If you got all your news from the usual mainstream sources, you might think that America already decided – to a person – that the Confederate flag was a symbol of racism and hatred that must be removed from every place it hangs. Following the shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina in June, our mission was clear: We had to hide each and every symbol of the Confederacy, and the sooner the better.
Well, not so fast.
As it turns out, there are still vast swaths of Americans who don’t believe there is anything wrong with the Rebel flag. Among them is Pam Dotson, the principal of Hurley High School in Buchanan County, Virginia. “Our community it standing by it,” said Dotson in an interview with the Washington Post. “It means heritage, not hate. You won’t find a single person in Hurley who thinks different.”
That may be a statement of fact, because if news organizations could find such a person, they would have been quick to put them on the front page. Alas, they were only able to find residents who agreed wholeheartedly with Dotson. “It doesn’t mean racism to me,” said Chris Spencer, Hurley’s sole black student. “I just look at it as a flag. It’s our mascot. It just means our school.”
Your mascot?
Yes, indeed. This isn’t just about a flag flying on the Hurley grounds; the students themselves are known as the Rebels, and the Confederate flag is their official symbol. It is painted on the double doors leading into the school’s front hallway. Spencer is right: it really is their mascot.
“It has nothing to do with hatred or anything else they want to say,” a Hurley resident told USA Today. “We’re one big family here.”
The story of Hurley High is the story of millions of Americans who have been ignored and mocked by the elitists in the media. The silent majority, as Donald Trump calls his pool of supporters. And it’s true. Polls show that the majority of Americans feel just as these Virginians do about the Confederate flag. Just as they feel “Black Lives Matter” has been blown out of proportion. Just as they feel that Barack Obama is one of the worst presidents of modern times. But – outside of Fox News – when do you ever hear any of this on television? If you listen to the Big 3 networks, the only people standing up for the Confederate flag are card-carrying Klansmen.
It makes you wonder what this country would be like if we all threw our televisions out the window. And maybe our modems along with them. Fat chance, sure, but it would probably do a hell of a lot more to improve America than systematically removing every Confederate flag in sight. Actually, scratch the probably.
absolutely correct about the flag not being racist. Only about 4.5 % of southern people owned slaves and some of those where blacks…The North had more slaves owned than the south by a large percentage. The Civil War was all about states rights and anyone that thinks different just doesn’t know history..FACT!!
Absolutely correct about the flag not being racist. Only about 4.5 % of southern people owned slaves and some of those where blacks…The North had more slaves owned than the south by a large percentage. The Civil War was all about states rights and anyone that thinks different just doesn’t know history..FACT!!
PC is nothing less than government mind control.
No, this present administrations mind control!
It did NOT start with queen skippy. It just escalated.
Good one!!
Being PC is not the solution to our problems, it’s the cause of many of them. The government wants to control every aspect of our lives, and has gotten so corrupt it’s not even funny.
PC is actually right out of Mao’s little Red book.
“Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.”
The slaves were actually brought into the US via Boston Harbor and NY Harbors. sounds like my statement was correct. The progressives have tried and succeeded with their PC drone heads and college students that don’t even have real History taught in school anymore.
Yes… and they were rounded up & sold by other Black people to make money. Most people forget that little tidbit.
Many of the southern plantations were owned by blacks who owned their share of slaves too.
it doesn’t fit their racist narrative is exactly why!
You are right, Black sold other blacks in Africa and sent here as slaves.and it is not taught in schools, because Blacks can’t say they are victims. It’s part of history.
Don,t Forget the Confederate Flag was not the Flag that was Flown by the Slave ships that Flag was the British Flag also the Confederate Flag Did not Exist until the 1800,s People Please Read your old History books Before it was Corrupted by the late 1900,s and updated by the No Child left Behind and the rest of the Federal Government led Education System that teaches you cant call Children they must be called Purple Ping wins and that 2plus 2 =5 .this is B S.
Why are the school’s history books rewritten so often?
Just like the muslims, liberals want to destroy US History. Can’t wait to piss on Obama’s corpse!
1776_DEJAvU Talking about slavery, majority of Americans don’t know who were the slave masters who enslaved the Black from Africa. Just see http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=wsaPQ8jOqGo you will learn some thing
nice video but I already knew of Islam selling slaves on the Barbary Coast…Islam is nothing but a bunch of slave masters that their Koran approves of and encourages under Sharia Law…Those people aren’t even human!!..
Obama family are all muslim slave traders to this day in Kenya where the crack smoking queer Barrack was born. Not being a citizen, for invading USA he & everyone in this illegal admin will die soon this year in America’s 1st bloody coup & deleted & Trump will be put into office as the LEGAL POTUS # 44! GOD BLESS AMERICA! DEATH TO TYRANT QUEER MUSLIMS!
