Alabama Councilman removes Confederate Flags from Confederate graves.

[sbl]

Is this the issue of "outside agitators," the term from the 1960s I remember for the civil right's workers? Southerners must have issues with the idea that someone needs to come down and straighten them out.

[Blair]

It goes back a lot farther than the 1960's.The original term was Political Appointees/Carpet baggers. But the Idea was the same.
Blair Taylor

[5 th Alabama Infantry]

meets the road in the "honoring our ancestors" argument. In order to maintain creditability here everybody who says the flag is NOT racist needs to react NOW.

You need to publicly and loudly says NO to these yahoos. Tell them to get lost, stay home, jump in a creek whatever. And if they DO come to town YOU need to launch a counter protest.

These guys have pushed their hate agenda under your flag for too long. Seize it back NOW or be prepared to be lumped in with them for eternity.

I am just one voice, but I think I speak for quite a few when I say without reservation to these kinds of people, “get lost, stay home, jump in a creek,” etc.


Elliott Cummings
Adjutant
Maryland Division
Sons of Confederate Veterans

[sbl]

Whether to rip you off or "enlighten" I can understand the reluctance to have unrequested outside help.

[Spinster]

Whether to rip you off or "enlighten" I can understand the reluctance to have unrequested outside help.

Give that Glousterman a cee-gar!

[tompritchett]

I'm asking you to publicly denounce them. Not on this board but in the papers of the town in question.

Now that is one of the best suggestions that I have seen come out of this discussion.

[sbl]

Tip O'Neil was right about politics being local.

[Danny]

I usually agree with Bob. In this case the suggestion to take back the Confederate flag begs the question of why don't we all take back the US flag from commercialism and groups that try to divide Americans.
Just sayin'.

The U.S. has a battle flag, Scott?

dw

[Danny]

Is this the issue of "outside agitators," the term from the 1960s I remember for the civil right's workers? Southerners must have issues with the idea that someone needs to come down and straighten them out.

...or from Antebellum times. Northerners had issues with "outside agitators" from the South acting on legislation that required Northerners to assist slave-catchers. That bit of bad legislation was intended to straighten them Northerners out, South couldn't just leave folks alone.

What goes around comes around.

dw

[sbl]

Pardon me for trying to be "nice."