The United States is for all citizens. The confederate flag was first flown during a time when certain people living and working in the south were not considered citizens. They were considered non-human. They were considered property. And Slavery was upheld as a God given Institution. The confederate flag is a symbol of racial division and hatred.
I have an idea. I will enslave you, create a flag that symbolizes my ownership of you, lose a war over it, and then push that symbol in your face on the State Capital, anyway, for decades later.
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States for South Carolina:
The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States [The right to own humans as property] For many years these laws were executed. [Enforcement of Slave laws].
But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution.
The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them.
In many of these States, the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution.
We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States.
Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions, and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies,
whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. [!!!]
They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes, and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
Go ahead and tell me the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. And on another note:
Wal-mart discontinues selling cheap pseudo-historical junk, and the partisan sycophants go insane with indignity, denouncing the grave injustice and infringement of freedom and liberty upon their precious, fragile lives.
These same people race to the defense of this same Corporation, however, if the issue raised is worker's rights, benefits, and wage increases (however small).
How truly noble and selfless of them. What daring courage in the face of ultimate evil they display--throwing a temper tantrum over a place to shop.
Furthermore, Wal-mart, a corporation is (a person) who has the freedom not to sell whatever they choose not to sell. They don't need your permission, do they? If you don't like it, feel free to set up your own shop and peddle all the garbage your heart desires.
Anthony
The United States is for all citizens. The confederate flag was flown during a time when certain people living and working in the south were not considered citizens. It is a symbol of racial division.
Colonel Angus Beef Stew
The American flag flew during the same time period.
Anthony
So what.
Colonel Angus Beef Stewburger
You tell me. It's your thread. Is the American flag a symbol of racial division as well or do you just pick and choose?
Anthony
The official flag of the US is a symbol for all citizens.
In case you don't understand, I will explain: the 13 red and white horizontal bars symbolize the original 13 colonies. The 50 white stars on a blue field symbolized the 50 states. Note: All 50 states--and the 13 colonies--from the very beginning of America to the present day--a symbol for everyone
Colonel Angus Beef Stewburger
That wasn't your thoughts in your original post. You implied that any flags that were flown during that era were symbols of racial division.
Anthony
No. I didn't write anything about any other flag. I specifically only wrote about the confederate flag.
"The United States is for all citizens. The confederate flag was flown during a time when certain people living and working in the south were not considered citizens. It is a symbol of racial division."
Where exactly do I talk about other flags in the original post?
My argument is that a flag is a symbol. In this case, of the United States. It is a symbol of a people, its citizens. What else is it? The confederate flag was first flown as a symbol of division. Black slaves were not considered even human, or citizens. Can you understand any of this?
