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Old 09-28-2002, 04:08 AM
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Well I dont break it up into regions untill other people do.
Sure I joke by calling my friends in the North Yankees... They call me a Cracker because their teacher told them that Southerners are Crackers.

But you see.... flying my Confederate Flag is like showing who I am, Where I live, and what my History is like. It's like a state flag. You fly it to show where you live and such. The simple pride in what you're family has been in.

Even if your father was a **** and he won many battles... wouldn't you be proud of him? I believe so because he is your father.

I'm not racist and I dont usally sterotype on regions. It just pisses me off when I respect Both America and Dixie and people diss me. So I diss them and as you can see... I show some logic to it.

Now I'm waiting for Banana boy to go, "OMFG YOU RACIST I HTE SYOU!" or something like that. Which is rather funny as he is doing somewhat the exact same thing he hates O_o
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Showing a Confederate flag does not mean you're racist.
It's just a symbol of the southern part of the United States. The Civil War wasn't about slavery until people started making rumours. It was about civil rights. Period.
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Old 09-28-2002, 04:44 AM
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Old 09-28-2002, 04:48 AM
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Oh my god I was born in Austarlia so I am a convict$%@%

I was born in Illinois so I must be a gangster drug dealer from Chicago!
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Old 09-28-2002, 05:38 AM
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Unfortunately, the Confederate Flag has been hijacked as a symbol of oppresion. It is most infamously recognized as a symbol of the KKK as a way of stating their belief that the Civil War should be refought and the south should maintain its right to own slaves in a plantation economy. It's unfortunate, it may even be innacurate, but that's the world we live in. The swastika was an indian symbol of luck or prosperity or something prior to its adoption by the National Socialist Party of Germany in the mid 1930s (You all know of what I speak, but the words are censored so I will not say them directly) - now it is in poor taste to continue its use. A more contemporary example, the American Flag has been a symbol of conservativism since the 60s, in defiance of hippies who valued peace over nationalism. It wasn't until September 11th when it returned to the mainstream as a symbol of support for all Americans, not just the nationalists or conservatives.

That's why people are giving you guff for the confederate flag. It's a symbol of the rebels, the south - an army of rich white landowners who were protecting their right to a slave-labor based plantation economy against the rich white factoryowners of the north. The war itself was meaningless, or rather, the battles were - in the end, the war was decided by the relative economies, and Industry won out over Agriculture.

If your point is that Agriculture Rox, fine. If your point is that Southern Culture is gentle and refined, just say so. If your point is not that the southern economic system was and is superior, however, I would not recommend continued use of that particular symbol, any more than I'd promote the use of the USSR flag to say "Russian Culture Rules!"

Incidentally, I was born in California and now live in Indiana, so I must be so depressed over my inability to surf out here that I screw cows. Or something.
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Old 09-28-2002, 05:45 AM
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Ok, lets get back on"Topic" Which is Graal legends" Or who or what you perceive them to be .
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Old 09-28-2002, 05:46 AM
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Old 09-28-2002, 06:11 AM
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I thought that flag of the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany was adopted from the Roman Empire, and that the flag had something to do with the rising sun or rising empire.
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Old 09-28-2002, 07:08 AM
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You can just call it the NSDAP.

And Tyhm, the Confederates weren't all rich landowners. I seem to recall that the poor supported the rebellion as well, though I may be long.
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Old 09-28-2002, 07:17 AM
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Old 09-28-2002, 07:22 AM
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Old 09-28-2002, 11:02 AM
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Back off topic - of course, and the poor of the north supported the war as well, and there were a few slaves on either side fighting under the belief that they would be freed for their efforts, though they weren't treated decently by either side. But as always, it was the rich that declared and directed the war. Just like the American Revolutionary War was a bunch of rich white colonial guys who didn't want to pay their taxes verses a bunch of rich white nationalist guys who didn't want to pay their taxes neither.

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Old 09-28-2002, 12:51 PM
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Old 09-29-2002, 05:24 AM
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what about Fox and Deviltrunks?!?!?!
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Old 10-02-2002, 07:45 AM
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*bump* anyways i never put my voice in so.....

NO BODY LOVES ME!!!!!

Anyways
lets see on my ebil list goes Antago and Lycia curse them to hell.

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Old 10-02-2002, 07:58 AM
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Actually, I am learning about the North-South controversies now. The prime cause of the civil war WAS slavery and political beliefs. The southern leaders of the states were Democrats and WERE RICH. They decided to secede. Nearlly 70% of all states excluding Virginia and South Carolina did not want to secede. The political people decided it for them.
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