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Video: Giant Confederate Flag on I-95 to be Raised Saturday (Original Post)
lowkell
Sep 2013
OP
I did. In GA we hear/heard the same 'heritage' blahblah when the flag got changed here.
CurtEastPoint
Sep 2013
#4
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)1. Why?....n/t
cprise
(8,445 posts)2. It has more down-home appeal than a swastika. n/t
lowkell
(671 posts)3. Did you watch the video?
Basically, these folks (the "Virginia Flaggers" want people to "honor and remember our Confederate heritage." Of course, the "heritage" is slavery and genocide, as Charlie Diradour of a group opposing the "Flaggers" explains.
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)4. I did. In GA we hear/heard the same 'heritage' blahblah when the flag got changed here.
rurallib
(62,424 posts)6. Also the heritage of treason and rebellion
and hate and slavery and genocide.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)8. Heritage of hatred and racism.
This bigot used to run for public office when I was a kid, claiming he wasn't a racist right up until he was imprisoned for bombing a church in Birmingham.
enki23
(7,789 posts)5. Are they trying to declare war to protect slavery again?
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obxhead
(8,434 posts)7. The only good confederate flag
is one that is on fire and turning to ash.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)9. Burn It!