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busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2015, 12:40 AM Jun 2015

Listen.. I am not an insensitive prick

but I don’t want to watch Anderson Cooper stand in front of the camera and talk about the victims of the shooting, reminding the viewers just how horrible the event was.. I don’t want to hear politicians talk about how so many good religious people perished because they were Black and simply were attending a simple Bible Study Group.. Don’t want to hear or see the Gov of this fucking state cry and talk about how South Carolina is in shock over the event ( my interpretation)

The only thing I wan’t to see right the fuck now is to see that fucking confederate flag immediately taken down.. Period!!!!

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Listen.. I am not an insensitive prick (Original Post) busterbrown Jun 2015 OP

Word. onecaliberal Jun 2015 #1

that flag is a fucking disgrace Skittles Jun 2015 #2

The fact that it yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #3

huge kick olddots Jun 2015 #4

Yes Tree-Hugger Jun 2015 #11

it represents this... 63splitwindow Jun 2015 #5

I no longer call it the Confederate Flag. I call it the Rebel Swastika phleshdef Jun 2015 #6

That flag is an abomination. calimary Jun 2015 #7

It's been 150 years since they lost their damned war Warpy Jun 2015 #8

Tear that flag down and publicly burn it on national television. Juicy_Bellows Jun 2015 #9

I know what happened... SoapBox Jun 2015 #10

Chris Hayes had on former governor Mark (hiking the Appalachian Trail) Sanford.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #12

I never understood why things that should be easy to get done are so hard to get done. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #13

It takes courage, which few politicians have. brer cat Jun 2015 #14

onecaliberal

(32,878 posts)

1. Word.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:03 AM

Jun 2015

Skittles

(153,170 posts)

2. that flag is a fucking disgrace

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:04 AM

Jun 2015

yuiyoshida

(41,833 posts)

3. The fact that it

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:08 AM

Jun 2015

WON'T be done IS even more disturbing.

olddots

(10,237 posts)

4. huge kick

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:10 AM

Jun 2015

Has anyone else ever heard " the south shall rise again." I have heard this shit all over this country and it is going to be the ruin of America .

Tree-Hugger

(3,370 posts)

11. Yes

Reply to olddots (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:14 AM

Jun 2015

I know people who hang a confederate flag with that saying on it.

I live in PA and we have a LOT of people who display confederate flags here.

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)

5. it represents this...

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:26 AM

Jun 2015

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phleshdef

(11,936 posts)

6. I no longer call it the Confederate Flag. I call it the Rebel Swastika

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:28 AM

Jun 2015

And folks can yell about (a misinterpretation of) Godwin's law or whatever, I don't give a shit. That is what it is to me.

calimary

(81,383 posts)

7. That flag is an abomination.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:29 AM

Jun 2015

A slap in the face to EVERYONE in the African American community. And to the rest of us, too. I find it tremendously insulting.

Warpy

(111,305 posts)

8. It's been 150 years since they lost their damned war

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:04 AM

Jun 2015

You'd think the stiff necked bastards down there would have realized it by now and grown up enough to get rid of that fucking flag.

Yes, I know it means something else to the south. It's still a disgrace.

Rip it down, incinerate it, realize the Articles of Confederation didn't work worth shit, and move on.

The south will rise again, but not while it's still clinging to the past.

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)

9. Tear that flag down and publicly burn it on national television.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:11 AM

Jun 2015

May I suggest it is torn down and set ablaze on July 4th - the flame licking Obama's celebratory hotdog for the occasion. Dress that dog proper: mustard, onion and relish then take a big ass bite while God Bless America plays over the loudspeaker.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

10. I know what happened...

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:13 AM

Jun 2015

I don't want to hear it over and over and over and over............

Take down that damned flag...it's offensive.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

12. Chris Hayes had on former governor Mark (hiking the Appalachian Trail) Sanford....

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:15 AM

Jun 2015

On the subject of the flag he said with a condescending tone, "You might like to pretend that past didn't exist,...."

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

13. I never understood why things that should be easy to get done are so hard to get done.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:27 AM

Jun 2015

Taking down the flag will cost absolutely nothing. It might cost something to redesign a flag, but big freaking deal.

brer cat

(24,581 posts)

14. It takes courage, which few politicians have.

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #13)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:07 AM

Jun 2015

Roy Barnes (D) former governor of GA changed the state flag, lost his reelection, and was the last democrat elected governor in GA. I have no doubt that every southern governor is well aware of the price they will pay if they attempt something similar. And that is even assuming they want to eliminate the despicable symbol, which I seriously doubt.

Gov. Barnes was awarded a JFK Library Profile in Courage award for changing the flag. That says a lot about what it takes in some states (not all of them southern) to take on their racist and bigoted citizens.

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