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Au contraire, Mr. Westmoreland. Representative Lewis and everybody else knows exactly where you’re coming from.
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“Those red and blue scarves aren’t hate symbols,” said the representative from Compton. “They’re just being misused.”
The head of the Bloods agreed. “Gee golly, Officer Krumpke, you gotta understand, it’s just our bringing up-kee that’s got us out of hand,” he said. Added the head of the Crips in another interview, “Juvenile delinquency is really a social disease. Hey, I gotta social disease!”
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As I’ve noted in other venues, some of my relatives were Austrians who fought for Nazi Germany. I’m sure they were very brave and probably had redeeming qualities, but I’m not going to fly the flag of Nazi Germany to honor them.
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“[A] majority of people that actually died in the Civil War on the Confederate side did not own slaves.”
And, yet, every last one of them did commit treason.
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But a majority of people that actually died in the Civil War on the Confederate side did not own slaves. These were people who were fighting for their states.
Against the lawful, democratically elected government of this country resulting in the deaths of some 300,000 United States soldiers.
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“You can’t make an excuse for the things that happened. But a majority of people that actually died in the Civil War on the Confederate side did not own slaves. These were people who were fighting for their states. I don’t think they even had thoughts about slavery.”
Its that “War of Northern Aggression” angle again. “We were just minding our own business when them Yankees came down here and started making war on us poor innocent Southerners.”
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“If somebody wants to go honor their descendent with a flag on a
Confederate memorial day, I don’t see that being a problem,”
Westmoreland said.
Man, he’s as stupid as he is dumb.
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¨Westmoreland also responded to the criticisms made by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) that the flag was a racist symbol.
“The question is does he understand where I’m coming from?” Westmoreland said, when a reporter asked if he understood where Lewis was coming from. “If I believe it comes from heritage, does he understand why, where I’m coming from?”
Oh, I’m sure Lewis knows exactly where you’re coming from. After all, he grew up in the Jim Crow South - he saw plenty of your type.
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“But I have never thought of it as a racist flag.”
And that’s precisely the problem. You, and the culture you have grown up in have so normalized white privilege, white control as a cultural given, that even symbols created and explicitly used to oppose racial integration and racial equality, whose “heritage” is to literally take up arms and go to war against the United States over the defense of slavery… that you can’t see the screaming obvious.
Does anyone for a second think it would be normal, justified or “not racist” if Germans in the 21st century were defending and insisting on flying the Nazi flag as some sort of cultural heritage?
They really are so steeped in mythology, denial, myopia and bigoted thinking that they can’t even see it or help themselves.
Astonishing.
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That’s right, Lynn! All those clodhoppers meant to go into battle behind a big See N Say on a pole but they misunderstood Lee’s instructions.
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“I haven’t given it much thought”
Hell of a way to go through life –
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“…does he understand why, where I’m coming from?”
Sure. You are coming from the land where people cower in fear that their base won’t vote for them if they say anything bad about the Traitors’ Rag.
THAT’S where you’re coming from.
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What do you mean the South started the war? That’s now how we (want) to remember it.
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It’s a white flag used by whites during a civil war by people in the south who wanted slavery. You are a pure f@@@@@g idiot and racist.
I wonder if this has anything to do with it?
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I’m sure he said the same thing in regards to Iraqis and Afghani’s who were fighting us solely because we invaded their country. I mean, in those cases, it made sense since we really were invaders, yet Republicans continually considered them all to be terrorists who deserve to be tortured and killed.
So if he’s defending treasonous Confederate soldiers who were defending their state’s desire to keep humans as slaves, then surely he defends Iraqi and Afghan fighters who were defending their homeland, right?
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“I haven’t given it much thought because it’s something in the South you kind of grow up being around”
Just like Racism…
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He may agree… If it wasn’t for their religion, and skin tone.
From the party of…
“I’m not a scientist but…”
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