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“What tradition does the Confederate flag represent? Is it slavery, rape, genocide, treason, or all of the above?”

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Wordslinger

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"What tradition does the Confederate flag represent? Is it slavery, rape, genocide, treason, or all of the above?"
Hakeem Jeffries (CBS News)

New York Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries stood on the House floor Thursday afternoon and delivered a blistering indictment of his Republican counterparts for refusing to support a bill that would have banned the flying the Confederate battle flag on National Park Service grounds.

“Earlier this week, Congressman Jared Huffman and I introduced collectively three amendments whose purpose was to prohibit the use of federal funds connected with the purchase, sale or display of the Confederate battle flag,” he said.

As of Tuesday, Republicans were supporting the bill. “It appeared that House Republicans were prepared to do the right thing and help to banish this symbol of racial hatred and oppression,” he said, before adding, “but then the ghosts of the Confederacy apparently invaded the Republican conference.”

By not supporting the amendments, Republicans are legitimizing the battle flag and what it represents, about which Jeffries asked a powerful question: “What exactly is the tradition the Confederate battle flag is meant to represent? Is it slavery, rape, kidnapping, genocide, treason, or all of the above?”

“I get chills standing here next to it,” Jeffries said, “Because the red in this flag is a painful reminder of the blood that was shed by Africans who were killed when they kidnapped and thrown into the institution of slavery. The red on this flag is a painful reminder of the millions of Africans who died in the Middle Passage.”

“The red on this flag,” he said, choking up, “is a painful reminder of the blood that was shed by African-American slaves who were beaten, raped, lynched and killed here in America as a result of the institution of slavery.”

“So what exactly is the tradition the Confederate battle flag represents?” Jeffries asked. He reminded the assembled House that they were elected to be leaders, not “people who cower in fear of some narrow-minded Americans who aren’t aware the South lost the war 150 years ago.”

Watch Representative Jeffries’ speech on the House floor via CBS News

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/09/what_tradition_does_the_confederate_battle_flag_represent_is_it_slavery_rape_genocide_treason_

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

This one is stained with far more innocent blood....
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2seaoat



This one is stained with far more innocent blood....

And the blood of butchers and oppressors.......its organizing principles are freedom and equality, while the terrorist flag is hate and slavery.  It is the those same Dixiecrats who will cry the loudest as their military bases are being shut down and their verbose historical position to kill innocents in foreign lands.....yes evil is quantifiable.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

2seaoat wrote:This one is stained with far more innocent blood....

And the blood of butchers and oppressors.......its organizing principles are freedom and equality, while the terrorist flag is hate and slavery.  It is the those same Dixiecrats who will cry the loudest as their military bases are being shut down and their verbose historical position to kill innocents in foreign lands.....yes evil is quantifiable.

Ask the world who the biggest terrorist is...it flies your flag...

2seaoat



Now that is funny.....how do you ask the world......put a coffee cup to your ear and kneel to the ground and ask....hey world....who is the biggest terrorist?

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

A DIRECTOR OF THE NSA SAID IT BEFORE WE EVEN GOT DRONES
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/is-america-the-worlds-largest-sponsor-of-terrorism.html

The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom – noted:

Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

Odom also said:

By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.

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