Dylann Roof's flag to come down in SC

[Drama Queen]

You can't out-clap and giggle me! Why you! I ought da!

I'm actually with you, fuck all the flags. If they cause consternation then they're not doing their job!

[Irish George]

THEY LOST THE WAR

What they are calling the "confederate flag" isn't even the confederate flag - it's a state battle flag.

it was about slavery. Fuck their battle flag.

[TerpEagle]

Here you go.

But let's not just pick on S. Carolina. Their official state flag does not contain confederate flag elements, but other state flags have overt confederate flag components: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennesee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nd-here-is-why

[Irish George]

They LOST the war

why they are so proud of that thing baffles me.

[CbEagle]

Yeah like the nazis, dope!

[slag]

Fuck ... it took THIS long for Godwin's Law to surface in this thread?

[Drama Queen]

Also Riccardo, you can't have it both ways (but you probably like that).

The Confederate battle flag, as you know, is the flag of the Northern Virginia Army. Since the end of the Civil War, the flag was occasionally used at Confederate memorial services. That's it. It gained popularity during the Civil rights movement in the 1960's and incorporated into some state flags during that time.

The flags of Alabama and Florida with the St. Andrews Cross were introduced before 1900. It's a far stretch of your liberal imagination to make an association that gained popularity sixty years later.

This is just the watered down information on the battle flags surge in popularity in the 1960's.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/con...g-myths-facts/

[JuTMSY4]

Fuck ... it took THIS long for Godwin's Law to surface in this thread?

an impressive feat

[FuriousXGeorge]

Also Riccardo, you can't have it both ways (but you probably like that).

The Confederate battle flag, as you know, is the flag of the Northern Virginia Army. Since the end of the Civil War, the flag was occasionally used at Confederate memorial services. That's it. It gained popularity during the Civil rights movement in the 1960's and incorporated into some state flags during that time.

The flags of Alabama and Florida with the St. Andrews Cross were introduced before 1900. It's a far stretch of your liberal imagination to make an association that gained popularity sixty years later.

This is just the watered down information on the battle flags surge in popularity in the 1960's.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/con...g-myths-facts/

It was just a random upswing in appreciation for Southern heritage! Definitively, definitely, definitely not a reactionary move to try and put the black people standing up for their rights back in their place.