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Does the Confederate Flag offend you?

Marie/M2M2K August 04, 2009 12:34:30

First I want to give my take on this question so that readers will know where I'm coming from. None of us alive today were ever slaves. None of us alive have ever owned a slave. No one in my ancestry owned slaves. I love the south. It's where I was born and raised, and the Confederate Flag has been exposed to me all my life. My display of the Confederate Flag on my newest avatar is not meant to be an insult or to offend. I do not support hate groups like the KKK. Instead this flag to me represents the heritage of this country, specifically the south where I grew up. When I see the flag it makes me proud of how far our country has come in regards to civil rights. It reminds me that we all have inalienable rights. My display is not support for abolishing civil rights. It is a display that never lets me forget and to thank all those before us who fought to make sure we are ALL free and equal. This country has a lot of history - both good and bad.


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Yes, the Confederate Flag offends me because...
No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...
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  • +49 / -1 raves budd2007 August 04, 2009 13:46:15 (edited)
    budd2007

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    it does not stand for slavery. It is a symbol of a group which did not want Washington to tell them how to run their lives. (could use a little of that today). If the Confederate flag offends a person, then the Democratic party also offends them since it was the party of slavery.
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  • tay 2 days ago
    tay

    Yes, the Confederate Flag offends me because...

    its wrong
  • Marie/M... tay 2 days ago
    Marie/M2M2K
    And you made an all new fake account to say that, lmao!
  • -SouthernBelle- November 10, 2009 19:49:50
    -SouthernBelle-

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    listen this flag means our southern history..the south will rise again is a real statement if some moron cant see that the yankees & your president obama is takin away our freedom then you need to be given a little history lesson allthis happen with the civil war,,,,the north government tried to out rule us &thats; whats goin on agian they are tryin to take away our rights,that aint gonna happen i was born & raised in the south i DO stand for its true meanin(the south)
  • jessejoyce.com November 09, 2009 23:07:56
    jessejoyce.com

    Yes, the Confederate Flag offends me because...

    Visit my "Museum of Confederate Flags in Inappropriate Places" for a detailed explanation. http://www.jessejoyce.com/v2/...
  • Marie/M... jessejo... November 09, 2009 23:30:43
    Marie/M2M2K
    Stop soliciting on my poll especially with a fake ID!
    soliciting poll fake
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    Helo Chick October 28, 2009 20:08:29
    Helo Chick

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    Exactly how you said it, our country has come a long way. There's no reason why it should offend someone. Then again, people are offended with the mere mention of God. So I think are just to damn sensative. =)
  • jimbob89 October 18, 2009 21:17:15
    jimbob89

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    because i fly that flag just a true as i fly an american flag outside my house. for y'all that don't know. it's not a racist symbol at all. they didn't fight to keep there slaves, they fought for states rights. these days, dumb blacks and schools wanna believe my ppl are the reason for their dispair. well, they're own ppl back from africa sold them to us for bread and water. they all need to shut their mouths. i'm sick and tired of hearing blacks whine and snivel and bitch. they need to grow a pair and shut the hell up. i'm a confederate man til the day i die and i may be prejudice, but that has nothing to do with that flag or the TRUE meaning of it. i just don't like blacks period.
  • fine October 17, 2009 14:17:09
    fine

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    Its not really the point of the flag as it is the government keeps telling us what we can and cannot do this is not a democracy but communism
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    tbdmisba October 09, 2009 18:01:43
    tbdmisba

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    i agree im black and its just a flag. PLUS if anyone wold take the time to open a history book they would see that about 93000 blacks were in the conferderate army so....noone should be offended. its American heritage
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    rebelboy123 October 06, 2009 01:34:43
    rebelboy123

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    i think the confederate dose not stand for hate or slavery, i think it stands for heritage and how the south fought to pretect there land and how they lived there lives.
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    RebelIrish October 02, 2009 04:43:52 (edited)
    RebelIrish

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    Being Southern and educated, I am not offended, I am inspired. I revere my ancestors who fought for the right to govern themselves the way they saw fit, and not have the ideologies of others forced upon them. The big government we are all forced to deal with today is a direct result of the loss of States Rights. When the Feds can take State land away, and make the announcement from far away... "Houston, we have a problem"...I would prefer that the entire Nation not be controlled by the large number of fruits, nuts, and flakes in the States that are draining us dry through welfare to non-citizens, and free educations to those who dont even want to be Americans. P.S. the use of the word Redneck to derogitorily describe those of us who hail from the beloved South is no different than using the "N" word to describe someone who is black...blacks use the term in their own ranks, and we may use redneck in ours, but when used in the wrong context by the wrong people it is just as offensive.
  • Marie/M... RebelIrish October 02, 2009 18:14:18
    Marie/M2M2K

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    John October 01, 2009 22:04:06
    John

    Yes, the Confederate Flag offends me because...

