Do you also believe the confederate flag should be removed from any public place?

Question

I for one think it should be. We can study history without having that flag wave at a public place. The flag was all about slavery. The confederate flag-waving Republicans try to say it was about states' rights, but we all know that dog don't hunt. The American flag with 13 stripes and 50 stars is the flag that should be displayed in public places, not the flag of a group of confederates (same confederates who founded the Klu Klux Klan, don't believe me? Google it and see for yourself).

Answer 1

NOOOOO

Answer 2

Flying the confederate flag is the same as flying the nazi flag, union jack, or red china's flag. They're not the U.S. flag and shouldn't be hung in public financed places. Hanging any other flag, including the confederate flag, is the same as burning Old Glory. There is no difference, symbolically. Why do conservatives desecrate our flag?

Answer 3

It should not be hung in government facilities Other than that I don't care if people display it. It's a form of free speech. I don't agree with displaying the confederate flag but I support peoples' right to do it. I just ignore it when I see it. People in the South can't get over the fact that they got their tails kicked in the Civil War.

Answer 4

Absolutely!



I'm a Reagan Conservative, and I despise that rag for what it stood for...slavery, the suppression of states rights (yes), treason, domestic terrorism, civil war, and Jim Crow.



Jim Crow Democrats from the South, have hi-jacked and perverted conservative politics in this country, and turned the Republican Party into nothing more than a reactionary caricature of itself



James Carville was right (much as I hate to admit it)..."You never know what you're gonna get, when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park"...now us old line Conservatives know, and it's time to take out the white trash.



I'd rather be dead, than a dirty Reb!

Answer 5

Your lack of history knowledge is glaring. Did you intentionally neglect to mention that it was the democrats that owned slaves and populated the ranks of the KKK. It was the democrats who came up with all the black segregation laws. It was the democrats that ran around lynching black people.



It was the republicans who forced the end to slavery. It was the republicans who passed the civil rights bill (by a greater percentage than the democrats did - it was the democrats who were filibustering it).



Go do some googling and wikipedia-ing yourself and stop listening to the claptrap that those talking heads are filling you with.

Answer 6

The implications of the government removing the flag from all public forum would be that of moving towards a fascist government were little by little personal rights are stripped away. and nobody is friends with the NAZI.

Answer 7

So now slavery is not a real part of our history? Let it be a reminder of how far we've come and HOW FAR WE STILL NEED TO GO - there are too many groups in this country being denied their civil rights.... we must learn from the past.



Your one little fox-news soundbite logic doesn't even begin to cover history. I'm not saying it's inaccurate but it is far from complete.

Answer 8

It shouldn't be hung in any government run facilities. But if a business owner wants to hang it on their property, or a home owner wants to display the flag on his/her property in public view, that's their right.

Answer 9

Without that flag, what would Bo and Luke paint on The General Lee?

Answer 10

If we don't respect the First Amendment right to display a flag, why should we respect your right to whine about it ignorantly in public?



'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, referring to Voltaire' philosophy, "Friends of Volaire," 1906. (and more recently quoted by various civil rights advocates)

Answer 11

No. I am not racist, supremacist, etc. America's past is not Care Bears and Rainbows, but neither are we that live here. We should embrace our past and look at artifacts as a historical monument.

Answer 12

Why fly a dead flag?

Answer 13

Yes.



They are a stain of shame on America's underpants.

Answer 14

HaHa, does it make you just BOIL up inside seeing southern pride?

Answer 15

no.