You are proud of a racist symbol of traitors who lost?
Does your car have a bumper sticker that says "Proud parent of an 8th grade classmate"?
As a resident of Georgia, Thompson supported the Confederacy and its cause during the American Civil War. In 1863, as the editor of the Savannah Morning News he proposed a design that would ultimately become the Confederacy's second national flag, which would be come to known as the "Stainless Banner.
In a series of editorials, Thompson argued:
As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; … Such a flag…would soon take rank among the proudest ensigns of the nations, and be hailed by the civilized world as THE WHITE MAN'S FLAG.… As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism.After the American Civil War ended and slavery was abolished in the U.S., Thompson, as a fervent supporter of the Democrats, opposed the Republican Party's efforts in southern U.S. states, as well as opposing the granting of civil rights to African Americans and freed slaves.
Just a good old southern boy...damn those pesky libraries and their archives.
Rally 'round the flag men...thar's jews and katolics and mimigrants to take care of...
Leave it to progressive liberals to tell what must offend us. The Dukes of Hazard was first shown some 40 years ago and now all the sudden that program is so offensive that in 2015 we can't even show reruns because of the Confederate Battle Flag.
Ku Klux Klan supporters and Confederate flag opponents Link Removed in front of the South Carolina Statehouse on Saturday after members of the KKK held a rally protesting the July 10 removal of the Confederate flag.
On Saturday, about 50 members of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan gathered outside the capital, according to the Link Removed. Accompanied by other sympathizers including the Detroit-based neo-Nazi Socialist Movement, they “waved Confederate flags, banners with swastikas and shouted ‘white power,’ hurling racist comments at angry counter-protesters who shouted back.”
You have to be part of the kkk or neo nazis to support the confederate flag?
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Nope. You can just be a bigot who supports the principles it stood for: maintaining slavery and white supremacy. No requirement to be a Nazi or member of the KKK.
Nope. You can just be a bigot who supports the principles it stood for: maintaining slavery and white supremacy. No requirement to be a Nazi or member of the KKK.
How is a battle flag associated with slavery, Nazism or the KKK in any way by anyone other than the people who misappropriate it for their own hateful purposes? I mean, you do realize, don't you, that the CBF was not the flag of the Confederacy? That would be one of the several flags made prior to the battle flag's adoption, from the original Stars and Bars (that is sometimes erroneously used when referencing the battle flag), to the Stainless Banner (which was so much white that it was often mistaken for a truce, surrender or parlay signal flag), to the Blood-dipped Banner, to variations of the original State Flag of South Carolina and of what would become the State Flag of Texas.
The Confederate Battle Flag was never the flag of the Confederacy, and was used in the form that flew over the monument at the SC Capitol Grounds until last week as nothing more or less than a signal flag to tell soldiers which way they were supposed to go on the battlefield during the War of Northern Aggression. Flying over a war monument in tribute to fallen soldiers is no more racist than the Stars and Stripes flying over the graves at Arlington or Congress or the Rainbow House fer cryin' out loud!
Of the five or six official Confederate Flags used, two of them incorporated a variation of the CBF within them. One was the Stainless Banner that was mistaken for a flag of truce/surrender, so obviously the CBF part of that flag was unnoticeable and insignificant. The other flag that incorporated a variation of the CBF within it was a naval ensign flag modified only by adding a red bar to the field of white to replace the Stainless Banner and avoid confusion by either sides' forces concerning truce or surrender. So few of those were ever even manufactured that soldiers coming home after the war didn't even recognize it as one of theirs, and recognized the Bonnie Blue Flag as the final Flag of the Confederacy, even though it never was officially designated as such.
The CBF was used just exactly like the Stars and Stripes and Gadsden Flags were used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, a war that birthed the nation under the abomination of slavery, and under which the nation rallies to this day, but you don't care about that do you? Reliance on truth comes somewhere way down your list of moral imperatives behind your need to slander a whole region of the country whose ancestors are recognized as veterans by several Acts of Congress every bit as much as the Blue-Bellies who conquered them.
Just curious, but do you see the Founders of this country as traitors too, or is this just the shallow, intellectually-dishonest rantings of someone who supports the victory of the Union in the War of Northern Aggression, but who believes the British weren't entitled to the same victory over traitors? Or maybe you believe they were entitled and believe that the US of A is every bit as illegitimate as the CSA was?
