Doctor? wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:
No Holiday wrote:
Well, if memory serves me right, the flag was first put up during the Civil War between 1861-1865 representing the southern states that seceded from the rest of the U.S. in which black people were sold and treated as slaves. So to me, the Confederate Flag symbolizes racism, white power, and southern hicks.....What does the confederate flag symbolize to you? I know your name is Jeff. Is your last name Davis by any chance?
Jeffari's avatar is just the flag. I don't know if there is irony in that or what.....What would you think if I had a swastika as my avatar?
J
Are you aware that slavery existed under the Stars and Stripes?
Are you aware that there were states in the Union during the Civil War that practiced slavery?
By your definition, the Stars and Stripes symbolizes the same things you vilify my flag for.
What say you now?
And of course there were black folks fighting for the confederacy. And of course black kids still had to fight to get an education over 100 years after the war. And of course, (most)black people still cannot vote in Florida. And of course the US (now under the oh-so-free banner) when jews tried to escape Hitler, said????? "fuck off back there and burn, we've enough yids here aleady"[1]....nice, really classy that.
Yessss Suuuureeee, I shore ahm glad the north won that war and eliminated racism, hatred and inequality throughout the land.
[1]not to mention a few laws designed to keep Japanese and Chinese people out. Well unless they needed them to build a railway, before telling any of them that hadn't ended up in mass graves to fuck off back to China.
EDIT: I was just wondering after posting this, how long I would last with a swastika as my avatar, because before that vile monobollockular cunt got his hands on it (Hitler, not Bush)...it WAS actually an ancient Indian symbol, meaning peace or love or something. Always amuses the shit out of me, that in common with most braindead racists, the Nazi's relied on something made by people they believed were subhumans. It's a bit like seppos spouting hatred of muslims while happily using arabic numerals, or using a machine invented by an uphill gardener to spread poofophobia.
"And of course black kids still had to fight to get an education over 100 years after the war."
- This statement is completely false.
"And of course the US (now under the oh-so-free banner) when jews tried to escape Hitler, said????? "fuck off back there and burn, we've enough yids here aleady"[1]....nice, really classy that."
- We can all thank FDR for that.
"Yessss Suuuureeee, I shore ahm glad the north won that war and eliminated racism, hatred and inequality throughout the land."
- You're arguing that racism, hatred and inequality should have just disappeared after a long a bloody civil war? I know you're not that ignorant.
"not to mention a few laws designed to keep Japanese and Chinese people out. Well unless they needed them to build a railway, before telling any of them that hadn't ended up in mass graves to fuck off back to China."
- Funny, there seem to many folks around the country (but especially on the west coast) of Japanese and Chinese origin whose families have been here for several generations.
"And of course, (most)black people still cannot vote in Florida."
- Name one from, oh, I don't know, the last 5 presidential election cycles.
"It's a bit like seppos spouting hatred of muslims while happily using arabic numerals..."
-As Agent Wood would ( :D ) be quick to point out, being Arab and being muslim are not mutually exclusive.