This entire issue over the CBF is disingenuous. It only came up on the tail of the recent shooting. Before that almost no one said anything about it. The whole issue only serves to raise emotions and grow the hate within the racebaiters.
Whitewash: New Texas history books will downplay slavery, omit KKK and Jim Crow
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Zaac, Jul 7, 2015.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Just displaying your agenda driven ignorance.
Poor little white kid railing against the privilege you were born into. :laugh:
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As you like to say, "Prove it."
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The flag in SC went up on April 11, 1961, for the opening of the Civil War centennial at the request of Aiken Rep. John A. May. It was moved from Capital Dome to a nearby Confederate memorial as a compromise.
"The problems we face don't have anything to do with the flag."
"The flag is a symbol that means a lot of things to a lot of people... The challenge for us is not to wipe out our past history but to learn to live together in the future." -
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Daniel Hollis, a member of the commission responsible for planning South Carolina’s Confederate War Centennial, recalled the exact day the flag was first hoisted during an interview published in 1999.
Hollis said the flag itself went up on April 11, 1961, for the opening of the Civil War centennial "at the request of Aiken Rep. John A. May." -
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Not everyone agrees with you. Maybe you are too young to remember those days and the violence and hatred exhibited in the South during the early days of integration.
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And right here is where you went off track. It hasn't faded. No matter how much folks in the United States want to say it's faded, it hasn't. It's changed its form.
DO you really think that the media would treat black criminals significantly differently from white criminals and, as a result, causes significant racial biases if it had faded?
Do you recall the deathbed confessions from the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater? In Atwater’s confession, he reportedly admitted the GOP used certain code words to gain white votes by playing off of their fears of Black people. Racism continues to be conditioned into the minds of the culture.
You don't have a culture where the lives of black people are continuously marginalized and undervalued and think that racism has really faded. It hasn't.
When parents have to be scared out of their minds just like they were on plantations and in their homes during Jim Crow because they could never have a peace about whether or not their black child is gonna return home safely, it hasn't faded.
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