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are used as political posturing by both black and white politicians and power brokers. It's boils down to nothing more than playing the race card in a blatant attempt at keeping white and black voting blocks exactly that, seperate. The sad part is these machinations are not designed to bring people together, but to use age old history to keep them apart. These Confederate flags are a part of the South's history, and people of all colors should feel proud when they see the flag in it proper place knowing how much the South has changed.

IMHO, Racism and segregation of today is much more apparent in large metropolitan areas, than it is in the rural South. If Hillary is so intent on healing percieved rifts, I suggest she start her campaign from her husband's office in Harlem.

Because Hillary, we've come a long way baby and we don't need any carpetbaggers trying to drag us back into the past.

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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

From my ggggrandfather's participation in the much maligned SC militia after the fall of Charleston in 1780 (Hey, they helped slow Cornwallis down a bit) to several hard scrabble SC back country farmers(Old 96 district, Newberry etc.) that fought and died for the Confederate cause. The blue staters need to understand that there are literally hundreds of thousands of descendents of these farmer soldiers who see the Confederate flag as a bridge to their ancestors, the majority of whom (like my own) never owned a slave but fought for home and hearth.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us - Voltaire

alive and flourishing on a global level. The absolutely best analysis of the phenomena is from a Somali lady, Aayan Hirsi Ali.

"She also argues that it's important to address white liberals because they need to overcome the self-censoring effects of post-colonial guilt. 'If you want to feel guilty,' snaps Hirsi Ali, 'feel guilty that you didn't bring John Stuart Mill and left us only with the Koran. It doesn't help to say my forefathers oppressed your forefathers, and remain guilty forever.''Some people will accept that Islam is backward but they're not going to say that because Muslims will be offended. "We want them to become liberals, so we're just going to trick them into a secular humanistic way of thinking."' At this she lets out a giggle, as if tickled by the absurdity of the idea. 'But people are aware of what's going on. That's why many Muslims are suspicious of liberals. Because they know they are not being taken seriously.'"

I picked this little nugget from her site:
http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/ayaanhirsiali/english/index.html

You’re a persistent cuss, pilgrim.
John Wayne to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

God will make it right. That is an at least reasonable tranlation of the Confederacy's national motto, God Willing or God Granting it also work.

I earned the ire of my Sons of Confederate Veterans comrades by being an advocate of removing the St. Andrews Cross Flag, the Battle Flag, from all political symbols. The Battle Flag was never a political symbol and was only unfurled and flown over a regiment in battle. First, it was co-opted by the scalawag and carpetbagger governments and then by the Klan, neither of which has a claim to it. Perhaps N.B. Forrest's original Klan had a claim to it, but that organization was disbanded when it achieved its objective of the removal of occupying US Troops. The later incarnations were simply racist tools of the ruling class to keep the poor whites poor and the poor Blacks poorer. It worked for a hundred years.

Given my way, I'd copyright the Battle Flag and restrict its use to the SCV, UDC, and other legitimate heritage organizations who honor the memories of the soldiers. I simply detest the slack-jawed punks wearing it on their tee shirts and flying it from their trucks and the like. If you can't rattle off the company, brigade, regiment, division, and army of all your WBTS ancestors, that flag doesn't have much to do with you or your heritage.

To the larger point, it is just another cash cow for the Poverty Pimps and their white liberal running dogs; I don't know why we give them the fight they want. I do however appreciate both the ignorance and irony exhibited in so many of the flag fights, especially Georgia's. I am old enough and my family was political enough to know exactly why Georgia adopted the '56 flag incorporating the Battle Flag - and it wan't to revere my ancestors. The Lefty fools and Poverty Pimps were so ignorant of history that in their zeal to remove the offending Battle Flag, never a Confederate political symbol, they insisted on a return to the pre-'56 flag, a true Confederate Stars and Bars with the Georgia Seal in the canton. Even the new, presumably politically correct flag is simply a first national but with the stars in gold and the Seal placed within them. So, in their ignorance, they have placed the political symbol of the CSA over the public buildings. At least stupid people give the rest of us something to talk about.

Anyway, just returned from two weeks of Southern immersion, interupted by a few days in Florida for the Daytona 500. Ate grits at Waffle Houses and Huddle Houses every morning I was in Georgia - can't get good grits here. Spent some time with my sister and visited the grave of Pvt. Amos Riner, Co. F, 48th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, my g/grandfather - he's the only one whose burial place I know. Seriously considering building myself a house/fortress on some old family property I still have down there and being an old retired guy living a peaceful life with my books and my garden. But then I've been a political junkie for so long, the first time the "Big Men" tried to do something I didn't like, I'd probably ride to the sound of the guns, and there'd go my peaceful life. Still thinking ...

In Vino Veritas