the motes in your eyes that are making you blind to the truth. Do you think Jesus acted this way? Shame on you!
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Usually it is a distress signal, but foreigners living in the US do it to show how much they disrespect this country and spit on it. I have seen cars driven by turban-heads and spanish looking people with the flag hung upside down from their antenna, or with stickers of the flag upside down on their back window.  Of course, I am a "racist" for saying if they hate it here so much, they should go home.  \n\nI wonder what would happen if we went to their country and did that to their flag?  Or burned their flag on their soil?
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The flag is nothing but cloth and dye.  It is a symbol that's all.  Too many people make too big of a deal about it.  It has almost become idolatry.  It is like skin color.\n\nInstead of blindly defending or attacking symbols lets get to the heart of the issues; America has some "growing up" to do.      America can be better than it is toady, we have room to grow and mature.  We are not the BEST country in the world, but that is OK because we have the potential to be the best (or more concisely; we have room to be our best). But to do this we must choose better leadership, in fact we must all learn to be leaders, we must educate ourselves, we must get wise, etc.\n\nWe have been acting like idiots, but that's OK because we are young, but now that we know our mistakes we must stop repeating them.\n\nWe have so much potential.  I can't wait till these tough days come to an end and we finally live up to the pride we have in our flag.