NASCAR Bans Rebel Flags
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NPR says Trump stomped on the idea of changing the names of Army bases named after a few Confederate generals.
Tony will love that one.
As I type Joan rolled into "Diamonds and Rust".
Didn't Judas Priest do that one too?
Another good song.
You guys should slow down and listen once in awhile.
Good song... beautiful actually.
Tony will love that one.
As I type Joan rolled into "Diamonds and Rust".
Didn't Judas Priest do that one too?
Another good song.
You guys should slow down and listen once in awhile.
Good song... beautiful actually.
Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague....
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
........I've already paid
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague....
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
........I've already paid
Banning flags and statues are not going to save any black lives. Since we're in a auto racing thread I would suggest we ban black people from driving altogether. Statistically speaking they, or anyone is more likely to get injured or killed in a car accident than by a cop. We might also consider banning black people from living in black neighborhoods. Those places are dangerous as hell to black people
Some liberal advocacy group most likely started bombarding NASCAR sponsors
with threats, word got to the higher ups and they "did something" for the cause.
Its there favorite tactic because it works.
with threats, word got to the higher ups and they "did something" for the cause.
Its there favorite tactic because it works.
The movement to bring down those symbols has been going on for years and years, it did not just pop up with BLM or Obama or anything recent.
I live in the north but am assuming the confederate flag is like a southern
pride kind of thing, not a black white thing.
Although actual racists use it as a symbol also and therein lies the problem.
pride kind of thing, not a black white thing.
Although actual racists use it as a symbol also and therein lies the problem.
The so-called “Dixiecrat” Party formed in protest to the Democratic Party convention’s adoption of a civil rights plank. The Confederate flag became a symbol of protest against civil rights and in support of Jim Crow
Meanwhile, as the civil rights movement gathered force, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, defenders of segregation increasingly employed the use of the battle flag as a symbol of their cause. Most damaging to the flag’s reputation was its use in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. Although founded by Confederate veterans almost immediately after the Civil War, the KKK did not use the Confederate flag widely or at all in its ritual in the 1860s and 1870s or during its rebirth and nationwide popularity from 1915 to the late 1920s. Only with a second rebirth in the late 1930s and 1940s did the battle flag take hold in the Klan.
Because the Confederate battle flag did not fade into history in 1865, it was kept alive to take on new uses and new meanings and to continue to be part of an ever-changing history. As much as students of Civil War history may wish that we could freeze the battle flag in its Civil War context, we know that we must study the flag’s entire history if we wish to understand the history that is happening around us today.
https://www.historynet.com/embattled-banner-the-true-history-of-the-confederate-flag.htm
Meanwhile, as the civil rights movement gathered force, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, defenders of segregation increasingly employed the use of the battle flag as a symbol of their cause. Most damaging to the flag’s reputation was its use in the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. Although founded by Confederate veterans almost immediately after the Civil War, the KKK did not use the Confederate flag widely or at all in its ritual in the 1860s and 1870s or during its rebirth and nationwide popularity from 1915 to the late 1920s. Only with a second rebirth in the late 1930s and 1940s did the battle flag take hold in the Klan.
Because the Confederate battle flag did not fade into history in 1865, it was kept alive to take on new uses and new meanings and to continue to be part of an ever-changing history. As much as students of Civil War history may wish that we could freeze the battle flag in its Civil War context, we know that we must study the flag’s entire history if we wish to understand the history that is happening around us today.
https://www.historynet.com/embattled-banner-the-true-history-of-the-confederate-flag.htm