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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA giant Confederate flag went up in the Ozarks. One woman answered with this billboard
After a giant Confederate flag was erected this past winter along a popular route to the Lake of the Ozarks, Amanda Burrows of Tuscumbia, Missouri, felt compelled to respond.
The flag, she believes, is an outdated symbol of racism.
I didnt think it was appropriate that the flag would be allowed to speak for everyone in this community, Burrows said. After being angry about it but not being constructive for several months, I noticed that the billboard in the direct line of sight of the flag was available.
That has led to her putting up a billboard with the anti-racist message of EQUALITY BIGGER THAN HATE. She wanted tourists and visitors to know that Confederate flag does not represent all of us.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-confederate-flag-went-ozarks-214716853.html
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,181 posts)and that by far more Missourians are nothing like this idiot who put up this idiotic, unpatriotic flag, instead of a U.S. Flag.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)You lost once, you'll lose AGAIN.
Good on her tho.
AllaN01Bear
(18,569 posts)nilram
(2,894 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Yeah, pride in their history of taking up arms against the USA in defiance of efforts to outlaw them owning other human beings. Not exactly exonerating. Flying the battle flag of that fight is anti-patriotic and that damning fact ought to be repeated every time that symbol of oppression appears.
ProfessorGAC
(65,277 posts)The flag represents everything you wrote, but it also represents losing a war THEY started.
It's a flag of hate, and of failure.
moose65
(3,169 posts)They almost had a mini-Civil War within their state between Unionists and Confederate sympathizers. Why celebrate something that almost tore your state apart, as well as the country??
ProfessorGAC
(65,277 posts)Which throws the "heritage" nonsense out the window.
Still a flag that represents losing.
BumRushDaShow
(129,707 posts)Kudos to her!!
erronis
(15,390 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,707 posts)wnylib
(21,675 posts)sells a tote bag for $25 that says "There is no place here for hate."
I bought a t-shirt in a discount store that has a heart on the front and says, "In world full of hate, be kind."
In addition to big signs, there are many ways to carry the message every day.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts): friking lost--get over it! Would that be too mean?
hi:
Paz
wnylib
(21,675 posts)But you could only read it if it was fully open in the wind.
What about a flag with the GOP elephant on it and the word "loser" in big letters? Easier to read one big word on a flag than a whole phrase or sentence.
niyad
(113,638 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,117 posts)Article III, section 3 of the U. S. Constitution defines treason: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
The Confederate states levied war against the United States with their attack on Fort Sumter, the attack acknowledged as the beginning of the war. Had those who committed treason been held accountable after the war instead of being allowed to live free lives with the opportunity to re-cast the war as one about states rights rather than slavery, we would likely not have this glorified version of history today. Reconstruction was an utter failure because white people wanted it to fail. And today, we have a Republican Party made up primarily of white people who still glorify the Confederacy because it exalted white people over all other races. The people who worship the Confederacy today essentially still believe in slavery and the right of white people to subjugate all others and to nullify all rights but theirs.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)A bag or a shirt that says
A WORD TO ALL RACIST REPUBLICANS...
BE GONE!
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)the Confederacy and its flag, statues etc., are willing to be the slaves this time.
keithbvadu2
(36,968 posts)Bo Zarts
(25,405 posts)Do I hear an amen?
Amen!
mizogan
(40 posts)These quotes were found at https://www.bustle.com/articles/96114-robert-e-lee-and-jefferson-davis-wanted-the-confederate-flag-to-come-down-in-the-1800s
"I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army
"My pride is that that flag shall not set between contending brothers; and that, when it shall no longer be the common flag of the country, it shall be folded up and laid away like a vesture no longer used." Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,785 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,785 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(9,911 posts)hadEnuf
(2,221 posts)We have largely ignored the treasonous symbols and rhetoric coming from the pockets of assholes in various areas, especially the south where it all began.
Now, instead of laughing at goofballs "still fighting the Civil War 150 years later", we are seeing politicians of that persuasion seizing power, violence or threats of violence against people who oppose them and we even had an attempted coup in Washington DC with many of the insurrectionists parading around Confederate flags. They also have a de facto "president" in Donald Trump.
These people are not Americans, they are Confederate traitors once again raising their ugly heads. If I recall correctly, Confederate congressmen and senators were expelled after the Civil War.
Maybe we need to start "fighting the Civil War" in a sense again too.