I love it when someone with wisdom speaks out… I’ve been saying the same things for some time…..
We have those who wants to take our history away from us and make a new country out of AMERICA. Its unfolding right in front of our eyes right now.
Obalmys big change.
Al. ” obalmys big change ” Yes towards Islamization of America by your jungle bunny half-cast Kenya born president . He is making sure Islam gets strong foothold in America before he goes, if ever he goes out of WH.
I agree with you surj.
Al. Please see the websites I have mentioned . Islam is NOT a religion but an EVIL CULT now see http://www.faithfreedom.org
Ok. Thank you.
There are a lot of Patriotic Veterans, servicemen, deer hunters, gun owners, Native Americans waiting daily for the US Armed Forces Coup to kill everyone in this illegally reigning tyrannical regime run by a foreign invading islamic terrorist Obama & his Iranian chief of staff, including Hillary & her Iranian chief of staff. Death to this entire regime & the traitors in both parties whom remain silent about it! GOD BLESS AMERICA! Now let’s take it back for the people, by the people, 2 term politicians with no retirement in office.
Yes, that’s why they bought ALL of the Hollow Point ammo Doc… be ready!
You really think they’ll obey the DOESTIC ENEMY Obamao when and if he tries it? I highly doubt it.
And Nuremberg style trial for those the politicians holding office now. With ‘We the People” as Judge and Jury!!
They can only change the written history. What really happened in our past cannot be changed as no one has invented that time machine to transport us back into our past. (Except Hollywood that is). If you have a history book written in the fifties or before, I strongly suggest you hang onto it…
Hate is in the eye of the beholder. If you look at the Confederate flag and want to see “racism”, so be it. If you look at that flag and want to see “history”, so be it. Just don’t tell ME what I HAVE to see, when I look at the Confederate flag.
Thanks for your service sir, from an enlisted Army Infantryman, disabled US Native American Warrior.
And, thank you for your service too. Native American Warrior, I salute you.
Ditto, Old Navy Chief whose GGF and two great uncles fought in the 18th Georgia Infantry, ANV. They owned no slaves and fought because they were under attack. The Confederate Battle Flag was designed to avoid friendly fire incidents, which happened early in the war. My GGF died at Seven Pines, and the uncles were both captured, at different times and places. One spent a year at Camp Douglas, far worse than Andersonville, because the Union had supplies and denied them to the POWs.
I salute all of our heros, past and present.
Thank you, kind Sir. I assume from your post that you are not kin to BHO. Fair winds and following seas.
No sir! Not related, but I am getting fed up with the best of America’s youth fighting the world’s wars.
Bring them all home, salute them and love them.
Remember, they are all volunteers. If we are to send them to fight, let them win, then come home.
Volunteers? I still see my kids coming home with faces burned away, legs and arms gone, hearing or sightless..breaks my heart. God Bless and Keep our heros, here and abroad.
We are on the same page. If we send them to fight, the ROE should allow them to win!
Amen, I also salute our military! We are the 1% of Americans who keep the rest of the cowards alive!
Great post!
Nothing wrong with the flag. It’s a symbol of a heritage .
So is the swastika
Where does the swastka come from? Do you know its history and symbolism? Yes the NAZI adopted it but why?
Cherokee Nation uses it, Cau Dai in Vietnam uses it, I know as a Native American Patriot & enlisted Vietnam Army Infantryman 1969.
The swastika (reversed arms) was a good luck symbol for the Cao Dai of Vietnam and most American Indians (or to be properly American political correct, original inhabitants. Where did it came frore
The swastika was a symbol of the Nazis. The Nazi SS officers weren’t wearing a Confederate Flag when they shoved 6 million Jews into gas chambers. Nor were they wearing a Confederate Flag when they conquered most of Europe. The opponents of the Nazis were not shoving Jews into gas chambers. Your analogy is a ridiculous false moral equivalency.
Here is what is relevant about the swastika and the Nazis.
Nazism:
-Foreign fascist ideology
-Forced acceptance
-Suppression of free expression
Black Supremacy:
-Domestic fascist ideology
-Forced acceptance
-Suppression of free expression
By the way Thomas, would you please tell everyone how many years experience you have had being black? I wonder if you think you have the right to talk with another race’s mouth.
Amen!
one thing about hitler and the “final solution”. had he kept killing only jews NO ONE in Europe would have said a word to stop him. nearly every country in Europe at the time , including England , did NOT like the jews.
Jews were NOT the only people annihilated by the Nazis. A great number of Gypsies were also put to death, but nobody even considers them worth mentioning. Only Jews are regarded as victims and forgets the rest of the people who shared the same fate.
