Saw 4 large Confederate flags flying at a house today,

[Art 1]

it was in the white trash section of Sanford Fla. It was really strange to see this and sad in a way. They were large on very tall flag poles. Looking at the property it looked like the guy spent his last bit of money putting them up.

 

[Mizzoufan]

it was in the white trash section of Sanford Fla. It was really strange to see this and sad in a way. They were large on very tall flag poles. Looking at the property it looked like the guy spent his last bit of money putting them up.[/QUOTE

I guess he thought this was his burden to bare.

 

[MIGrandma]

He probably wouldn't have done it had not some people made such a stink about the flag. It's part of history, but it is just a flag.

At a local county fair last week there were a few flea market type vendors, some were selling belt buckles and they had all their confederate ones right up front. Had some people not made such a stink about the flag those belt buckles probably would have just been mixed in with all the rest of them.

 

[NewRVLady]

We saw some died tied shirts and Confederate flags hanging in front of a Veggie stand on the Eastern shore of Maryland today

 

[disneyjunkie]

He probably wouldn't have done it had not some people made such a stink about the flag. It's part of history, but it is just a flag.

At a local county fair last week there were a few flea market type vendors, some were selling belt buckles and they had all their confederate ones right up front. Had some people not made such a stink about the flag those belt buckles probably would have just been mixed in with all the rest of them.

You have got to be kidding.
Freak flags and their related paraphernalia have been on display is certain areas for decades.
This isn't a new thing.

 

[L&Lfan]

Does anyone else have a problem with the OP' s use of the words "white trash " to describe the neighborhood where he/ she saw the flags? I find all racial/ ethnic pejoratives offensive, but maybe I'm too sensitive.

 

[bsblady01]

he has a right to have these flags and so does anyone else. they are apart of American history. people need to get over this

 

[bsblady01]

Does anyone else have a problem with the OP' s use of the words "white trash " to describe the neighborhood where he/ she saw the flags? I find all racial/ ethnic pejoratives offensive, but maybe I'm too sensitive.

he is being very rude

 

[Katie Dawn]

You have got to be kidding.
Freak flags and their related paraphernalia have been on display is certain areas for decades.
This isn't a new thing.

No, it's not new, but...
I've seen them very, very occasionally in my part of the south my entire life. But for the last several weeks I've definitely seen more. When I've been able to see the driver it has been teenage/young adult males. Do with that what you will.

 

[Kalliope]

His property, his choice.

 

[kimblebee]

Does anyone else have a problem with the OP' s use of the words "white trash " to describe the neighborhood where he/ she saw the flags? I find all racial/ ethnic pejoratives offensive, but maybe I'm too sensitive.

I don't. When I think of someone flying that flag, I'll admit that the words that come to mind are white trash, redneck, hillbilly, ignorant. I am sorry if that upsets people but it's what it brings up for me.

 

[MIGrandma]

You have got to be kidding.
Freak flags and their related paraphernalia have been on display is certain areas for decades.
This isn't a new thing.

I didn't say it was a new thing. I've seen confederate flag belt buckles at flea markets before, but they have always just been mixed in with all the others. Now they're front and center.

 

[MickeySP]

I don't. When I think of someone flying that flag, I'll admit that the words that come to mind are white trash, redneck, hillbilly, ignorant. I am sorry if that upsets people but it's what it brings up for me.

I think of an American exercising his right of free speech. I don't like profiling anyone. I may really disagree with a view but I don't denigrate people based on views.

 

[kimblebee]

I think of an American exercising his right of free speech. I don't like profiling anyone. I may really disagree with a view but I don't denigrate people based on views.

But by objecting to the term white trash, aren't you (General you) profiling too? I bet you don't think of someone in a three piece suit or made up to the nines when you hear that term. You have a preconceived image, no?

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

he has a right to have these flags and so does anyone else. they are apart of American history. people need to get over this

It is the flag of traitors who lost a war they fought to maintain their desired right to own other human beings. Why anybody wants to associate with defeated traitors makes no sense to me, and while those who do so have the right to make a statement, so do others have the right to denounce that statement with statements of their own.

As to getting over it, one could say the same thing for those still flying the Confederate battle flag more than 150 years after the Confederacy was defeated and surrendered. The admonition to get over it rings a little hollow in that light, in my opinion.

 

[Mokat76]

Does anyone else have a problem with the OP' s use of the words "white trash " to describe the neighborhood where he/ she saw the flags? I find all racial/ ethnic pejoratives offensive, but maybe I'm too sensitive.

I do. I truly don't get how people who rightly recoil from using the "n-word" (as most of us do) can find it acceptable to fling perjoratives the other way.

 

[whitney250]

I don't. When I think of someone flying that flag, I'll admit that the words that come to mind are white trash, redneck, hillbilly, ignorant. I am sorry if that upsets people but it's what it brings up for me.

Why is it ok to sterotype someone as "white trash" if they are doing something you don't agree with? It's not right to use derogatory racial statements towards ANY race.

ETA: I live in the south, and it isn't only white people who fly the flag. I have seen it with my own two eyes.

 

[kimblebee]

Why is it ok to sterotype someone as "white trash" if they are doing something you don't agree with? It's not right to use derogatory racial statements towards ANY race.

Please show me where I said it was right?

 

[whitney250]

Please show me where I said it was right?

I never said you said it was right. I'm telling you that it is wrong for anyone to do so.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Well, this one went exactly how I'd imagined it would.