Whats your view on this issue?

[serialkiller]

So I went home for lunch today. When leaving the house I noticed this old school beat up truck with a confederate flag on the windshield. I also saw the 2 guys getting in. They both look like typical highschool teens, one maybe being kinda rocker/punkish. How do you view these things? Sometimes it kinda offends me... but thats just me...

Lets keep this on topic and no race bashing please.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

When I see confederate flags on pickups, my first immediate thought is "redneck". But after that, I don't really care.

 

[MustangSVT]

why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

 

[Chunkee]

let me get my musket and we'll talk a spell bout it

jC

 

[miri]

As a minority in America, I see nothing wrong with the confederate flag. Live and let live.

 

[Wapp]

Whenever I see a confederate flag on a car I do a couple circles around it with my keys out.

 

[buck]

Damn honkeys always getting into shenanigans.....

 

[serialkiller]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: serialkiller
So I went home for lunch today. When leaving the house I noticed this old school beat up truck with a confederate flag on the windshield. I also saw the 2 guys getting in. They both look like typical highschool teens, one maybe being kinda rocker/punkish. How do you view these things? Sometimes it kinda offends me... but thats just me...

Lets keep this on topic and no race bashing please.

um ok.. well I see them all the time still by the side of the road on cars etc down here in the South.. its a part of our heritage and history..
doesnt bother me.

 

[blackdogdeek]

what issue?

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

For some people maybe for others maybe not

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

no its not... it is the flag of the confederate states of america.. there were more issues going on during the civil war than just slavery..

 

[leftyman]

i would eat my lunch at work if i were you

 

[Chaotic42]

I think "Get over it, the south lost."

Then I go on my way.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

no its not... it is the flag of the confederate states of america.. there were more issues going on during the civil war than just slavery..

ahh good luck trying to explain this. History has been whashed to the point kids think that the Civil War was about slavery.

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

It might be.. but why are you getting upset over it?

Spend your energy/focus elsewhere it might be needed ..

as for that moron who keys cars with that flag, i hope u get caught :roll:

 

[serialkiller]

Originally posted by: miri

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

For some people maybe for others maybe not

Well in that case I am not too offended. But I remember when I took a elective in college (black power and civil rights) there was one african american student that said his blood boiled whenever he saw the confederate flag on pick ups... so I just assumed that it was a racial thing.

 

[Rebasxer]

Do you also get offended when you see blacks at an affirmative action rally. If you don't than your a hypocrit or a racist. Both are just instances of demonstrations of racial pride.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

no its not... it is the flag of the confederate states of america.. there were more issues going on during the civil war than just slavery..

ahh good luck trying to explain this. History has been whashed to the point kids think that the Civil War was about slavery.

Just watch out for the revisionist historians that say slavery played no part whatsoever in it.

 

[serialkiller]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

It might be.. but why are you getting upset over it?

Spend your energy/focus elsewhere it might be needed ..

as for that moron who keys cars with that flag, i hope u get caught :roll:

not upset over it, i just dont put up with racism. I never really understood the history of the confederate flag.. thats why I just wanted other people's input. But now that I see that the flag itself doesnt really portray racism, I am not really offended by it.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: MustangSVT
why does it offend you?

because they are rednecks?

well, from my perspective I've always thought that the stars and bars were a symbol of racism. Is it not?

no its not... it is the flag of the confederate states of america.. there were more issues going on during the civil war than just slavery..

ahh good luck trying to explain this. History has been whashed to the point kids think that the Civil War was about slavery.

Just watch out for the revisionist historians that say slavery played no part whatsoever in it.

Oh it played a part. small part. but a part none the less. But it was not such a large part that many (mainly younger) people think. heck my sister-in-law (13 and very smart) thinks that the norht started the CW to free the blacks. why? because that is what she is taught from the history books.

 

[serialkiller]

Originally posted by: Rebasxer
Do you also get offended when you see blacks at an affirmative action rally. If you don't than your a hypocrit or a racist. Both are just instances of demonstrations of racial pride.

racial pride I understand, hate I dont.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: Wapp
Whenever I see a confederate flag on a car I do a couple circles around it with my keys out.

:roll:

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: serialkiller

Originally posted by: Rebasxer
Do you also get offended when you see blacks at an affirmative action rally. If you don't than your a hypocrit or a racist. Both are just instances of demonstrations of racial pride.

racial pride I understand, hate I dont.

It (the flag) is not about hate though.

Just ignore it.

 

[torpid]

This is more of a P&N Issue, IMO.

That said, if someone had one of those in Wisconsin I would definitely thing negatively of them. Since you appear to be in Texas I think it's more ambiguous.