You Sir are WRONG! That Symbol was used by the Indians of this Country Loooooooong before Hitler! get your facts straight before you Rant Jibberish
“You Sir are WRONG! That Symbol was used by the Indians of this Country Loooooooong before Hitler! get your facts straight before you Rant Jibberish”
The fact that the Native Americans used the swastika as a symbol does NOT contradict my claim that the Nazis used the swastika as a symbol, James Kaelin. There is nothing wrong with what I wrote. Don’t put words in my mouth. Get YOUR facts straight before YOU rant jibherish, James.
It is to my Cherokee Heritage! You are an asshole!
Boom, another self hating liberal bites the dust!
You committing suicide or what? I can assist if you need help!
It’s still the United States and our citizens who had ancesters fight and die for a cause. The swastika Hitler made into an evil thing.
No it wasn’t, the Swastika was a sign of the Socialist Democratic Party. They got all their ideas about eugenics from our very own Margaret Sanger…founder of the baby butchering organization that will be defunded soon.
Progressive’s are a mirror image of the NAZI party!!!
1776_DejaVu. Do you know who were and are the real Nazis ? See http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com
Thomas Dugan you are a member of the ignorant class, the swastika was a symbol used by the Navajo Indians in America long before Hitler used it.
William Benton ” ..the swastika was symbol used by the Navajo Indians in America long before Hitler used it ” NO, swastika symbol was used by HINDUS in India and is still used to this day for prosperity sign
One truth doesn’t deny another.
Are you saying that because Hindus in India used the swastika the American Indians never did. I believe it was used by both and still is.
Slave owners didn’t round up blacks, put them in concentration camps and/or burn them alive. Also, most of the black Americans that live here now have it pretty good considering the miserable life that almost all of the Africans live today.
If their ancestors were never brought here as slaves [close to] none of them would have ever been born.
and the Us would be a better place.
Here is the terrible truth! The Blacks at that time were not very smart people! that’s why they were used mostly has house maids and farmers! THEY WERE NEVER USED TO BUILD OUR RAIL SYSTEM! WE USED THE CHINESE AND IRSH SLAVES FOR THAT! BECAUES THEY WERE MUCH SMARTER! DON’T LIKE IT! TO BAD IT’S THE TRUTH! NAME ONE BLACK NATION THAT IS PROSPEROUS! ZERO!!!!!
All of the comments here make my point for me. Symbols can have more than one background and mean different things to different people. Good symbols can be adopted for bad causes and ultimately represent something else entirely. Both the swastika and the battle flag have come to represent bad things to a large number of people. It all comes down to who, where and why it is displayed. Both of these symbols represent horrible times for this country and are thus offensive to many people, regardless of race or ancestry. Where I live, displaying the battle flag is an overt “in your face” defiant action done by mostly red-necked ignorant rural young white men. You may draw your own conclusions as to their motivation.
Maybe you should move…Just sayin’. BTW, when the KKK was revitalised in the mid 20s, they marched under the US flag. Look at films of their marches. And look at the 1913 reenactment of Gettysburg, when the Yankee Vets crossed over the wall and helped the exhausted Veterans of Pickett’s charge make it up the hill. We could learn a lot from them about putting aside differences.
Your P.C. ilk offend and repulse me. YOU and YOU alone give the historic Confederate flag it’s meaning. The rest of us see it as a valued part of our country’s history. Unlike you lefties, I find the Mexican flag flying over our land more offensive!!
Shut up you Liberal Puke!
Amen, and I don’t even know why that Liberal Puke should shut up. I just know that liberals are pukes!
Hence the victicrat mindset of the limp wristed lefties. You American Flag burners love the Mexican flag doncha!?
Finally, a school that does the RIGHT thing and is NOT tolerating the pc bullshit!!
I am still waiting for someone to articulate what exactly is this great heritage that is constantly brought up as justification for displaying this flag. All I ever see are people who want to fight that war again as if the outcome could somehow be changed. The only heritage I can determine would be a society and economy based upon cheap slave labor. The North who won the war do not go around constantly reminding everyone that they won. Those who lost should honor all who died and move on.
Maybe you should learn more what that flag stands for. I guess most liberals can’t understand it but tough.
Still waiting for a description of this heritage thing.
If you are too lazy to read then buddy I feel sorry for you. No wonder you liberals are so damn dumb. Look it up. You apparently have a computer. Are you really that lazy? Maybe like all the other thin skinned liberals you just want to protest and not even know what the hell you’re protest. Grow up.
Today it reminds us of the Tyranny of WDC and has nothing to do with Slavery..
Because the South wasnt going to get pushed around by a bunch of Damn YANKEES
states rights period!
