Is this really appropriate for this board? Let it go. An issue this polarizing is best left alone. You can ramble on all you want about what it means to you, but that does not change the fact that it means something very different to somebody else. There are about a million other topics that are more important, more relevant and have a greater impact on your life. Worry about those. If you need something trivial to be passionate about, you always have sports. There, now everybody go talk about football.
I agree. All these damn whiners that are screaming for change should do just that...leave it the hell alone. It's only an issue when they bring it up. Fact is, it didn't 'mean' anything different to anyone else until the Yankees and ACLU began raising a fuss about it. Hey buddy, how's worrying about what other people are worrying about for an insignificant, irrelevant topic? We don't need you to tell us with which issues we should concern ourselves. You don't have to participate in the conversation if others doing so bothers you.
Unfortunately, though, hate groups such as the KKK and Nazi's have egregiously abused the flag and assumed it to symbolize something other than self-sovereignty...namely, white supremacy. Ignorance and bigotry have comandeered and soiled its image. It's easy to understand how such unintelligent folk can make such a gross misinterpretation when you consider exactly how skewed the perception of that portion of our nations history has become.
No he ain't. He's a little guy dressed up like Colonel Sanders. I've never seen photograph of a confederate colonel wearing a white linen suit and a string tie. This is really a PC stretch. Maybe the chickens would object. It minimizes their trauma.
They fly the U.S. flag right next to the Confederate Battle Flag... so I dont buy the kkk symbolism deal...
It definitely does not represent the KKK, but they still use it in their marches and assemblies. The flag then drags that God-awful connotation with it everywhere else it goes after that.
The whole Colonel Reb controversey is as bad as the NCAA wanting schools with Indian nicknames or mascots to change. I'm glad to see some schools not to capitulate under the "politically correctness" police. The worst example of the whole mascot melee has to be Marquette University, who used to be known as the Warriors then changed to Golden Eagles and now I believe are going by the Gold. I recently heard a MU alum offered to give the University a huge monetary donation if it would change the name back to Warriors, but the idiots didn't. Heck in our own backyard, every so many years the PC Police try to get Nicholls State University to change its nickname of the Colonels to something else. They were successful in getting the NSU Admin to get rid of "Tillou" the Colonel mascot but not the nickname Colonels. Two things that are highly ironic about the Nicholls deal is that the university is named for Francis Tillou Nicholls, who was a Confederate general who lost both an arm and a leg in the Civil War and went on to be the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Secondly, the University sits on land that was part of the Acadia Plantation and it owns the Rienzi Plantation House which is just across Bayou Lafourche. You don't see the folks at Purdue wanting to get rid of the Boilermakers nickname, which was originally a derogatory name imposed on Purdue students by those students from the liberal arts Wabash College. This whole shenanigans has gotten waaaaay out of whack!
The Ole Miss student athletes(most are black) don't want to see a Confederate flag flying at sporting events. Although I wish those necks would go back to the confederate flag... It just fits them so well........ always stuck in the past
