Confederate Flag

I think maybe her purpose was to recall history in some form. No idea but definitely inflammatory.

Not appropriate maddam.

Its likely a smartass put it on her car as a joke knowing shes old as and as she was driving away him and his friends were laughing hysterically. Its been there ever since. Shes old and cant see properly.

Unless she doesnt know shes black, she has no idea. That flag is despicable and pathetic. You couldnt possibly think she supports it. Mississippi was the last state to fly it.

Its amazing it didnt get band earlier.

Oh, and save it hilbillies you're worse than feminist lesbos.

Contrary to popular beliefs, there were many blacks that own slaves themselves. Maybe her family at one time was a part of the "privileged" class?

Just saying.

Many ????? really ???

 What's despicable and pathetic is that losers such as Nazis and the KKK have highjacked a noble symbol and tried to make it their own.

 I am a proud Southerner and I choose to display the "Bonnie Blue" or the original Confederate flag as opposed to the "battle flag" so as to not be ignorantly identified as a racist.

 And for the narrow minded individuals that don't know any better,there were thousands of blacks that willingly and proudly fought to protect the Confederate flag.Here are a few examples;

Black Confederate heritage is beginning to receive the attention it deserves. For instance, Terri Williams, a black journalist for the Suffolk “Virginia Pilot” newspaper, writes: “I’ve had to re-examine my feelings toward the [Confederate] flag…It started when I read a newspaper article about an elderly black man whose ancestor worked with the Confederate forces. The man spoke with pride about his family member’s contribution to the cause, was photographed with the [Confederate] flag draped over his lap…that’s why I now have no definite stand on just what the flag symbolizes, because it no longer is their history, or my history, but our history.”

Nearly 180,000 Black Southerners, from Virginia alone, provided logistical support for the Confederate military. Many were highly skilled workers. These included a wide range of jobs: nurses, military engineers, teamsters, ordnance department workers, brakemen, firemen, harness makers, blacksmiths, wagonmakers, boatmen, mechanics, wheelwrights, ect.

One black  C. S. Navy seaman was among the last Confederates to surrender, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, six months after the war ended. At least two blacks served as Navy pilots with the rank of Warrant Officer. One, William Bugg, piloted the CSS Sampson, and another, Moses Dallas, was considered the best inland pilot of the C.S. Navy. Dallas piloted the Savannah River squadron and was paid $100 a month until the time he was killed by the enemy during the capture of USS Water Witch.

The first military monument in the US Capitol that honors an African-American soldier is the Confederate monument at Arlington National cemetery. The monument was designed 1914 by Moses Ezekiel, a Jewish Confederate. Who wanted to correctly portray the “racial makeup” in the Confederate Army. A black Confederate soldier is depicted marching in step with white Confederate soldiers. Also shown is one “white soldier giving his child to a black woman for protection"- source: Edward Smith, African American professor at the American University, Washington DC

Shooting American Indians for no reason is also part of our "history". That doesnt mean I want to embrace it or be proud of some of the decisions "we" have made in the past.

Bottom line the Confederate flag sucks.

so the American flag sucks as well by your reasoning, correct??

NO, incorrect.

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Think about it.

Google it. Had I been wrong, scalabrine would've been on the scene already, don't you think? Owning slaves was an investment then in the form of labor for profit. Sure compare to their white counterpart, they were disproportionately few, but still it existed.

Lay off the southern way of life. All cultures and traditions have flaws and not all southern folks owned slaves nor ever endorsed it.

Fwiw this northerner has served with a great deal of southerners from all walks of life in the military and found them to be very humble and a proud bunch.

And yes, blacks fought and died for the south in the Civil War too as jmw pointed out.

"After all, the flag was associated with the Confederacy. So there’s a sense in which it can legitimately stand for southern pride. But it was also used as the battle flag for a particular war, one which was fought over the right to have slaves (whether it was really a fight over ‘states’ rights’ seems a side point to me, given that it was over the states’ rights to have slaves in this case). So this can’t be left out of the context, whether one likes it or not. As a result, it’s hard to believe that the flag doesn’t carry — as a symbol — racist overtones."

logical thinking.

While not as bad as a swazi its pretty shitty.

  The original 13 star U.S. flag was the symbol of a nation that supported slavery, fighting against British forces that promised to free enslaved blacks in America.So why is that flag not viewed as racist?

 My guess is that anything that you don't understand sucks,so the Confederate flag is probably just one of thousands of things that suck to you.