You wouldn’t understand what Southern Heritage means so why bother explaining it to you!
GO FUCK YOURSELF PARASITE!
The Civil war was NOT about Slavery it was about the North trying to control the South. They threw the slavery part in so they would go to War with the South easier. Sad but true. The Govt. Even back then had so many Dumbed down Sheep that were easily persuaded to jump off that cliff Because They Said To.
The South was run by Democrats! Have you ever heard of the Dixiecrats? If not, look it up. We’re tired of doing all the work for you. Who started the KKK? Look it up! As with anything you liberals respond to is by trying to demean people and call them names. If you don’t have any idea how to debate, then SHUT UP!!
When you grow up in the South, you know your heritage, are proud of it,
and don’t have to explain it to anyone, especially to a pc jerk like
yourself. The North enjoyed the lower cost of products from the South
because of this same “cheap slave labor.” You are incorrect that the
North did not go around constantly reminding everyone they won. Northern
carpetbaggers flooded into the South to exploit our loss and decimate
what was left. You have also conveniently forgotten about the slaves
owned by the self-righteous Northerners. (yes, you a**holes owned slaves
too). That would be the same slaves that Lincoln did not free through
the Emancipation Proclamation. Isn’t it interesting that you pompous
Northerners kept slaves after those in the South were freed, yet you
continue to criticize the South for ever having had slaves? Just do us
all a huge favor and stay where you are with the rest of your sheeple.
You would never fit in down here with people who think for themselves.
The hypocrisy and ignorance of northerners such as you,(not all northerners), is beyond belief. As for the north having “won the war”, what is it that you think the north won? How stupid can you and your ilk possibly be? Do you not yet see that the only “winner” of the “civil” war was the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Have you never yet seen that all of the states, both north and south. lost Constitutionally and are still suffering from that loss to this very day? You need to wake up, and you need to educate yourself.
To some people anything they don’t like is going to be racial no matter what. Isn’t it time to stop the BS? Soon they will want us to put tape over our mouths so we don’t say something that might offend some thin skinned idiot.
I say what I want. Anybody who doesn’t like it has a personal problem or just doesn’t have to listen !!!
PC be damned !!
Amen catman. We all need to take that stand and let them know what our constitution says.
We stand united!
My respect for this school for doing the right thing and standing their ground. No one needs to make an apology for their pride of their heritage. And if they feel this is a symbol of their heritage, neither the government nor anyone else has any say in the matter. And if they have this pride there is no need to defend themselves about anything. This was not a matter until public official and their comrades in dissension, the media used it as a political tool after a tragic shooting. Over 150 years nothing and then lo and behold, it is a problem. Stop pandering to devious and sinister forces of evil in government and the media.
Good for them in Virginia! Interesting, isn’t it, that our “leaders” here in South Carolina did not give us voters the opportunity to vote on the flag in Columbia?
Very disappointed in Nicky Haley!
well there does seem to be an election just around the corner.
The flag is an integral part of US history – leave it alone !
The news media, think they run this country, add that racist bitch obama and we have become a country divided.
It’s starting: common sense opposing the decades-long leftist PC dogma. No thanks to the PC defunct “free press.” Thank you Donald J. Trump for providing the spark that will burn these domestic enemies at the stake!
Why the stake? Anyplace anywhere is fine with me!!!
You won’t believe this !
South Garland High in Garland, TEXAS has wimped out.
This school has been known as the South Garland Rebels for years and, as with Hurley High, the ” Rebel” flag has been their inspirational standard.
Recently the “learned headmasters” of South Garland High announced the removal of every symbol of the evil rebel flag from their buildings and are in the process of creating a less offensive “mascot”.
I’m sure they will find something that will reflect the loving nature of the “black lives matter” movement.
You mean like a severed head in a USPS carton ready to ship from a Planned MURDERhood facility ?
As a Northerner who had three ancestors who fought in the Civil War, I believe it is a travesty that anyone should think that the Confederate Flag should be denied its place in the annals of American History. While it did seem a bit “rebellious” that the State of South Carolina had the flag flying by its State House 150 years after the end of the war that put down the rebellion of the Southern States, the flag is an historical symbol of that rebellion. It can not be removed from history. If people wish to regard it as a symptom of deeper causality respecting race, creed, or national origin, that is their right. History remains what it factually was.
The confederate Flag it’s part of history. Stand behind the school Keep the confederate flag flying. Do away with the flag with fringes in the state buildings, court houses, ans schools it’s a maritime flag it’s not the flag of the land.
IGo HURLEY!!! My wife, Linda is from that area of the Nation. Ieager, WV. She has many family living in Hurley. Our niece and nephew, Jackie and Steve own a restaurant “The Rebel Restaurant” in Hurley. The residents of the mountain community are 99% descendants of Confederate Soldiers. Keep it flying!!!
