---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
You see? Ignorance and bigotry aren't limited to race but can also be geographical in nature. Absolutely, that's part of what I'm sayin' and I'm guilty of it. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 8:29 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The south aint gonna rise again... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Scapegoating? Yes, remove that flag. Removing it now is an important act in the play of a large Dharma. Removing that flag is part and parcel of a public education in transcendent and inalienable rights in our long culture of equal rights for everyone in equal protection under communal law. That the rebel flag would be accepted and flown above in any public space of our governance along with our larger symbols of national and state flag shows a profound failure of some public leadership and education in greater public process and values. It is time to remove that old battle flag of ignorance from our public spaces of governance. I have to agree that the Confederate flag is pretty symbolic of ignorance and backwater mentality, at least to those who don't choose to display the thing. The South has enough trouble being taken seriously and the stereotypes abound with regard to the American southern states, including with me. At least the Yanks pretend to be more forward thinking and progressive, not living in the past romanticizing the time when the rebels fought valiantly for their right to slavery and God knows what other aberrational practices. I wonder how many Confederate flag waving Southerners would choose to secede from the Union. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Let's scapegoat the flag. Someone kills loads of people and likes the flag so the flag has to go. I guess that makes a certain twisted sense. And I thought the southerners had rehabilitated themselves by claiming slavery was going to be abolished anyway? That's Hollywood for you. I hope I'm still allowed to enjoy the Dukes of Hazzard... South Carolina governor calls for removal of Confederate flag from statehouse http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston South Carolina governor calls for removal of Confederate... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston Governor Nikki Haley makes abrupt about-face in wake of Charleston killings to call for removal of flag that has flown on statehouse grounds for 50 years View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/22/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston Preview by Yahoo
