Comments on: SCV on Allen: “You turned on us”

By: steve edmondson

steve edmondson — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:43:30 +0000

No matter what flag is used, the Black racist will demand it’s removal.
As you should know, all things Confederate are targets of the Black
hate groups; school names, bridges, statues,on and on. So you see,
they will not stop at the Southern Cross.I am not closed minded. I know some may be offended. So now the SCV is to change the logo
it has had since 1896? Are you willing to change anything in your life that offends someone? How about everything that offends? Do you
smoke,drink,have long hair,go to church,don’t go to church,vote
Democrat,drive a gas engine vehicle,tattoos,power lawn mower…?
If you answered yes to any of these then STOP IT. You’ve offended
someone. How about “Old Glory”? 89 years of slavery. There were
5 Union slave states during and after the war. Honst Abe freed the slaves in VA in Jan 1863. In june 1863 West VA was formed, joined
the Union….as a slave state! And you want to tell me the Yanks were
fighting to end slavery? Don’t forget about those pesky Indians that
the Great Emancipator had killed. Old men,women, and children.
Dead. This under Abe and the US flag, because they were in the way of the railroads. Anyone have a problem with the slavery and killing
of children under that flag? Or is it just the Rebel flag that bothers you. Well, I’m offended by that. You gonna stop it? toebo1@aol.com

By: vjp

vjp — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:05:32 +0000

skeptical – I am no expert on the Late Great Unpleasantness but there are those who believe differently from you. My main point is that if those who want to revere the Confederacy want us to believe it wasn’t about slavery, then they should choose a flag that hasn’t been co-opted by racist hate groups.

By: skepticalbrotha

skepticalbrotha — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:03:43 +0000

Waldo and Vivian,

There is no possible way to commerate and revere the confederacy without concomitantly honoring white supremacy. All of the flags created in that era are symbols of the confederacy. The confederacy was founded to forstall the possibility of freedom and self government for the enslaved and to elevate the slavemasters over them and their poorer white kith and kin.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:02:38 +0000

I simply cannot fathom how a person is incapable of seeing that the “confederate flag” COULD BE offensive to blacks. I’m just trying to grasp how closed that mind must be to be incapable of even understanding that possibility.

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:48:21 +0000

Good point about multiple flags. It never crossed my mind that any one of those flags could easily be substituted for the flag that’s caused so much trouble.