Take down confederate flag, and change street names in public places?

[Ricter]

I don't see the street renaming happening much. Takes more time, and we all know that with time the American public will return its focus to the antics of Hollywood.

 

[gwb-trading]

I don't see the street renaming happening much. Takes more time, and we all know that with time the American public will return its focus to the antics of Hollywood.

In North Carolina we have many sections of highways such as I40, I95, and I85 which are named after dead Confederate generals. It would be pretty easy to remove the names and signs (e.g. General Lee Memorial Highway) from these roads.

 

[dbphoenix]

I know it wasn't sudden; it eventually reached a tipping point where something was done about it. I also don't think that the general dislike of the Confederate flag was sudden; it just reached a tipping point where something was finally done about it. Tsing used the word, inappropriately, and I lobbed it back.

Gotcha. The South, of course, will never get over losing. But not all those who live in the South are slack-jawed mouth-breathers. There are those like Haley who not only understand how societies are organized but also understand how capitalism works. If one wants one's state's revenues to increase, one avoids alienating large portions of the national populace, not only personal but business. Unless of course one is pathologically stupid (e.g., Jindal and Brownback). Texas doesn't care. The rest of the South doesn't have that luxury. After all, except for Nashville, Atlanta and Disney World, what exactly does the South have going for it?

 

[dbphoenix]

I don't see the street renaming happening much. Takes more time, and we all know that with time the American public will return its focus to the antics of Hollywood.

I understand Kim Kardashian is readying yet another set of selfies featuring her tits.

 

[gwb-trading]

After all, except for Nashville, Atlanta and Disney World, what exactly does the South have going for it?

Well you don't live here... that's a good start.

 

[dbphoenix]

Republicans Compare Taking Down Confederate Symbols To ISIS Destroying Cultural Monuments

What separates us from ISIS? Because that's what they do, they go around and tear down history in those nations that they've conquered.

--Republican state Sen. John Stevens

 

[Ricter]

Umm, Apple has removed Civil War wargames from its app store, if they contain the confed flag...? that's too far now.

 

[dbphoenix]

On Wednesday evening’s edition of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart interviewed Fox News’ senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano. The two discussed the rights of various parties to fly the Confederate flag — a discussion that soon turned into one about policing speech.

“It’s also not the right to speak without consequence or pushback and I’m noticing a trend that says that, ‘I should be allowed to say whatever I want and you can’t criticize me because that’s threatening and intimidation. But it’s not, it’s the conversation.”

“That is called the right not to be offended,” said Napolitano. “There is no such right.”

 

[dbphoenix]

Umm, Apple has removed Civil War wargames from its app store, if they contain the confed flag...? that's too far now.

The pendulum swings . . .

 

[fhl]