I've seen plenty of confederate flags on vehicles, or should I say on pickup trucks with monster truck tires and CB antennas, but never flying in front of anyones house. That leads me to believe its not a matter of southern pride but rather a cowardly act of expression. You say this guy put his flag on his truck at the gas station, about 5 miles from the venue, why wouldnt he have it flying all the time? Sounds like a poser to me.
Ha ha! I never thought of that! Yeah, why would he wait until surrounded by other rednecks to put his flag out? (and it was a HUGE flag on a little bitty pickup truck). I think you're right by people being posers at country music concerts. People also choose to suddenly love John Deere and cowboy hats! I'm not against the cowboy hat thing. I like a man in a cowboy hat. :lol:
Oh, I believe it, for sure! My hubby was raised on a farm with 3 brothers, and believe me, they worked hard, from a very young age, for nothing really. (yes, food and shelter, I know!) But it's just what was expected. I know it's not the same as being a slave, not saying it is, just refering to the post above about having children instead of slaves to get the work done!
well the wulf and I finally agree on something. If you want Johnston County to seem like Manhattan or San Francisco....go take a ride through Gallipolis, Ohio.
How many American flags do you see flying on the front of one's house? Are they posers? Maybe people don't fly Confederate flags because they know people like you and other yankess will assume it's a symbol of hate? As I said earlier, the hate groups (Klan et.al) ruined the flag.
A redneck when get educated becomes a liberal. It's funny that this guy (an ex redneck) in my company said he decided to go to college because when graduated from high school he realized his family farm isn't big enough to support him and his brother. Now he's very open minded, still a fiscal conservative but social liberal.
See, ya'll are talking like being a "redneck" is a bad thing. I prefer Jeff Foxworthy's interpretation as a redneck being someone with a glorious lack of sophistiation. There are many theories as to how the term came to be, but it isn't necessarily a bad to be a redneck. I still have relatives who farm for a living and don't get out much, but I'll be darned if they aren't some of the most loving, giving people you will ever come across. Try not to lump everyone from the south who doesn't sit around drinking Starbucks as a backwards, racist, group. It's offensive. 8)
I should have dumbed-down my statement for you, I said the guy is a poser because he chooses to fly the confederate flag only in select company. If it were a matter of pride he wouldnt care what other people thought and fly it everywhere. And yes, the hate groups have ruined the flag to the point that anyone who flies one obviously is making a statement thats universally understood, like it or not. Like I said before, its a cowardly act of expression.
you can try to tell me what my flag means all you want, and you can try to tell me that i mean something i don't, but that doesn't make it true. how would you react if someone who obviously didn't know what the hell they were talking about walked up to you and defined your symbol of pride as something that was abhorrent, but based it purely on misinformation? would you just accept that and say "oh, sorry, i'll stop having pride in my symbol because you have no idea what it stands for"? i doubt it. maybe it's people who fly the flag that are educated on the realities of the war and the symbols, and maybe it's the idiots who are so closed minded as to not be willing to even hear the facts that are the cowards...
It has nothing to do with me not knowing the facts. It has to do with respect to the black lady sitting in her car next to the truck with the flag. I was embarrassed. Maybe that's just my problem. That's who I am. No amount of facts will change the look in her eye and the shame in mine. Like I said, I hate the flag. You have your opinion. I have mine.
OK, look at this way............you weren't flying the flag! If that lady thinks all whites are racist, then she is racist. You are not responsible for what other people do, now or in the past. I can't help what happened hundreds or 50 or 20 years ago. Does that make me a racist? No! I'm terribly sorry about what happened, but I am not personally responsible. I'm only responsible for my own actions and to raise my son to be the best person he can be regardless of the color of his skin.
:iagree: (of course by being JoCo conservatives we are automatically racist in some people's eyes 8))
No kidding! And according to Drdan, I'm ignorant to boot!! Coming from him, I will consider that a compliment. :jester:
No, you misunderstood me. The lady wasn't mad at all. She smiled at me. I was ashamed of what was flying a few feet away from her. Sorry if I don't express myself well sometimes. I know or would hope that she wouldn't think all whites are racist. I just felt embarrassed being a white person, seeing that flag. I can't help the way I felt. I had a lump in my throat and I wanted to cry. To me, it was like a slap in her face and she was dignified enought to smile at me regardless.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I have no idea what she thought or what the guy flying the flag thought. I just know how it affected me. I've always been super-sensitive when it come to that flag. Maybe I'm just prejudiced because, like I said before, everyone I've ever met who had the flag or his or her car or at their house in or their yard were, in fact, racists. Having said that, I'm sure that there are some people that are proud of the flag and are not racists. I hope I've made that clear now. I was strictly stating my experience yesterday and what the flag represents TO ME.