    The flag itself doesn't offend me. But I wonder how imaginative are the people who wave it? Non-verbal communication is the most easily misunderstood of all our forms of communicating. Flags are waved for a purpose, and I've never heard a confederate battle-flag waver explicate his meaning to me in any way that didn't register as silly, or specious, or couldn't have been expressed in an infinitely more clever fashion.
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    John John October 01, 2009 22:05:51
    John
    p.s. i meant to click "undecided."
  • Marie/M... John October 01, 2009 23:10:08
    Marie/M2M2K
    No problem:)
  • Marie/M... John October 01, 2009 23:10:00
    Marie/M2M2K

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    Diamond Girl September 29, 2009 18:11:30
    Diamond Girl

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    confederate flag offend
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    Marie/M... Diamond... September 29, 2009 18:21:12
    Marie/M2M2K
    Absolutely! Thank you, Diamond Girl!

    absolutely diamond girl

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    alex canterbury September 29, 2009 16:26:55
    alex canterbury

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

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    Marie/M... alex ca... September 29, 2009 16:35:10
    Marie/M2M2K
    You're not funny.
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    Hawkeye alex ca... September 29, 2009 17:46:25
    Hawkeye
    I guess it's too late to vote but I will have my say anyway...LMAO..

    MANY people have the mistaken impression that a bunch of guys got together and held a meeting and in just a matter of hours,, they came up with the Constitution in a SINGLE sitting or that they were ALL of like minds when they formulated that lofty Document of Freedom....

    This could NOT be MORE wrong..
    MOST of what you see in the Constitution didn’t come to be simply by having someone come up with a Wonderfully Inspired Idea that EVERYBODY automatically agreed with..

    There were,, in fact,, extensive and lengthy debates over just about EVERY issue that was and IS covered in that revered text..

    ONE of the most controversial issues addressed was in the recognition of Authority with regard to the Federal and State Levels..

    MANY lessons learned from the Revolutionary War pointed to a NEED for a central government when Common defense was required..
    A variety of Disputes between differing Sovereign States with regard to Commerce and other issues ALSO pointed to this need…

    MANY people say that the Civil War was FOUGHT over this issue and I tend to agree EVEN though the War settled the issue of Succession but NOT the debate over States’ rights vrs. The Power of the Central or Federal Government..

    We ST...












    I guess it's too late to vote but I will have my say anyway...LMAO..

    MANY people have the mistaken impression that a bunch of guys got together and held a meeting and in just a matter of hours,, they came up with the Constitution in a SINGLE sitting or that they were ALL of like minds when they formulated that lofty Document of Freedom....

    This could NOT be MORE wrong..
    MOST of what you see in the Constitution didn’t come to be simply by having someone come up with a Wonderfully Inspired Idea that EVERYBODY automatically agreed with..

    There were,, in fact,, extensive and lengthy debates over just about EVERY issue that was and IS covered in that revered text..

    ONE of the most controversial issues addressed was in the recognition of Authority with regard to the Federal and State Levels..

    MANY lessons learned from the Revolutionary War pointed to a NEED for a central government when Common defense was required..
    A variety of Disputes between differing Sovereign States with regard to Commerce and other issues ALSO pointed to this need…

    MANY people say that the Civil War was FOUGHT over this issue and I tend to agree EVEN though the War settled the issue of Succession but NOT the debate over States’ rights vrs. The Power of the Central or Federal Government..

    We STILL have this debate today..
    MANY of our LAWS reflect this devide..our Constitution addresses this issue..

    I Look at the American flag as the one and ONLY flag of my beloved country while I look at the Confederate Flag NOT as a symbol of a single issue such as slavery or a single area such as the South.. No..It has TRANSCENDED both the ISSUE and the AREA..

    TODAY,, In the America that I now see,, it has become a SYMBOL of that which IS and always has been Universally recognized from the beginning of this Republic.. From the FOUNDERS to the present day American..

