The Confederate Flag and Southern Sensibilities ....

EmeraldGhost wrote:CAUTION!!!   Video below contains imagery of Southern heritage to which race-baiting liberal moonbats may take extreme faux-offense:

boards of FL wrote:


If the flag didn't symbolize racism to him, he is ignorant of history.  This is basically what I originally said.  Being black or being born in a different time doesn't mean that one is predisposed to understand history to a greater degree than anyone else.

Bob wrote:

boards of FL wrote:


If the flag didn't symbolize racism to him, he is ignorant of history.  This is basically what I originally said.  Being black or being born in a different time doesn't mean that one is predisposed to understand history to a greater degree than anyone else.

Of course it doesn't.  Any 30 year old white kid knows more about African American history than an African American themselves.  Especially an African American who grew up in the south before integration.
Why I bet they didn't even take a class in it in college like you did,  the ignorant sons of bitches.

Singer Tom Petty told Rolling Stone he was ignorant and "dumb" to use the Confederate flag as a backdrop for his Southern Accents tour in 1985.

"I was pretty ignorant of what it actually meant," Petty told the magazine. "It was on a flagpole in front of the courthouse, and I often saw it in Western movies. I just honestly didn't give it much thought, though I should have."

Petty said he supported the removal of the flag from the statehouse grounds and said the symbol "shouldn't represent us in any way."

"People just need to think about how it looks to a black person," he said. "It's just awful. It's like how a swastika looks to a Jewish person. It just shouldn't be on flagpoles."

PkrBum wrote:Lol bob... it must be nice to always think you know what's best for and in the best interest of the huddled masses.

Boards fancies himself part of the intellectual elite... entitled to reign over and police all peoples thoughts.

Between he and seagoat... we really don't have to say anything... they can see right into your soul like modern gods.

Bob wrote:Well first you used the term "musicians" (plural).  But then you told us what only one musician has to say.

In any case,  since Tom Petty was born in Gainesville,  that would qualify him to be a southerner (anything below Ocala is not actually the south).  And since he is a southerner,  I'll accept his personal opinion on it and no hard feelings.

• Slavery, though universally recognized as wrong & immoral today, was in fact legal under both Federal law & the US Constitution in the States where it existed.
  
  
• Secession was neither illegal nor treasonous... (Virginia & New York even reserved the right to secede in their initial ratifications of the US Constitution. Look it up.)  Secession was not made illegal until SCOTUS deemed it so in 1869 ... 4 years after the so-called "civil war."
  

Bob wrote:I dearly love black music and black musicians.  Always have.  And I also dearly love Santana's music.

But I'm not sure a hispanic musician or hispanics of any kind have a dog in the hunt on this confederate flag thing.

I'll be honest,  when it gets right down to it,  I really could care less about the confederate flag.  Bury the stupid thing if that's what makes you feel better.  Just don't try to take the southern music away from me too.  That will be over my dead body.

Bob wrote:I dearly love black music and black musicians.  Always have.  And I also dearly love Santana's music.

But I'm not sure a hispanic musician or hispanics of any kind have a dog in the hunt on this confederate flag thing.

I'll be honest,  when it gets right down to it,  I really could care less about the confederate flag.  Bury the stupid thing if that's what makes you feel better.  Just don't try to take the southern music away from me too.  That will be over my dead body.

2seaoat wrote:Bob....Rolling Stone does .....

2seaoat wrote:Bob....Rolling Stone does not even have them in the top fifty artists.....whatever floats your boat.....I liked them...they were soothing like elevator music on a hectic day, and that confederate flag and that southern rock thing......it drew the stupids.....so heck....its all Rock and Roll.....they collectively just were not that good but had some very talented musicians.....the band.......yawn.....could I get off on the fourth floor.

2seaoat wrote:Bob....Rolling Stone does not even have them in the top fifty artists.....so whatever floats your boat...