If they embrace hate fine , but don’t use our money for it !!!
African tribes had their own slaves from not only their own tribes, but enemy tribes as well. Africans sold their own people into slavery to slave traders. American Indians had slaves. Whites in all countries had white slaves in the form of debtors, indentured servants, buying and selling poor whites. Stop making issues of events that took place hundreds of years ago. Our history is being distorted and changed, and has not been accurate in many cases: Cowboys were black, white, Indian, Mexican, and mixed breed. You are what God made you and then somewhat responsible yourself for what you become. You had nothing to do with the color of your skin. You can control what you think and how you act. So stop blaming everybody else under the sun.
Norma A Vincent .. You are 100% right now see http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=31E1gHowYcA
If a schools is about “rebels” the their flag is certainly appropriate. This is another silly issue that needs to go away.
I was beginning to think there was no one with the guts to go against all of these hate mongers, blacks, Northeast and West Coast Liberals.
Liberals spew more racism and hatred to prove they have a thought. I don’t think they do, but with such great visionaries like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, they might have something. Something that’s tearing OUR country apart.
IT IS A 10TH AMENDMENT FLAG
My son owns a resale store in Louisiana, and since the complaints about the confederate flag, his business has really increased.
People all over Texas and Louisiana and as far away as Oregon are ordering flags.
People complain and want to be heard when they disagree. These people live to cause trouble and strive to change things. People don’t complain about any other minority flags that are displayed on vehicles or homes. Is it that the Confederate flag offends them or scares them? Don’t we, as Americans, have the right to display our heritage as any other American?
Just as much as the White House had when they displayed the rainbow flag on the white house when the scotus passed the same sex marriage law.
The flag does not represent
racism, but was rather a flag that was chosen by the southern states to represent
their independence from the north. Today, the confederate flag symbolically
honors those Americans who died for a cause they believed in. Also, because the
north won the war, really doesn’t excuse the segregation that existed in both
the north and the south for so many years, after the war had ended. Point
being; the flag simply honors the men who died in the war, which should not be
a controversial issue, noting that 96% of the southern population, at the time,
were not slavers. At the end God always wins!!
A town, school and people with some common sense over an inanimate object-people make the flag racist! People make guns unsafe, people make race issues violent! People are the problem-NOT flags, guns or ideas.
Sorry folks, hate to burst your bubble! All this racism is MAN-MADE! Those people that keep this racism going and who make it evil, are people looking for sensational news headlines and personal satisfaction only! Look at Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan and other racist’s who use their evil personalities to promote their own hateful racist agenda! This is the real root of evil in America! Perpetrated by narcissistic racist’s who are out for self portrayed GODlIness! This is the real truth that no one will admit!
MOLON LABE
I agree with you 100%. Race baiters have to keep bring racism at every turn. The Confederate flag was carried by soldiers fighting for the Confederacy. They decided to come up with a flag since the North carried a flag into battle. The Confederate flag went through many versions. First the crossed stars were in the upper left hand corner and the rest of the flag was white. They gave up on that idea because you couldn’t see the left corner and the North thought it was a surrender flag. They then proceeded to have two or three more versions, but none of them were satisfactory to carry into battle. They finally settled on the flag you see today. If you there’s something curious about that flag. It has red, white, and blue with stars. Colors and stars sound familiar don’t they. So, if the blacks should be angry at it is the Black Africans. White slave traders didn’t have to go searching for them. They were brought by African Blacks. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson among others owned slaves. The North wasn’t fighting to free the slaves, it was to keep the country together. When Lincoln freed the slaves that was the worse thing that could have happened to them. It was the slave owners who kept them fed and clothed, and there was injustice. When they were freed they had NOTHING, no land, no one to supply them with food, no clothes were provided. They had to RENT the land, and provide all their food, clothes, etc. Of course, they were taken advantage of , because they had to buy EVERYTHING from the Company (owners) Store. They didn’t get a fair price for their cotton, so they continued ‘working’ for themselves(?) and couldn’t make it. That’s when big migration to the North took place. Most from mississippi moved North to Chicago and they were no better off. Racism was worse than in the South, so that’s were all the ghettos sprang up in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. Their dream came with them, but it didn’t flourish, because of their lack of skills and education. All they knew how to tend to the land, not much land in the Northern cities. Yes, there was racism, but they couldn’t get out of their poverty because as mentioned, they lacked skills and education. So the only jobs