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struggle4progress

(118,034 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 01:05 AM Sep 2015

What of Confederate 'heritage' is worthy of pride?

Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:10 am

As a lifelong resident of Christiansburg and a graduate of Christiansburg High School, I feel compelled to comment on recent issues surrounding the display of the Confederate flag on school grounds.

I don't know what it's like to live in a country where my ancestors were bought and sold like property, forced to work in inhuman conditions, and beaten, whipped and abused ...

I don't know what it's like to live in a country where my ancestors were hunted down and lynched ... simply because of their skin color.

But I imagine it would be a hard thing to "just get over" ...


http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/letters/lloyd-what-of-confederate-heritage-is-worthy-of-pride/article_447703de-a01c-5e3b-bcd3-19d9be5d05e8.html

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What of Confederate 'heritage' is worthy of pride? (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP
none of it Skittles Sep 2015 #1
I wish Southern heritage get the red out Sep 2015 #2

get the red out

(13,459 posts)
2. I wish Southern heritage
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 05:38 AM
Sep 2015

Would be a thing instead. I used to feel good about being a Southerner until so many of my fellows went crazy. We have accepted that traitors' flag for too long.

I am proud of people like my great-grandmother who would leave her family temporarily to care for a sick person who had no one.

There are a lot of good people here, some of the most giving people I know have been swayed to support this bullshit. They don't have horns growing out of their heads all the time. It makes me sad.

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