Thread: What is your opinion of banning the rebel flag?

"My question to this....why is wearing one shirt ok for one group of people and not the other? I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I'm just curious."
I have wondered the same thing.
I feel like the flag is part of our history and banning the flag-is not going to change history and everything that happened-I do not really understand how the flag can represent rasism and why people are offended. What next get rid of all books that pertain to the past and everyone's history?
Edited to add: Every year the school has a mandatory paper that everyone has to write for the United Daughters of The Confederacy that is put in a contest plus counts for a grade.

Originally posted by JENNIFERCATLADY
ImaGApeach....thanks bunches for not flaming me! You may rememeber the post I did a couple weeks ago regarding my cousin and the t-shirt incidents. That's why asked that question.
But seriously folks, I would like to get everyone's take on that. Sorry for rambling!

Your Welcome lol
I was almost afraid to post this at all lol
Cause I figured I would be flamed
I still do not get that the schools mascot and team is "The Rebels"
and cannot wear a rebel flag shirt

Originally posted by AngelGrim
i don't live in the south, but I never really saw anything wrong with the flag, I never saw it as a racist thing, i always thought of it as the bad boy wanna be wild and drink and ride my bike where ever i want, ignore the parents and the law kind of flag.

Ditto.

SOUTHERN GAL AND VERY VERY VERY PROUD OF THE FLAG.


I see the flag as part of history, a part of something that many people believe in. I personally hate to see the news where it has been banned somewhere, and I am ashamed that it was took off our capitol. I am more ashamed in the people. The ones that think the flag is racist are in my mind, quiet uneducated. As many above have said, there were alot more issues to the war than slavery, although it was one, the flag does not in my mind represent this. In the time of the confederacy people in the south were seen as patriotic if they flew this flag, or one of the many used as battle flags in this war in their front yard. These days however if people fly the flag they are automatically thought of as racist.Though there is good reason for people to think this (seeing that there are over 600 racist groups that use the confederate flag)the people that fly or display the confederate flag in any way could just as well be displaying it as a SYMBOL OF HERITAGE.

It is because of these people that stay with their family tradition that the flag remains a strong part of American history. Thousands of people still look up to the flag as something that represents their past relatives and their Southern heritage. Without the flag and the story behind the flag, this country would probably have never shaped into the current United States that we ALL know of today.

thats about all I have to say...... pnut

Jolie is so right about the cause of war...I never fully understood this until I moved to the south. My hubby is a southern gentleman and on top of that has a degree in History...so I have learned much more about the war and the cause of war since knowing him...I really think that everyone should read history books written both in the North and in the South...seeing both sides allows the true reasons for the war to be seen...and I say let that flag wave and those whom don't like it well find another cause that truly matters. Flying a flag will kill no one and living in the past sure helps no one.