Confederate flag as art? Great rant against racist bigots

[Hamlette]

(the display is not flattering to people who love the confederate flag)

"That display is extremely offensive. It's very tasteless," Hurst said. "What they've told us, as Southerners, as sons of the Confederacy, is that it's okay to offend us.

Yeah, pretty much. Just like it's ok to offend neo-Nazis or the KKK or any other group that is organized around either the hatred of other skin colors and/or the celebration of a massive act of treason and organized murder of fellow citizens that is still the bloodiest conflict in American history. The reason for seceeding from the United States was slavery; the documents of the Confederate states make this completely clear. The only concern of theirs for "states rights" was that they retained the right to own slaves. If another state passed a law freeing slaves or allowing escaped slaves sanctuary within its borders, the southern states quickly condemned it and called for federal laws that overturned them. If a territory organized as a free state, the southern states demanded that the federal government require the next territory to allow slavery.

When what is not Texas was still part of Mexico, American settlers were invited in to claim homesteads and work the land. In the early part of the 19th century, Mexico, using democratic processes, adopted a truly progressive constitution, one part of which outlawed slavery. These American settlers, guests of the Mexican government and recipients of very generous homesteading policies, immediately took up arms and rebelled against the legitimate, democratically elected government. That is the history behind the battle at the Alamo. That their act of sedition was ultimately successful was surely on the minds of the assorted traitors that gathered in the various southern states that initiated a bloody war against their fellow citizens.

The American Revolution was fought because of a complete lack of representation in England's political processes, not because the Colonies were unable to bend the rest of Britain to their wishes. That's the key difference between the two wars, and it shows why the USA as a whole has been able to mend its relationship England quite nicely and why the southern states are still stamping their feet and petulantly demanding that the rest of the country kowtow to their wishes.

http://immorallogic.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-new-favorite-photo.html

[BeliQueen]

1. Fantastic

If this is what it takes to start a debate about the illegitmacy of this symbol, then bring it on.

The Sons of the Confederacy are offended? Welcome to my everyday existence. I work in the Hall of the States, and every morning I have to walk pass the Georgia flag and the Oklahoma flag, and I'm offended.

I was on a cruise to Mexico out of Miami, and some woman was sporting that flag on the back of her T-shirt. Go to any amusement park in the country and count the number of times people are wearing this flag. It's disgusting.

The flag should be ridiculed, and everyone who wears it should feel ashamed.

[unpossibles]

2. awesome.

They don't seem to understand or care that the flag rightfully offends many people, do they?

I love it (the art, not the Confederate flag)!