they could get were menial, no education or skill needed. They became washerwomen, cleaners, car wash attendants, butlers, as you can see not a bright future. Democrats came in and promised them the world, but of course they weren’t going to deliver. They were ‘forced’ to stay in the ghetto and when drugs became a high seller they turned to that. I remember as a high schooler, went into the city to get marijuana. That was the drug of choice of suburban kids. They started lacing them with PCP, a dog tranquilizer, and they became available in the suburbs ‘if you knew someone’. Chicago was run by Democrats then and now, but then you could buy with a cop squad on the other side of the street. They became hard drugs and the ‘police’ busted some one from time to time. Forward to today and you saw more and more ‘reverends’ after Martin Luther King was killed not practicing his ways to curb racism. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and others were calling whites, the devil and all the woes they experienced was because whitey wanted to keep them down. Malcolm X was the only one that said black and white have to coexist. Where did it get him, murdered by blacks who didn’t like,what he was saying. So, very briefly you get the idea, Democrats were satisfied to keep blacks as ‘slaves’ to do their bidding. Big problem with people that don’t know history were deceived in many areas. Like the KU KLUX KLAN was started to keep blacks, Catholics, and Jews under ‘control’. By the way the KKK was started by Democrats to CONTROL the black population in the South. Fear always works, as does today, fomented by those racists of today. BLACKS should ask themselves, are they better off since Obama became president. If they’re honest they will say NO. What happens to all those that MADE it and get paid millions of dollars to play games. Of course, you don’t need an education, but the MAJORITY of them can’t achieve that level. How many Major League Basketball and Baseball players are there, what’s the real expectation they will make it. I’ll stop here, because I know there’s going to be a backlash from whites and blacks that have their opinions and therefore it stands to reason that my opinions and observation are totally WRONG. I must warn you ahead of time,I for the most part don’t respond to posts where people try to demean me and call me names. If you don’t have a logical and well thought out response, don’t bother as I will delete them. Thank you. May God keep us sane and out of the hands of the EVIL ONE (Obama).
WOLFMAN113-THANK YOU FOR THE KIND AND WELL INFORMED REPLY! This is one of the most well thought out, respectful, and considerate responses I’ve received in weeks! Keep responding! Level heads of true American thinkers are in short supply these days. Thanks again!
Proud US vet/American, I’m truly encourage that there are people that are level headed and don’t resort to name calling. I will continue to abide by the truth and remind people that OUR country is just that – OURS. Regardless of what’s politically correct, I tell it like it is. If there’s anyone who doesn’t like it, I’m sure I can find a few people to help them move. It’s very simple love it or leave it. There are a few blemishes, but it’s still the GREATEST country in the world. Don’t try to bring it down. We already have someone who hates OUR country, the Muslim-in-charge and don’t need any naysayers to help him in his quest to reduce it a Third World country. Make constructive suggestions and don’t back down. I remember a saying I heard a while back: “You have to stand FOR something or you’ll FALL for anything”. So fellow Americans let’s strive to keep OUR country OURS. Thank you for your kind words and THANK YOU for the service you performed to keep OUR country SAFE and FREE.
The KKK was started by Nathan Bedford Forest to combat the carpet baggers that came in to exploit the land owners of their property and what little of anything else they had, just after the war.
Thanks Tony for the info. I believe the land owners were the blacks who became sharecroppers. Since they lacked any education they were taken advantage by former Southern slave owners. And of course, you can’t leave former slaves with any land. Northern carpet baggers had to get into the action. What better way to scare them, then by dressing as ghosts. Once again thank you for presenting your info without calling me names. Ninety per cent of posts start with casting doubt on your intelligence. Civilized discourse is a lost art. God Bless America and all its citizens that love FREEDOM!
I, too, went to a high school, along with 100’s of blacks, in Tennessee. Our flag
was the Rebel flag, our mascot was a rebel soldier, our yell was a rebel yell, our song “Down South in Dixie”. No black complained, no one refused to dress out in football or basketball. This is all ridiculous!
I wish someone would call me for a poll…
The Stars and Stripes flew above slaves in America for far longer than the Confederate flag. There is nothing racist about the Confederate flag, other than the modern Race baiters want eveyrone to believe.
Good for you Ms. Pam Dotson, the principal of Hurley High School in Buchanan County, Virginia. “Our community it standing by it,”
It part of history, your history, and the Black Lies Matter crowd has just as much legitimacy to tear it down and denounce its historical content as the KuKluxKlan has to burn anything and everything of the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King.
It is so good that some folks use their right to free expression concerning flags, and that goes for Old Glory to.. The political correctness idiots will try their best to take free speech of any kind that they don’t like, and try to change it.. Another reason that they don’t like Trump….
