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I have decided (Original Post) CelticWinter Jun 2018 OP
I haven't flown the flag Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #1
I stand with you. nt Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #2
I will fly my flag handmade34 Jun 2018 #3
Well that'll make everything all better RandomAccess Jun 2018 #4
this is something personal CelticWinter Jun 2018 #7
easy for you to say heaven05 Jun 2018 #10
Can't do it myself heaven05 Jun 2018 #5
Today is June 19th, Juneteenth. Happy Freedom Day! RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2018 #8
:) CelticWinter Jun 2018 #12
I see little to celebrate. Maybe a wake would be more appropriate Va Lefty Jun 2018 #6
I think that anyone flying the flag this 4th lunatica Jun 2018 #9
You are very mistaken. My husband will insist on flying Pathwalker Jun 2018 #14
Get a grip! lunatica Jun 2018 #15
I'm not angry at you - I'm too busy being outraged at the Pathwalker Jun 2018 #16
I saw that and posted about before I said what I did about the flag lunatica Jun 2018 #17
I'm Native-American & African-American. LenaBaby61 Jun 2018 #11
Happy Juneteenth! lunatica Jun 2018 #18
Our local Dems have two annual BBQs: Labor Day and July 4. Being with like-minded people... Hekate Jun 2018 #13
I haven't celebrated it since the Iraq invasion and will not honor the flag until sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #19

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
1. I haven't flown the flag
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jun 2018

since 2016. And I feel you on the Independence Day thing. Hope all those Fed Prosecutors get a nice long weekend though. Working so hard. They should go golfing and maybe shoot up to Marthas Vineyard for some 'sail time'.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
4. Well that'll make everything all better
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:26 PM
Jun 2018

I'm sorry. But your "protest" will mean absolutely nothing.

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CelticWinter

(1,399 posts)
7. this is something personal
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:30 PM
Jun 2018

I have been contacting my congressmen and bitching up a blue streak, this I do for myself.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
10. easy for you to say
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:42 PM
Jun 2018

but enough of us do just what Celtic is saying, IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. I let my neighbours know exactly why I won't fly this flag of shame, a couple will join me and they, like I, have sent truth to the powerful cowards in D.C. and locally. WETHEPEOPLE are the true power only if we exercise our perogative to "protest" loudly and consistently.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. Can't do it myself
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:28 PM
Jun 2018

but that holiday, the 4th of July, HAS NEVER been intended for POC. And that has been proven over and over again by white ameriKKKan citizens and police authority. I damn sure won't have a flag out for the 4th EVER again. Flag DAY, no. Just veteran remembrance and observance days. Yet the old red, white and blue is being covered with blood from all the unarmed and usually innocent POC executed/murdered recently by the policing authority of the USA and now being made irrelevant by the pain and misery being caused by this monster called potus to innocent children at our concentration/detainee camps

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
8. Today is June 19th, Juneteenth. Happy Freedom Day!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:34 PM
Jun 2018

Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas, ... Wikipedia
Significance: Emancipation of the last remaining enslaved people in the United States



lunatica

(53,410 posts)
9. I think that anyone flying the flag this 4th
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:38 PM
Jun 2018

will be supporting Trump. That’s what I think when I see one out now, for no other reason than to make a statement. I know which neighbors to avoid like the plague if they also fly the snake don’t tread on me flag.

Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
14. You are very mistaken. My husband will insist on flying
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:11 PM
Jun 2018

the flag that day, and he will do so in honor of his brother, our son, my brothers and cousins, all of whom served this nation in 3 wars. We don't allow ANYONE to tell us that we don't have as much right to fly it as they do. And don't think we don't despise tRump - I had a heart attack 3 days after the "election" because I couldn't stop crying. Please don't just ass*u*me everyone is flying it to support baby Hitler - we're shoving it in the face of his asshole supporters! It's OUR flag too.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. Get a grip!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:18 PM
Jun 2018

All I’m saying is that it’s what I’ll think when I see one on this 4th. It will be what pops into my mind, which I actually blame Trump for. I’m not insulting you or family. I have family who’ve fought AND given their lives too. So save your anger for those who desecrate it.

Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
16. I'm not angry at you - I'm too busy being outraged at the
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:21 PM
Jun 2018

latest evil from these monsters, yet trying to zen out from time to time. I saw he was humping the flag today - ewww!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
17. I saw that and posted about before I said what I did about the flag
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:26 PM
Jun 2018

I only hope I can look at the flag in the future without having that come to mind!

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
11. I'm Native-American & African-American.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:42 PM
Jun 2018

So, I've never celebrated the 4th. I have on occasion celebrated Juneteenth Day, which is today.

However today, I choose to be still and celebrate nothing.

I'm meditating.

This country, thanks to cruel, racist, rotten-ass tRump, his puppet-master putin, beauguard, Miller & Kirstjen Nielsen & most thuglicans have this country/world enveloped in pure turmoil & HELL.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
18. Happy Juneteenth!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:29 PM
Jun 2018

Columbus Day is another one Native Americans don’t have any reason to celebrate! I don’t celebrate that either.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
13. Our local Dems have two annual BBQs: Labor Day and July 4. Being with like-minded people...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:59 PM
Jun 2018

...can be a real tonic.

But putting out my flag? Not this year.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
19. I haven't celebrated it since the Iraq invasion and will not honor the flag until
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:07 PM
Jun 2018

the fascists are all gone.

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