    As a uniquely AMERICAN SYMBOL of the Constitutional LIMITATIONS of the Federal Government over it’s States and it’s INDIVIDUAL Citizens..

    it is the quintessential symbol of a FREE people with the RIGHT to dissent..

    The very SAME dissent exemplified from the FIRST shot of the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond.. and NEVER has it,, or something very much LIKE it,, been needed more then it is today...

    And THIS is the reason WHY the Confederate Flag does NOT Offend me..
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  • Marie/M... Hawkeye September 29, 2009 18:07:11
    Marie/M2M2K
    Actually, Hawkeye, it's not too late. This question is still opened. The person above you entered a very racial term. NASTY....That's why he was censored.

    I love your comment! It is wonderful, and I have to agree with about everything you said!! Thank you for commenting here!
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    Hawkeye Marie/M... September 29, 2009 18:13:58
    Hawkeye
    Yeah,,I SAW that..

    If my experiences are any judge,, that guy's probably a LIBERAL trying to MAKE this into a Racial thing so that he or she can point at it later...LMAO..

    Doesn't matter though..
    Whether he's the Bonafide racists or JUST a typical Gutless Liberal pretender America has OUTGROWN his ilk..
  • Marie/M... Hawkeye September 29, 2009 18:21:41
    Marie/M2M2K
    Thank God! And also:

    god

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    Ms. Mom - waiting for the ... September 25, 2009 22:11:03
    Ms. Mom -  waiting for the Judge's ruling

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    confederate flag offend
  • Marie/M... Ms. Mom... September 25, 2009 22:29:19
    Marie/M2M2K

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    lina September 03, 2009 01:25:15
    lina

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    No the Confederate does not offend me it is part of our American history.
  • Marie/M... lina September 03, 2009 01:27:36
    Marie/M2M2K
    True!

    true

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    PHS September 02, 2009 00:45:28
    PHS

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    The Confederate Flag represents many things to different people, but to me it represents states rights and the southern people standing up for what they believed. No it does not represent slavery since the great majority of people wjho fought for the south did not own slaves.
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    Marie/M... PHS September 02, 2009 00:50:21
    Marie/M2M2K
    Thanks! I completely agree!
    completely
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    seattleman September 01, 2009 00:03:30
    seattleman

    Undecided/None of the above. (please leave a comment)

    I don't jump to the conclusion that those that display the confederate flag are racist, or biggoted, but to me, it represents a way of life that was, and still is to a large extent, oppressive.

    The confederate flag being displayed at a government building, or government office would (and does) offend me. Only the US flag should fly there.......
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    Marie/M... seattleman September 01, 2009 01:48:49
    Marie/M2M2K

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    Hawkeye seattleman September 29, 2009 16:56:07
    Hawkeye
    "it represents a way of life that was, and still is to a large extent, oppressive."

    There are those today that say the SAME thing about the American Flag..

    No..it does NOT offend me..

    It represents many things to many people..Those that I know who own and fly one do NOT support Slavery any more then someone from Boston does.. But LIKE people from Boston,, they are PROUD of their unique culture..

    The focus on THIS SINGLE aspect of Southern Culture is the result of those who feel the need,, warrented or NOT,, to have an ICON to direct their hatred to,, Like the Swaztika..


    As far as I'M concerned,, if you REALLY want an example for an Icon of oppression and enslavement in the modern world,, LOOK to the U.S. WELFARE system..
  • Marie/M... Hawkeye September 29, 2009 17:42:06
    Marie/M2M2K
    GREAT comment, Hawkeye! Thank you!
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    deanna August 31, 2009 20:48:45
    deanna

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    i do not care at all
  • Marie/M... deanna August 31, 2009 21:09:35
    Marie/M2M2K

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    ben August 20, 2009 06:06:26
    ben

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    it doesnt ofend me cuz i believ in everythng it meant an still means
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    Yung August 17, 2009 19:44:07
    Yung

    Yes, the Confederate Flag offends me because...

    ok yes this is a symbol of how the confederate states were trying to gain independance and states rights from washington. however for me as an african american citizen, it is slightly offensive. many racists still use this flag as a symbol that they are above the "[...]" and it does offend many of us. however i see where your coming from and the way you are using it is not offensive in any way:)
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    Cornelius August 17, 2009 18:57:13
    Cornelius

    No, the Confederate Flag does not offend me because...

    It's one of the symbols of white pride. And because it offends libarastic faggots
  • Pepou Cornelius August 21, 2009 13:50:27
    Pepou
    I actually have one and I wipe my ass with it.
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