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​Never said they were. You misunderstood my point.  If these were white security guards, there would be riots.

​and what if they were Asian or Hispanic? 

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Good ones or bad ones? 

Budget constraints???

I wonder if we will be cutting back on entitlements due to budget constraints?

One of the few things the fed gov should be funding properly, they are cutting.

​What time period are you referring to the north having slaves. 1990's 1870's 1860's, 1850's, etc?

obama bows to another dictator.   Another example of obama, "if it's against America, then I'll bow down (literally and figuratively) to it!"

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Who is not interested?  As usual the mainstream media is not covering it much.  Most conspicuously absent are the two Rev's, Al & Jesse.  Seriously, I know they're primarily in it for the money, but why don't they go there and help?  Forget the cameras and the money, just go & do what you can.  

Like old Cool Hand Luke said, "Just talking to myself".  

Back on topic.....most people viewed the show to get a glimpse of Daisy in her Daisy Dukes, not to drink beer and scream that the south's gonna do it again. How about some of you just put on your man pants and grow up. 

 

​If yall wanna put that flag on a PRIVATE war memorial funded by private donations, so be it.

​Hmmm! And why did the South feel they were not being represented fairly? 

I have a question to my white rebel brothers on the forum: 

For those whites, especially the po' whites, why did yall ancestors fight for the South?

​If yall wanna put that flag on a PRIVATE war memorial funded by private donations, so be it.

From the photos in the article, it appears that all of the victims are either Hispanic or black. One was a 7 year old child. In that case the father is a known gang member with 45 previous arrests and is said not to be cooperating with the police in trying to find the killer of his child.

I am curious at what point black lives matter.  Is it only determined by the race or occupation of the person who did the killing (even if entirely legal)? 

I think that is the point of people posting these kinds of articles. Is it selective outrage when people from a particular ethnic group can be slaughtered on a regular basis and essentially ignored but let the person responsible be a racist or police officer and it becomes a national incident requiring a presidential response?

I believe even though the flag is on Capital grounds, it is on a war memorial. That is history and I see no problem with that. It was already taken off the Capital building in 2000.

 

 

I've said over and over you can hang your flag wherever you want Just keep it away from State Capitols/Public grounds. but the right and most whites will never have a reasonable perspective.

I understand the push to take the Confederate flag down at the South Carolina and Alabama state capitols. But the Dukes? Really?

 

I get that to a lot of people in this country, the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of racism - it's hard for black Americans not to interpret it that way when some of the most famous pictures of the most vehement racists of the twentieth century, like George Wallace, feature massive Confederate flags flying all over the place. The internet is covered with images of the flag at KKK rallies, past and present.

 

But I also get that to millions of Southerners, many of whom are black as well, the flag is a symbol of Southern regional pride. To them, it's meant to identify a particular region, not a racial superiority complex. Charlie Daniels wrote one of the most interesting pieces I've read about this particular issue, in which he talked about growing up in the South during the 1930s, when most people in the United States looked down on the region and its inhabitants. To him, the flag symbolized the pride Southerners held in stark defiance of the condescending views adopted by Americans in other regions of the country. In the same way that the South has embraced the "redneck" persona despite the term's once pejorative connotation, the flag, to many Southerners, was a way to maintain some sort of pride while being looked down upon by everyone else - this is literally the exact same reason college football is so big in the South (seriously, look that up). This is true among even some of the most liberal Southerners; one of my best friends while in Alabama, who was so far left he bordered on communist, owned a Confederate flag and proudly espoused his Southern identity.

 

I think the key element the media has missed in this debate is the context in which the flag and other Confederate symbols are used. Is the flag a symbol of racism at a KKK rally? Undoubtedly, but the American flag arguably is as well in those instances - after all, they're exercising their genuinely American right to free speech while calling for a purely white America, not just a white South. Is it a symbol of racism at bubba's fish camp up by the lake when he has it flying while he's kicked back on the front porch with a six pack? No, it's a symbol of a redneck telling the world that he's a redneck, that he enjoys being a redneck and that he likes to do redneck things and have good redneck times in a redneck part of the country. Is it a symbol of racism in a museum, in a textbook or at a reenactment of a Civil War battle? No, it's a symbol of one of the defining periods of American history, in which our character, unity and integrity as a nation were defined for generations to come.

 

Is it a symbol of racism on top of the General Lee? No, it's a symbol of the rebelliousness that's embodied by the main characters, Bo and Luke Duke, while they're speeding down the highway at a hundred miles an hour, causing problems for the local sheriff, foiling the plans of the local corrupt political boss, straightenin' the curves and flattenin' the hills. Seriously, was the show racist? Absolutely not. Did any one of the characters on the show espouse anything even remotely racist for one second of air time? No. They never even came close.

 

Is it a symbol of racism at the statehouse in South Carolina, where Strom Thurmond served as Governor and made numerous stump speeches advocating hardline segregationist policies? Yes, and it has no place being flown on the grounds of a capitol that should be open to all, that once voted to suppress the rights of millions of black South Carolinians, and that only ever started flying the flag as a protest against civil rights during the 1960s. Is it a symbol of racism at the statehouse down in Alabama, where George Wallace famously made several openly racist speeches, where Jefferson Davis himself oversaw the affairs of the Confederacy while the capitol of the short-lived nation was located in Montgomery during the early days of the Civil War, and which hundreds of black protesters were repeatedly barred from approaching during the marches from Selma? To argue that it isn't, and that it shouldn't come down as a result, would be asinine. Is its brother, the first national flag of the Confederacy, a symbol of racism at the capitol in Austin, where it flies alongside the flags of the five other nations of which Texas has been a part during its history? No, it's a symbol of the reverence with which Texans view their history - good and bad parts alike - just like it is when it flies next to those same five flags outside the Texas Historical Commission, and just like the seal of the Confederacy is when placed next to the seals of the United States, Mexico, France and Spain as those five seals encircle the seal of the Republic of Texas on the floor of the rotunda inside the capitol building.

 

Context, folks. Context. I think most Americans - black, white and whatever other color - understand that. I think the media analysts and fringe elements, who are just about the only ones pushing this issue, don't. Maybe that's why they're all so surprised when they see the results of opinion polls like the one below:

 

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Leave the Duke boys alone. They were never meanin' no harm, and they didn't do anybody any either.

@NYDailyNews: Vandals sprayed racist messages on the truck of a white family with black guests in Texas.

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Welcome to 2015

Good question... amazing how all this disingenuous contempt has surfaced over a TV show that has no shred of racism in it.

@BBCSport: Bubba Watson to paint over flag on his Dukes of Hazzard car amid growing backlash

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