What's the confederate flag really mean?

[Weapon X]

Whenever a complicated issue (i.e. The "Civil War") is reduced to soundbites (i.e. "it was about slavery"), it loses much. But Amerikans seem to prefer the issues simple and black & white, with "Good" guys and "bad" guys.

 

[_Outlaw]

Weapon X seems to be a man of reason,i like that.
On the other hand beware of RyanH hes an idiot and just runs off at the mouth.

 

[Blacksunshyne]

i don't guess most of you have heard the saying: "heritage not hate"? i'm from the south and damn proud of it. i think a lot of southerners get a bad rap from all the toothless, ingnorant people that supposedly represent everyone from the south. i however do have a college education as do many individuals from the south. so if anyone doesn't like southerners, YOU CAN SUCK MY FUCKING DICK!!!

THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN.

 

[Weapon X]

The Confederacy was actually amazingly successful and were unjustly put down, in direct violation of the Constitution, and have been unfairly demonized ever since.
In fact it is still politically correct to make fun of southerners as rednecks, ignorant, inbred, etc.
I'll tell you, I'm from the Bronx, and I knew enough idiots, racists (black and white), etc. to balance their compatriots in the South.
The Confederate battle flags stand today as a symbol of States' Rights, even to a born Yankee like me.

 

[fiatconspiracy]

The flag is a symbol of freedom from tyranny, it is not a symbol of slavery, That flag has got to be the most misunderstood piece of cloth

 

[RyanH]

Right---I'm sure the Confederate flag represents state rights----the right to enslave its citizens.

Silly argument.

 

[Wfabrizio]

Well, it represents to me Daisy Duke, Boss Hawg, Cleetus and the good ol' General Lee with those two fags in it jumping over shit. hehe

 

[Godzila]

the NAACP (negros against all caucasian people) can have all the flags taken down that they please, I will never take mine down and all you people that don't or have never lived in the South and are taking part in this discussion can KISS MY ASS!!! You don't know what the fuck it means to us southerners.

 

[Wfabrizio]

Yoo tellem Jimmy-Bob.....yooo tellem....yeeeehaw!!!!!! Yip yip yip yip yip yeeeehaw!!!!

 

[kitKat]

I have lived in the south all my life but, I hate to see these guys with the flag like Freak Daddy said on their truck window. You might as well add up the numbers on their license plates and you would come up with their IQ.