Thank you Hurley High School in Virginia,you truly do understand what that flag means.It doesn’t mean RACISM,HATE,SLAVERY,OR BLACK OPPRESSION.It is a symbol of the south saying to the north,we are tired of the oppression of the southern people and now we have made this flag,THE CONFEDERATE FLAG as a symbol of our
NEW country,THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,and our country starts at this line,The Mason-Dixon line.
South of this line is our country and you are NOT WELCOME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good for them. here in quartz hill Kalifornexico our high school was called the rebels and had a cartoon rebel on stars and bars till some prejudist black person whined about it and the gutless school district took away the stars and bars.
Actually we need to ban the name of the Democrat Party, that’s the party of slavery, segregation, kkk and anti-civil rights, seven Democrat Presidents were slave holders. Wilson re-instituted segregation in the Federal Government, the KKK has its roots in the Democrat party, LBJ played the race card at will.
That is really great information Sir… maybe we should play the same game the libtards do and try to milk that for all it’s worth.
No, wait… it’s based in truth… never mind.
I’m a Mark Levin fan. Tune him in, one can listen to his daily radio show at his web site. Read his latest book Plunder and Deceit. He takes no prisoners, his logic and articulation can not be beat. I’ve stopped watching TV and cable news and just tune him in.
By “card carrying members of the KKK” are you referring to all of the Dem politicians who held high up offices in the KKK and who tremendously aided in the formation of that organization? Remember that the Grand Puba was that Dem Senator Byrd from W.V. who was a huge supporter of the philosophy of the KKK and who held that office of Grand Puba or something similar! If the blacks were not so damned racist they would know these things about the Dem’s.
We have allowed the liberals to ‘take’ America by force and destroy the founding principles based upon the God given Rights we have to richly enjoyed. Obama and his minions are ‘slow cooking’ Americans and taking away our symbols of heritage, Biblical truths, and Constitutional Rights while replacing them with the Marxist/socialist and Islamist sharia.
America, if it is going to survive and thrive as ‘One Nation Under God’, we must fight for our Liberty, Freedom, and Bill of Rights. If not, we will be a nation gone under.
ADR, you are absolutely right. What we need is for ALL CHRISTIANS and JEWS to unite to fight the evils perpetrated by Obama and his disloyal administration. When the CHURCH (ALL denominations) put up a united front, that’s when we will some impact. Right now the only one who is trying to consolidate all churches is the Marxsist pope. He wants ONE WORLD RELIGION with him at the helm. Obama and the U.N. are doing everything to form a ONE WORLD ORDER, with possibly Obama at the helm. Bottom line is all religions, except for the murderous Muslim cult, must UNITE to fight this EVIL, otherwise you can kiss OUR country good bye.
GOD BLESS AMERICA and ALL PATRIOTS THAT STAND WITH HER!!
If America stands, its only a matter of time before attempts will be made to remove the American Flag, the Current Administration hates everything that our Freedom Represents–Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, etc….
Kudo’s to Pam Dotson! I have an interesting story also. Back in the 1970’s, the word ‘consolidation’ was gaining strength. It was felt that by combining several of the smaller schools, there would be better and more opportunities for students to take advantage of. I was all for it…hooray!! I live in beautiful Southern Indiana, and in this consolidation, we in Spencer County got a new High School which was built on property directly adjacent to the property where our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln spent his formative years. We now had Lincoln State Park, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, complete with a replica of the log cabin where Abe studied by illumination from his fireplace, and the property also contains the grave site of Abe’s mother, Nancy Hanks. When the property was chosen and the powers that be began searching for a name for this new educational facility, I enter the name of Heritage Hills; in honor of the prestigious location of the school, and to include the beautiful rolling hills throughout this area. Our mascot became the Patriot, and our colors are red, white and blue. This is the school built in North Spencer County, and in South Spencer County, there was also a new school, appropriately named Spencer County Rebels…complete with the Rebel name for their sports teams, and the good old Rebel Flag!!! Amen!! And we compete in the red-blooded nature of the American people.
This business of a FLAG having to be removed from public view because Al Sharpton and his ilk continue on a daily basis hunting for this to stir up unrest among the American people…hummm…isn’t Al a democrat? Wouldn’t that make him a member of the party that insists theirs is the party of compassion?
This rebel flag is as much a vital part of our American history as our precious Stars and Stripes. Wouldn’t this country be so much better off if Sharpton, Jackson, and, yes, even Obama, could find positive ways to help our country, protect its history and be the real compassionate ones they claim to be. That rebel flag in a piece of cloth that even today gives us cause to remember the struggles we had to become a great nation…just as our Star Spangled Banner flies beautifully, reminding us of what we have overcome, it can also be seen as Francis Scott Key saw it when he penned our national anthem. It was barely hanging by a thread…tattered and torn, but still flying, representing hope and victory over our enemy. We still have the privilege of living in the greatest country ever assembled on this earth, and it honestly, makes me sick to have these people who would rather tear down than build up. Long may old Glory wave, and long may we treasure in our hearts ,and allow the rebel flag to remain visible, as a reminder of what we are as a nation, and even though racism, as well as many others not so great qualities live in the hearts of many, we are not racist as a nation.
