NAACP leaders will push Confederate flag opposition
July 15th, 2008 . by TexasFredOh, like say the drop out rate? The high birth rate to unmarried teens? Black on black crime? You know, ‘little’ things like that. No, the NAACP must focus it’s energy on a flag. Not just any ol’ flag, but the flag that was used during the “War of Northern Aggression”.
NAACP leaders will push Confederate flag oppositionNAACP leaders meeting in Cincinnati say they will step up their campaign against flying of the Confederate battle flag on state grounds in South Carolina.
Dennis Courtland Hayes, interim president and CEO, said Monday at the civil rights organization’s national convention that action plans are in the works and to stay tuned for details.
The NAACP and other critics call the rebel flag a symbol of slavery and racism. Its defenders call it an emblem of Southern pride and heritage.
A 2000 compromise removed the flag from the Capitol dome in South Carolina. It now flies on Statehouse grounds near the Confederate Soldier Monument.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has continued a boycott of the state.
As La Shawn Barber said:
Very useful! That’s what I’m talking about. Quite important stuff they’re doing. Life-changing ideas, indeed, sure to advance colored people. Keep up the good work.
The Confederate Battle Flag. The best-known Confederate flag, however, was the Battle Flag, the familiar “Southern Cross”. It was carried by Confederate troops in the field which were the vast majority of forces under the confederacy. The Stars represented the 11 states actually in the Confederacy plus Kentucky and Missouri.
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It’s mind boggling that people think the Civil War was about slavery.
Amazing isn’t it? The big NAACP will tackle that “disgusting” bit of history but it leaves out the crack babies, murdering, raping, robbing pieces of shit that represents a good piece of their HISTORY. Oh but it was a CIA plot to keep the bruddas down. Screw em, fight the flag battle asswipes and try to get that flag out of my house.
It is all about keeping the brainwashing of “victimhood” pounded into their heads day after day after day, so they can get their votes every two years.
Why don’t you know Fred? the existence of that flag is why the Blacks (or whatever they want to be called this week) can’t succeed in school, in the workplace, and why so many of them are violent criminals! or so depressed they cannot work and require public assistance to get by! that flag is the only thing keeping them from being successful, productive citizens.
Mark, why don’t I know?? Uh, because I didn’t write this one, I stole it and re-posted it…
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Oh, okay Fred, well, my comment was satire anyway… you know, that stuff that’s supposed to be funny, unless, of course, it involves the Obamessiah.
I’ve had my post in drafts all day…waiting for my anger to subside. As a native South Carolinian, I applaud Gov. Sanfords stance on refusing to negotiate the boycott. I am so beyond furious I can’t type straight…as they say about guns…from my cold, dead ,hands.
Jo, and they all said, AMEN!
What bugs me about those that oppose the “Stars and Bars” is usually the same group that tells us we shouldn’t be offended if they burn the Stars and Stripes and we should understand that only they have the right to free speech because they are aggrieved, but what do I know I’m just a hick.
Too bad they won’t tackle the real problems. But the real problem of the Black community is their leadership. And their worship of gangsters, drugs, and welfare.
The Confederate Battle Flag never flew over slavery. It never flew over a slave ship. The slave trade was completely controlled from the New England States. The Confederate Battle Flag is a soldier’s flag. It was created for use on the battle field. It was never a national flag of the Confederacy.
Anyone wishing to bitch and whine about a flag flying over slavery… point to the US Stars and Stripes… “Old Glory”. THERE is your flag of slavery.
I got the word out to all my SCV compatriots, yesterday, in my area of NC. Our National Convention (Reunion) starts today (Wednesday July 16th, 2008) in Concord NC. I expect someone will, uh, mention this.
As a native South Carolinian, like Jo, I am furious at this. SC did what the NAACP demanded by removing the flag from the dome of the capitol building. (A building, I might add, which still has cannon balls from Sherman’s rabble army stuck in it’s walls!) And within hours they attacked it again.
By the way, I am told that the boycott of SC by the NAACP has not hurt the SC economy one bit. In fact, I am told, tourist dollars spent in SC have increased, substantially, since the boycott was begun.
My ancestors fought, bled, and died beneath that flag. To insult that flag is to insult my family. I take it personally, because it IS personal.
God Save the South!
Deo Vindici!
Longstreet
My good and dear Longstreet, I am so very happy that you weighed in on this, I was hoping you would, I knew what your response would be too…
And Sir, as I said before, it is men of honor, men such as yourself, that have held true with OUR history, you Sir, are to be commended..
How could a NAACP boycott hurt anybody? A boycott by that racist bunch would be a plus or any state.
BobF, quite right… It keeps most, I say *most* of the trash out…
Now if they’d take ALL the trash, white trash too, and just leave, we’d ALL be better off…
Yep, as Walter Williams calls em’ “The Klan with a Tan”….still fighting for meaningless stuff, while important issues(80% out of wedlock birth), sky high violent crime rates etc) are destroying the average Black American.