Whatever, your revisionist history doesn't fly any better now than it did three weeks ago. Quit slandering ~1/4th of the country over issues that the government that paid you for long enough to earn a retirement from formed under the same abomination less than a century before the Confederacy attempted the same kind of separation, both of which legitimized slavery in their founding documents. Your selective outrage belies your utter hypocrisy.
Your bigotry against the South and Southerners says a heckuva lot more about you than The Confederate Battle Flag says about us.
Blues
How is a battle flag associated with slavery, Nazism or the KKK in any way by anyone other than the people who misappropriate it for their own hateful purposes? I mean, you do realize, don't you, that the CBF was not the flag of the Confederacy? That would be one of the several flags made prior to the battle flag's adoption, from the original Stars and Bars (that is sometimes erroneously used when referencing the battle flag), to the Stainless Banner (which was so much white that it was often mistaken for a truce, surrender or parlay signal flag), to the Blood-dipped Banner, to variations of the original State Flag of South Carolina and of what would become the State Flag of Texas.
The Confederate Battle Flag was never the flag of the Confederacy, and was used in the form that flew over the monument at the SC Capitol Grounds until last week as nothing more or less than a signal flag to tell soldiers which way they were supposed to go on the battlefield during the War of Northern Aggression. Flying over a war monument in tribute to fallen soldiers is no more racist than the Stars and Stripes flying over the graves at Arlington or Congress or the Rainbow House fer cryin' out loud!
Of the five or six official Confederate Flags used, two of them incorporated a variation of the CBF within them. One was the Stainless Banner that was mistaken for a flag of truce/surrender, so obviously the CBF part of that flag was unnoticeable and insignificant. The other flag that incorporated a variation of the CBF within it was a naval ensign flag modified only by adding a red bar to the field of white to replace the Stainless Banner and avoid confusion by either sides' forces concerning truce or surrender. So few of those were ever even manufactured that soldiers coming home after the war didn't even recognize it as one of theirs, and recognized the Bonnie Blue Flag as the final Flag of the Confederacy, even though it never was officially designated as such.
The CBF was used just exactly like the Stars and Stripes and Gadsden Flags were used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, a war that birthed the nation under the abomination of slavery, and under which the nation rallies to this day, but you don't care about that do you? Reliance on truth comes somewhere way down your list of moral imperatives behind your need to slander a whole region of the country whose ancestors are recognized as veterans by several Acts of Congress every bit as much as the Blue-Bellies who conquered them.
Just curious, but do you see the Founders of this country as traitors too, or is this just the shallow, intellectually-dishonest rantings of someone who supports the victory of the Union in the War of Northern Aggression, but who believes the British weren't entitled to the same victory over traitors? Or maybe you believe they were entitled and believe that the US of A is every bit as illegitimate as the CSA was?
Whatever, your revisionist history doesn't fly any better now than it did three weeks ago. Quit slandering ~1/4th of the country over issues that the government that paid you for long enough to earn a retirement from formed under the same abomination less than a century before the Confederacy attempted the same kind of separation, both of which legitimized slavery in their founding documents. Your selective outrage belies your utter hypocrisy.
Your bigotry against the South and Southerners says a heckuva lot more about you than The Confederate Battle Flag says about us.
Blues
How is a battle flag associated with slavery, Nazism or the KKK in any way by anyone other than the people who misappropriate it for their own hateful purposes? I mean, you do realize, don't you, that the CBF was not the flag of the Confederacy? That would be one of the several flags made prior to the battle flag's adoption, from the original Stars and Bars (that is sometimes erroneously used when referencing the battle flag), to the Stainless Banner (which was so much white that it was often mistaken for a truce, surrender or parlay signal flag), to the Blood-dipped Banner, to variations of the original State Flag of South Carolina and of what would become the State Flag of Texas.
The Confederate Battle Flag was never the flag of the Confederacy, and was used in the form that flew over the monument at the SC Capitol Grounds until last week as nothing more or less than a signal flag to tell soldiers which way they were supposed to go on the battlefield during the War of Northern Aggression. Flying over a war monument in tribute to fallen soldiers is no more racist than the Stars and Stripes flying over the graves at Arlington or Congress or the Rainbow House fer cryin' out loud!
Of the five or six official Confederate Flags used, two of them incorporated a variation of the CBF within them. One was the Stainless Banner that was mistaken for a flag of truce/surrender, so obviously the CBF part of that flag was unnoticeable and insignificant. The other flag that incorporated a variation of the CBF within it was a naval ensign flag modified only by adding a red bar to the field of white to replace the Stainless Banner and avoid confusion by either sides' forces concerning truce or surrender. So few of those were ever even manufactured that soldiers coming home after the war didn't even recognize it as one of theirs, and recognized the Bonnie Blue Flag as the final Flag of the Confederacy, even though it never was officially designated as such.
