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And doesn't change a thing I said. If you are doing to start calling people and states and countries evil because of slavery at the time then you go a long list to go down and implying that the South of today is evil because of slavery 150 years is is simply unfair and untrue.

 

And the British and the French and the Spanish were up to their eyeballs in it and they profited from the slave economy they created here just as Northern states did so stop trying to point fingers just at the South as if the South invented slavery and brought the slaves here in the first place.

"It is estimated that more than half of the entire slave trade took place during the 18th century, with the British, Portuguese and French being the main carriers of nine out of ten slaves abducted in Africa.[38] By the 1690s, the English were shipping the most slaves from West Africa.[39] They maintained this position during the 18th century, becoming the biggest shippers of slaves across the Atlantic.[40] By the 18th century, Angola had become one of the principal sources of the Atlantic slave trade.[41]"

 

If the site of any symbol causes one to be violent, the symbol is not the problem. Perhaps they would feel more comfortable wearing a Lincoln shirt with a quote on if could save the union without freeing a single slave!

 

When I was youngster, when I played football, it was a rather common occurance, the coach would call out, "gather round, everyone take a knee."

Before every game, the slow kids wanted us all to take a knee, so they could pray.

Taking a knee, is a football thing. But then, the spectator class doesn't see those things.

 

The South was still lynching people into the 1960's.

The Civil War ended slavery. It didn't end the extreme racism.

 

taking a knee when huddling with the couch is so everyone would be able to see the coach when he was speaking he wouldn't be lost in the crowd
it wasn't because of any symbolism or tradition it was for practicality

 

ok, so your a RINO that doesn't support the war on drugs? or those that support the war on drugs are RINO's in your opinion?

 

That is totally false. But the hate on the left is a reality. And all their allies who hate are too. even calling for the death of babies.
Don't worry what your hoping for is probably going to happen but I don't think you'll be as pleased as you think you will.
Once you have turned this nation over to the largest group of minority here now you will wish you'd been wiser.

 

You just want to argue and blame instead of debate so cool down or don't exspect a reply.

 

doesn't change my opinion of Confederate flag, a couple black people could wear a kkk outfit too and would not change my opinion of the kkk

the fact was the reason they were kneeling was because of the suggestion of a VET, that is what started it

 

and today we have more blacks killing whites per year then whites that have killed blacks
couldn't we contribute that to racist blacks?

 

and one or two vets coming out saying kneeling during the anthem isn't offensive that you liberal always bring up doesn't make it not so either

 

most of that is gang related, war on drug related

but yes, we still have racist whites and racists blacks in this county...

 

I did not say that, I said the reason they were kneeling at all is cause a VET suggested they do that - it was their respect for the VETS that they did it

Trump is disrespecting the flag by trying to use it as something to divide us

 

but in the vast majority of cases that someone white does kill someone black it almost always gets contributed to racism

 

so that some how doesn't or shouldn't make it offensive to the vast majority of other vets

 

had Trump not of used the flag to divide people it would not have, Trump is a devicive President that doesn't care about anyone but himself

Trump saw black people protesting about bad cops and thought to himself, how can I attack these black SOB's as he called them - real Presidential?

 

It didn't end it much of anywhere what's your point? And into the 1960's

"The last documented mass lynching occurred in Walton County, Georgia, in 1946, when two war veterans and their wives were killed by local white landowners."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

After that there were a few isolated criminal murders.

Too bad the Democrats opposed anti-lynching laws for so long.

 

you actually think people are offended over kneeling during the anthem is because Trump told them to be offended?
the divisive action was the kneeling not the being offended by it

that's like saying the divisiveness wasn't because he wore a confederate flag shirt the divisiveness was the people being offended by him wearing it

 

And I wanna know who was polled there, because based on the fact that the link itself said the issue was divided by race, I'm certain that first poll was done mostly with whites in mind. That second one might be more varied but I wanna know who did they poll.

Wait, never mind, again that one link did give me some answers.

Three-quarters of blacks see it as racism, but three-quarters of whites don't, unsurprising. And nearly three-quarters of blacks don't have an issue with protesting. Pretty damn telling when most whites are extra butthurt with protesting during the anthem but none at all with the Confederate flag.

Oh, and as for that double standard you claim exists, I'd suck it up if I were you. Folks don't wanna see that flag anywhere, get over it.

 

And we all hate the KKK and as far back as the 1960's they had become a laughing stock even in the South. The last rallies they held in Mississippi and in Georgia they could barely get a van full of people to attend.
Why do you guys give them so much credibility these days as if the entire South was full of white hoods and burning crosses every weekend?

 

and your point is?
I'm sure if you make a poll about kneeling during the anthem and you broke it down showing Vets and family of vets response it would be much higher then the national average

 

yep, I think everyone saw it for what is was before Trump started calling black players SOB's and such from their protest of bad cops

 

what is sad is how Trump is empowering the KKK and in turn they are giving him their support

 

Ignoring that it was a vet who pushed the idea in the first place, divide it between black vets and white vets.

In any case, that bit of expression is allowed at BCPS because it's not harming or disruptive. Wearing a Confederate in a school that's about 40% black is specifically to incite a reaction, and it got one. Again, most white people condemning the protests but wearing their hearts on their sleeves for the flag of a failed nation tells me all I need to know.