I love the Confederate Flag. Period!
Kudo’s to Pam Dotson and her school!! I have a story to tell, also. Back in the 1970’s the word ‘consolidation’ was being bantered about, with the hope that by consolidating several of the small schools in areas, opportunities would be greater for our students education, and I was all for it…hurray! I live in beautiful Southern Indiana and the property that was chosen for our new school was directly adjacent to property where our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, spent his formative years. We proudly promote Lincoln State Park, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, as well as a replica of the cabin where Abe studied his law books by light from his fireplace, or candle, and it also contains the burial site of Abe’s mother, Nancy Hanks. With plans for the new school beginning, there was a call for a name, and the name I entered, and the name that was chosen and our new school was named Heritage Hills, honoring, not only our beloved president, but the beautiful location among the rolling hills of Southern Indiana. Our mascot became the Patriot and our colors are red, white and blue! We are proud Heritage Hills Patriots!
This is in Northern Spencer County, and just below us is The South Spencer Rebels, complete with the rebel mascot and name for their sports teams, and they proudly boast the Rebel (Confederate) flag! We compete in sports, in red-blooded competition…the North and the South!
This business of the rebel flag having to be removed from public view is utter nonsense. That flag is a vital part, and representative of the struggles this nation endured to become a great nation…and people like Al Sharpton and his ilk want to deny its existence??? To me it is no different that saying we can no longer display our beloved flag, Old Glory, which today flies as a reminder of what we have had to do to become the greatest nation on earth. We should also keep as a reminder Old Glory as Francis Scott Key say it when it was tattered, and torn, barely hanging by a thread, but a thread of hope, and reminder of the struggles we have gone through to become great.
It really bothers me that people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and yes, even Barack Obama, seem to spend more of their time destroying what has taken years to build.
Our flags, the Rebel, or Confederate flag, as well as Old Glory are just pieces of cloth, but should always be visible reminders of the nation we really are. Both of these schools here in Southern Indiana proudly support people of different backgrounds, so why can’t our leaders overcome their childish attitudes and help us keep America great rather than nit-pick? Yes, there is racism in America, as well as many other bad qualities, but they do not and should not define us as a nation!
FINELY SOMEONE STANDING UP FOR OUR HISTORY–a flag is racists?
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riots in the streets are racists
burning down homes & business,——– is racists
blacks killing blacks being acceptable— is racists
blacks robing & raping blacks, being acceptable—is racists
black lives matter—is racists
hands up, don’t shoot— is raciest
but a flag that just waves, is just, a flag the waves–blacks are offended?
WHITE PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED BY BLACKS CONSTANT BEING BLAMED FOR THEIR PLIGHT
black politicians use race to justify their doing nothing to help their own people, no matter how much money is given to them to help, but winds up in black rich people’s bank accounts like AL SHARPTON, that doesn’t even pay his income taxes?
It’s refreshing and encouraging to see someone standing up to the enemies of truth.
I think it is wonderful; I wish that schools would have been this strong when they removed the Holy Bible.
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Good for them! It’s about time people started standing up for themselves instead of playing the leftist games by the leftists rules and bending over every time they start running their loud mouths off.
I’m proud to be southern,I’m proud to be white,and my flag doesn’t represent racism.
If my flag offends you, you need a history lesson.
If the war between the states was about slavery,why was it 13 months after the war started before Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation?
Why did Grant, the unions number one general, still have slaves in 1875,the war ended in 1865 ?
I am from the North and living in the South but I have always liked the rebel flag and I have a great respect for all those who fought for and died for the rights of the south. I have never supported slavery and do not agree with those who did have slaves but the flag was not a symbol of racism, then or now. I am one of those who will go against the grain when someone tells me I can not do something that is perfectly legal or just because they want to create racism. I just bought a confederate flag and will display it with pride. I also have a neighbor that is black and one spanish and they are great neighbors. I would do anything within reason to help and stay on good terms with them. We are all equal in the sight of God, and who cares about what others think.
How do you like that People? Children standing up for a flag. The school,citizens both black and white. HEY TELEVISION STATIONS, Obama and congress children know more, do more THAN YOU DUMB ASSES ever could. They’re gonna take your jobs!
I find offense having a queer crack smoking invading foreign muslim terrorist in OUR WHITEHOUSE & demand it’s blood be spilt!