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CICERO
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Sometimes 'progress' is in baby steps, sometimes it's in leaps and bounds.


Yup.  That flag really caused hatred and racial tension.  South Carolina prior to 1960 showed much more tolerance toward African Americans.  That symbol caused people to hate.  Symbols do that you know.


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Yup.  That flag really caused hatred and racial tension.  South Carolina prior to 1960 showed much more tolerance toward African Americans.  That symbol caused people to hate.  Symbols do that you know.


Symbols are just that, Cicero... a SYMBOL.

SYMBOL:
noun
1. something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object
representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign... OR A FLAG.

The Confederate Flag is and has always been just a symbol... a symbol of Racism and White
Supremacy.  


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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The Confederate Flag is and has always been just a symbol... a symbol of Racism and White
Supremacy.  


The American Flag is the original flag of white supremacy, ask African Americans, and Native Americans what it represents.  In your warped collectivist mind, you truly believe that YOUR interpretation of a symbol is how EVERY person must interpret it.  Quite bigoted point of view coming from an open minded liberal.

I've never owned a confederate battle flag in my life, but I might just buy one now.  For a historical conversation piece.  


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The American Flag is the original flag of white supremacy, ask African Americans, and Native Americans what it represents.  In your warped collectivist mind, you truly believe that YOUR interpretation of a symbol is how EVERY person must interpret it.  Quite bigoted point of view coming from an open minded liberal.

I've never owned a confederate battle flag in my life, but I might just buy one now.  For a historical conversation piece.  


I went to the stock car races tonight and a guy came and sat in front of me with a fresh Confederate flag across his back.

I didn't see one person that was outraged.
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To the rest of the world the American flag is racist, but we don't care.

To them it stands for bombing Muslims and Arabs in their beds while they sleep by remote control.
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To the rest of the world the American flag is racist, but we don't care.


I am told it represents "exceptionalism" and "freedom".


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I went to the stock car races tonight and a guy came and sat in front of me with a fresh
American flag across his back.

I didn't see one person that was outraged.


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
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I am told it represents "exceptionalism" and "freedom".


Manifest destiny.

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion by was both justified and inevitable.

It has since grown a million times larger to take control of the entire world and outer space.
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I went to the stock car races tonight and a guy came and sat in front of me with a fresh
American flag across his back.

I didn't see one person that was outraged.


Wear an American flag into any Native American Casino.

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Wear an American flag into any Native American Casino.



Duhhhhh!

Wreaths Across America makes stop for holiday ceremony at Mohegan Sun


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Native American Indians in Cleveland




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"Tribes have their own individual flags
but Native Americans treat the US flag with great respect "




http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/amindian/amindian.htm


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The US flag was a symbol of black slavery for over 100 years.

Less guilty than the Confederate flag.
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"Boo Hoo Hoo...
It's so sad.
Our History Of Racism Is Coming To An End"
  

As the Racist Rag came down in South Carolina, most in the crowd cheered,
but  Brandy Burgess cried as she said:
“It hurts to watch it come down knowing that people think this is a good thing in history"

“It started coming down and I felt like part of my heart broke,” she said.

“And when it did, everyone that was chanting ‘USA’ and all that, it felt like they were slapping me in the face.
Me and my whole family.”




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