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NY couple asks black passerby to agree Confederate flags not racist and are gobsmacked when he wontThe reporter said his neighbors then tried to prove their point by asking a 13-year-old black boy playing nearby to validate their feelings.
Are you opposed to the flag at all? Barber asked the teen. Do you have a problem with the flag, as a black person?
The teens answer genuinely seemed to surprise the couple, according to the reporter.
Yeah, it is offensive to me, the teen said. This is the flag of people who want to bring slavery back.
The astonished couple asked the teen to meet with them sometime so they could explain what the flag meant to them, but he declined.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/ny-couple-asks-black-passerby-to-agree-confederate-flags-not-racist-and-are-gobsmacked-when-he-wont/
Ha Too funny.
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Who the fuck cares what it means to them?! It objectively is the battle flag
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2017
#1
Raw Story ALWAYS provides an obvious link to the original story, they don't "steal" work of others.
George II
Oct 2017
#24
Wait, you first said that this isnt important enough to be a news story, now you say
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#26
I didn't see that anyone said it constituted a new story, that's why it's in...
George II
Oct 2017
#20
I don't really find it funny. It was an act of racist aggression to a child meant to intimidate.
SweetieD
Oct 2017
#12
I feel for the flag owner, I do. He sincerely needs that black person or any black person to
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#31