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In reply to the discussion: NY couple asks black passerby to agree Confederate flags not racist [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,815 posts)16. You know . . .
I lived in the Rochester NY area for 30 years prior to moving to New Jersey and this . . .
Zach Hirsch, a reporter with North Country Public Radio, didn't have to go far to find a Confederate flag owner: his neighbor in Plattsburgh displayed one for a period earlier this year.
The neighbor, Ricky Barber, 30, moved to New York from Georgia, and said the flag is a sign of his Southern pride, as well as a form of defiance.
"You'll hear all these people that gathered down South that are blacks. What about their Black Lives Matter flags?" asked Barber.
"That's pushing back on the white people. Us white people, we retaliate by 'Hey, we got a Confederate flag and whatnot.'"
The neighbor, Ricky Barber, 30, moved to New York from Georgia, and said the flag is a sign of his Southern pride, as well as a form of defiance.
"You'll hear all these people that gathered down South that are blacks. What about their Black Lives Matter flags?" asked Barber.
"That's pushing back on the white people. Us white people, we retaliate by 'Hey, we got a Confederate flag and whatnot.'"
Then why doesn't he take his ass back to fucking Georgia if he isn't going to assimilate?
With his 'whatnot' take his thingamajiggy and shove it up his whatchamacallit.
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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