Wow this Confederate flag thing all of a sudden is moving really fast. South Carolina takes down its flag. Retail corporations ban the manufacturing and sale of it. Even Warner Bros. now says the Dukes of Hazzard car, General Lee will not feature the flag anymore!
(General Lee is not the General Lee without the flag but i'll leave that argument for another day)
So in the words of Mr. Joker "What happened? Did your balls drop off?"
All these years of picking up your shotgun and standing on the soapbox yelling how its a symbol of southern pride and whatever. Pride in what? Pride in rebelling against your country and government and then fighting and killing your own countrymen?
I veer off of my point.
That point being why after all these years everyone suddenly has realized that you shouldn't be flying the flag that although it wasn't the official Confederate States flag, it did represent a division of the southern army during their attempt to fight their own government over an obviously uncivilized practice.
But lets take this further. Lets take this in the direction of who the fuck gives a shit about some fucking flag some southerners fly? This flag comes up as a part of the racism conversation but does a flag make you a racist? Does not flying it automatically mean you're not? Do you think that only white southerners that fly this flag are racist in this country?
And what about the idea that on the heels of so much controversy and injustice involving the African American community, the removal of this in fact insignificant flag is a completely empty victory in the battle against the true enemy...... racism.
People seem to be eating this shit up not realizing that its only a consolation prize. An appeasement. A peace pipe filled with all the good, sweet, apologetic bull shit you want to hear that will convince you to stop protesting, and arguing and fussing and fighting and so on.
You give a crying baby a pacifier to shut him up. This "rebel flag" is the pacifier to all of us who would see racism finally done away with.
Are we really so naive to think that a fucking flag is needed when some ignorant fool begins to teach his kids to hate any one in a darker skin tone than them?
So naive to think that the removal of this flag is going to stop or even curb racism in the south or any other part of this country?
Or even so naive to think that we've defeated this big symbol and supporter of oppression and racism? Flags don't support racism. Racism supports racism. Racist people support racism. And not all of them wave a fucking flag to tell you so.
We need to wake up folks. This flag is NOTHING. It means NOTHING. Thats why everyone is so quick to just give it up now. All we've done is actually create another symbol of hate. Symbols like the swastika flag or a white hood or a burning cross.
Remember that somethings are not truly evil until you label it as such. And now we have. Now the next ignorant, hateful asshole that needs some "symbol" of his pain and suffering and hate will have yet another ready to wear token. This flag is hated and so must be as evil as I am.
Nice job America.
You've been bitten,
Yeah I'm with you on this one. Having family in South Carolina and spending many hated summers there.....the removal of the flag means nothing in the grand scheme of things. But, this is the world we live in now where social media affects the ideals and practices of these corporations and businesses. I didn't care either way to be honest until I heard about the General Lee. You already KNOW! Cmon people! Now I get it....and what it stands for. I mean waving the flag doesn't automatically make you a racist, but its what it symbolizes. Just like waving a Nazi flag. Clearly its a symbol for a particular belief or lifestyle. But I agree, it doesn't stop those same people from being racist or committing racist acts because the flag doesn't wave in the wind.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Though as far as the flag itself it was not created specifically in support of segregation or slavery. It was the battle flag of Lee's army. Of course since people believe the Civil War was strictly about slavery, anyone and anything on the Confederate side is looked upon as supporting of slavery and racist. Like the "Dont tread on me" flag of the American revolutionist the rebel flag was also meant to be an inspiration to the troops. As long as you saw that flag up and you were breathing, you held your ground. It was after the war that is was misused and misinterpreted as some white power bullshit.
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