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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts) Fri Jun 26, 2015, 08:36 PM Jun 2015

150 years later, America is still battling the Confederate mentality

One hundred fifty years too late, the Confederacy may finally be coming to an end. Finishing it off, however, will require more than getting rid of an offensive flag ...

The flag was used not only by Confederate soldiers to defend slavery but also by Ku Klux Klansmen committing acts of unspeakable terror against African Americans — and by state governments throughout the South trumpeting their determination to keep the repression and exploitation of Jim Crow segregation in place. It is a symbol that belongs on the prison-tattooed skin of Aryan Nation thugs, along with their swastikas and their SS insignia. Nowhere else.

But the Confederacy is more than a flag, more than a region, more than Southern nostalgia based on the lie that the Civil War was about something other than slavery. The Confederacy that has endured for a century and a half after Appomattox is a state of mind that encompasses white supremacy, black subjugation, unrestricted gun rights and defiance of the legitimacy of the federal government. Banishing the flag is a beginning, but there is much more to be done.

As a native South Carolinian, I was proud of Haley as she delivered her eloquent speech about the flag — an Indian American female governor, flanked by all of the state’s leading officials, including the first elected African American U.S. senator from the South since Reconstruction, Tim Scott ...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/sfl-150-years-later-america-is-still-battling-the-confederate-mentality-20150626-story.html

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150 years later, America is still battling the Confederate mentality (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2015 OP

Teaching the hate is so ingrained in so many families in the south. liberal N proud Jun 2015 #1

Antebellum, that bad taste of defeat, Ass-holes of Media firing people up, Evil politicians harness orpupilofnature57 Jun 2015 #2

Dealing with a semi-bagger today... Historic NY Jun 2015 #3

Citizenship of ancestors doesn't usually affect US citizenship: struggle4progress Jun 2015 #4

liberal N proud

(60,340 posts)

1. Teaching the hate is so ingrained in so many families in the south.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 08:59 PM

Jun 2015

You would think that there would be enough interactions that it would break down. But it just keeps propagatin from one generation to the next.

Why would you want to raise a child with such hate? Hate destroys the hater as much as it does their target.

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)

2. Antebellum, that bad taste of defeat, Ass-holes of Media firing people up, Evil politicians harness

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:13 PM

Jun 2015

White male inferiority masked by supremacy, condoned murder, condoned rape, all sick devices to build injured esteem .

Historic NY

(37,452 posts)

3. Dealing with a semi-bagger today...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 09:46 PM

Jun 2015

upset the gays can still parade. ... then he was upset that the General Lee was going have its flag taken away. I remind him he is from the north and the stars and bars are an insult....more rants....if you fly it then it then its code that your a racist... well he still wasn't convinced. I remind him Lincoln hated these symbols and if he lived they most likely would not have been permitted. Still nothing how about checking out what Ken Burns says.....He went on about re-enactments and civil war re-eanctors. I remind him its pretend. Still not convinced I go there telling him the Confederate States citizens lost their US citizenship and many had to accept a pardon. Some refused and many were refused until around 1869. Still not convinced I told him go read some . I told him I'd bet a few stubborn jackwagons didn't get one so that makes the descendants non-citizens. He couldn't believe how many were listed...and there I told him it was a fraction.

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1187

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Confederate_Amnesty_Records

struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)

4. Citizenship of ancestors doesn't usually affect US citizenship:

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:13 PM

Jun 2015

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside

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