Putting Old Dixie Back Up

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[h=1]Student Sparks Debate With Dorm Room Confederate Flag[/h]
Published December 01, 2011
| Associated Press

OLUMBIA, South Carolina – A black U.S. college student who drew complaints for displaying a Confederate flag in his dorm room window said he sees the banner as a symbol of pride and not racism.

Byron Thomas, 19, said university officials asked him in late November to take the down the banner associated with pro-slavery secessionist forces during the 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War after students and parents complained. They have since told him he can put it back up.


"When I look at this flag, I don't see racism. I see respect, Southern pride," he said. "This flag was seen as a communication symbol" during the Civil War, he said.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/0...h-dorm-room-confederate-flag/?test=latestnews

:lol:

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

 

[Socrtease]

That flag was a battle flag. The actual flag of the CSA, also known as the stars and bars, looks like this

This was the flag of a nation that believe that blacks would never be the equals of whites.

This flag was the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia but became widely used in battle because the above flag became easily confused with the Union Flag in the heat of battle.

Personally, if someone wants to put that flag up, let him. Give him a Nazi Flag and an Argentinian flag as well. They are a couple of other countries that lost. I mean, if your going to fly the losers flag, you might as well build a collection.