"The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag"

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Sava, no one asked you. Of course you're going to go along with a Chicago Floridian Commie.
Yes, that flag of which I intially referrred was Bonnie Blue related. Hasn't got ****fromshineola to do with Florida.

The hell it doesn't. WHere do you think the people who flew that flag came from? West Florida, that's where.

[Japher]

Chili needs beans...

[SlowwHand]

I'll split the difference with you.

Together with other republican forces under the command of Colonel Philemon Thomas, these men captured Baton Rouge without loss to themselves, imprisoned Governor de Lassus, and on September 23, 1810, raised their bonnie blue flag over the fort of Baton Rouge. Three days later, John Rhea, president of the West Florida convention, signed a Declaration of Independence, and the lone star flag became the emblem of a new republic.

The Republic of West Florida was short-lived. When Spanish rule was removed from the country with neither the use of American troops nor risk to itself, the government of the United States was interested in asserting its claim to West Florida. On October 27, 1810, President James Madison issued a proclamation declaring West Florida under the jurisdiction of the governor of the Louisiana Territory. On December 10, 1810, the flag of the United States replaced the Bonnie Blue flag over Baton Rouge, and the Republic of West Florida passed into history.

The memory of the West Florida movement lived on in Southern tradition. Twenty-nine years later the Republic of Texas adopted a similar national flag, replacing the white star with a yellow star. Another twenty-two years after that, for a few weeks in 1861, the lone star flag of West Florida would rise again as the unofficial flag of the Republic of Mississippi; and Harry Macarthy’s song would spur it on into the romantic lore of the South. When the song was first played in New Orleans before a mixed audience of Texans and Louisianans, it was received with an outburst of approval that was nearly riotous.

The flag’s existence was mostly a factor of Macarthy’s song. It was not much used as a secession flag, being far overshadowed by palmetto flags and by lone star flags in colours other than a white star on a blue field. It was never adopted by the Confederate government, although Mississippi did adopt an official flag on January 26, 1861 that incorporated it as a canton. But as a result of Macarthy’s song, the Bonnie Blue Flag spread across the Confederate nation and into the hearts of its people.

[Dinner]

The south retains its position as a racist place which is a blight on American history.

[SlowwHand]

Unlike California where the natives just rolled over and tended prune crops for the interlopers?

[chequita guevara]

Unlike, say, California, which successfully lobbied the Federal government to bar Chinese from the U.S. They also created three legal classifications for humans: white, Black, and Indian. Those who didn't fit in were made some other color, so Mexicans were Indians and the Chinese were Black. Native Mexicans were disposed and native Americans were exterminated in genocidal wars.

But Californian isn't a racist blight on our history.

[chequita guevara]

Oh **** me. I said the same thing as Sloww.

Oh well, even he has to be right once in a while.

[SlowwHand]

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Tacc


That's fine. The South isn't bad by definition - but the Confederate flag, the Confederacy, and what it stood for were disgusting. The ONLY celebration that should take place in the South is that it and its ideology of racial purity and hatred lost, and the ideology of freedom ultimately triumphed.

Indeed the Confederacy, like Nazi Germany, is a symbol of all that is wrong with humanity. May they all burn in hell.

[Dr Strangelove]

Did you know that Californians are so racist they even banned Americans from entering their state briefly during the Great Depression?

[chequita guevara]

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Wuss.

Dave's Insanity Sauce

I have had this. It is indeed insane.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Did you know that Californians are so racist they even banned Americans from entering their state briefly during the Great Depression?

We banned poor white trash.

[Dinner]

Dumb Florida flags are but a pale shadow to the great bear flag of the Independent Republic of California.

[ZEE]

DP