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MaddieM · (This post was last modified: 08-13-2015 05:32 PM by MaddieM.)

(06-24-2015 07:18 PM)LincolnMan Wrote: While the issue of the Confederate flag may or may not be a problem- I think the effort going on at this time is misguided in that it doesn't address the more deeply rooted problem in our nation- the breakdown of the family. Remove the Confederate flag- and even remove all of the statues and memorials of the Confederacy- and you still have the same problem- which is virtually ignored by the media and politicians of the day.

How sad that a flag should be the totem for racial hatred. Hatred is in the heart, and that's where the focus should be in clearing it out. I'm not American, so perhaps it's not my place to say so, but if my ancestors had fought and died beneath that flag, I would be quite upset to see it being used as a device for creating more hatred.

The Nazi's took a sacred symbol of luck, the swastika, and forever tainted it. Is this what will happen to the Confederate flag? If they ban that flag, something else will be taken up and used in the same way, I don't doubt. And so it goes on and on, ad nauseam.

(06-25-2015 08:52 PM)J. Beckert Wrote: Here's my take on this - we've become a nation of snivelling, whiney, bleeding heart sissies that pander to anyone who screams racism. As several forum members have stated, their ancestors wore gray. The overwhelming majority were not slaveholders. As with all wars, the working man goes to the front. We're constantly told we can't judge all Muslims by the actions of extremists, but if the right folks scream racism loud enough, things like this come about. Young men who went to war because they saw their homeland burned and looted, can be painted with a broad brush if it quells the whining masses. The whole thing .makes me sick.

It's worse in the UK, regarding bleeding heart sissies, believe me! Our leader is one of them!!

You know, I guess most if not all of those who went to war, had to in the end, or be shot for it. In the end, did any of them have a choice? All those people who died, on both sides... it shouldn't be in vain...something good should come out of it. History teaches us nothing.