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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Thu Sep 24, 2015, 05:56 PM Sep 2015

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Confederate flag returns to Georgia license plates

5:24 p.m. EDT September 24, 2015

ATLANTA-- The Confederate battle flag is making a return appearance to Georgia license plates. The specialty tag devoted to the Sons of Confederate Veterans will return after a minor redesign ...

Coleman says the redesign will eliminate the background Confederate flag, while keeping the foreground Confederate flag ...

But the move angered people who want the state government to stop using the battle flag, saying it's identified nowadays as a symbol of white supremacy ...

"What that Confederate flag symbolizes is just so hateful and so mean-spirited that to say that 'we'll compromise by only slapping you once' is not acceptable," Fort said Thursday ...

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/2015/09/24/confederate-flag-plate/72760200/

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Confederate flag returns to Georgia license plates (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

I wonder if this is a free-speech issue since the tag will cost a lot more. I wouldn't be caught... BlueJazz Sep 2015 #1

The Supreme Court ruled on that issue this June struggle4progress Sep 2015 #2

Oh, well...I understand. Thanks for setting me straight. BlueJazz Sep 2015 #3

It still needs more redesigning. mr clean Sep 2015 #4

11 alive news wants to track my location? KentuckyWoman Sep 2015 #5

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

1. I wonder if this is a free-speech issue since the tag will cost a lot more. I wouldn't be caught...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:01 PM

Sep 2015

...dead with the damn thing but I also don't want to deprive others of being an idiot.

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

2. The Supreme Court ruled on that issue this June

Reply to BlueJazz (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:21 PM

Sep 2015

in Walker v Sons of Confederate Veterans: states are not obliged to issue confederate plates

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

3. Oh, well...I understand. Thanks for setting me straight.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:25 PM

Sep 2015

mr clean

(170 posts)

4. It still needs more redesigning.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 10:50 PM

Sep 2015

KentuckyWoman

(6,681 posts)

5. 11 alive news wants to track my location?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 10:59 PM

Sep 2015

On the post subject....... wonder who the jackass is in the statehouse who championed this and got it through?

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