The CBF was used just exactly like the Stars and Stripes and Gadsden Flags were used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, a war that birthed the nation under the abomination of slavery, and under which the nation rallies to this day, but you don't care about that do you? Reliance on truth comes somewhere way down your list of moral imperatives behind your need to slander a whole region of the country whose ancestors are recognized as veterans by several Acts of Congress every bit as much as the Blue-Bellies who conquered them.
Just curious, but do you see the Founders of this country as traitors too, or is this just the shallow, intellectually-dishonest rantings of someone who supports the victory of the Union in the War of Northern Aggression, but who believes the British weren't entitled to the same victory over traitors? Or maybe you believe they were entitled and believe that the US of A is every bit as illegitimate as the CSA was?
Whatever, your revisionist history doesn't fly any better now than it did three weeks ago. Quit slandering ~1/4th of the country over issues that the government that paid you for long enough to earn a retirement from formed under the same abomination less than a century before the Confederacy attempted the same kind of separation, both of which legitimized slavery in their founding documents. Your selective outrage belies your utter hypocrisy.
Your bigotry against the South and Southerners says a heckuva lot more about you than The Confederate Battle Flag says about us.
Blues
How is a battle flag associated with slavery, Nazism or the KKK in any way by anyone other than the people who misappropriate it for their own hateful purposes? I mean, you do realize, don't you, that the CBF was not the flag of the Confederacy? That would be one of the several flags made prior to the battle flag's adoption, from the original Stars and Bars (that is sometimes erroneously used when referencing the battle flag), to the Stainless Banner (which was so much white that it was often mistaken for a truce, surrender or parlay signal flag), to the Blood-dipped Banner, to variations of the original State Flag of South Carolina and of what would become the State Flag of Texas.
The Confederate Battle Flag was never the flag of the Confederacy, and was used in the form that flew over the monument at the SC Capitol Grounds until last week as nothing more or less than a signal flag to tell soldiers which way they were supposed to go on the battlefield during the War of Northern Aggression. Flying over a war monument in tribute to fallen soldiers is no more racist than the Stars and Stripes flying over the graves at Arlington or Congress or the Rainbow House fer cryin' out loud!
Of the five or six official Confederate Flags used, two of them incorporated a variation of the CBF within them. One was the Stainless Banner that was mistaken for a flag of truce/surrender, so obviously the CBF part of that flag was unnoticeable and insignificant. The other flag that incorporated a variation of the CBF within it was a naval ensign flag modified only by adding a red bar to the field of white to replace the Stainless Banner and avoid confusion by either sides' forces concerning truce or surrender. So few of those were ever even manufactured that soldiers coming home after the war didn't even recognize it as one of theirs, and recognized the Bonnie Blue Flag as the final Flag of the Confederacy, even though it never was officially designated as such.
The CBF was used just exactly like the Stars and Stripes and Gadsden Flags were used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, a war that birthed the nation under the abomination of slavery, and under which the nation rallies to this day, but you don't care about that do you? Reliance on truth comes somewhere way down your list of moral imperatives behind your need to slander a whole region of the country whose ancestors are recognized as veterans by several Acts of Congress every bit as much as the Blue-Bellies who conquered them.
Just curious, but do you see the Founders of this country as traitors too, or is this just the shallow, intellectually-dishonest rantings of someone who supports the victory of the Union in the War of Northern Aggression, but who believes the British weren't entitled to the same victory over traitors? Or maybe you believe they were entitled and believe that the US of A is every bit as illegitimate as the CSA was?
Whatever, your revisionist history doesn't fly any better now than it did three weeks ago. Quit slandering ~1/4th of the country over issues that the government that paid you for long enough to earn a retirement from formed under the same abomination less than a century before the Confederacy attempted the same kind of separation, both of which legitimized slavery in their founding documents. Your selective outrage belies your utter hypocrisy.
Your bigotry against the South and Southerners says a heckuva lot more about you than The Confederate Battle Flag says about us.
Blues
Right...because they carried that battle flag as they fought for the reasons declared by their leaders...let's see...what were those reasons again?...An end to slavery? Equality under the law for all despite skin color? the right of blacks to vote?
Those who carried the battle flag of the traitors whose declared purpose was to preserve slavery were bigots then and those who waive that flag of slavery are bigots now.
You can try to run from history but it'll always catch up to you.
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