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Issue date: 2/27/07 Section: Opinions
White misunderstands flag's symbolism
Mr. White, your impaired judgment of the Confederate battle flag prompts my own secession from your words.You argue against Southern heritage, claiming that we celebrate this symbol because of a military defeat.
You are indeed wrong, good sir. You are, in fact, misrepresenting the original meaning of the flag.
The original version stood for, among others, fidelity, tradition and respect for women.
In fact, one even can even include the pillars to our glorious University's symbol: wisdom, justice and moderation.
Your feeble attempt to attack the character of Southerners who respect the initial content of the flag should be ostracized.
Until you can base your apparent disdain for this symbol off other arguments besides "Southerners look like a bunch of losers" and "Ted Nugent," think before you write.
JEFF PUTNAM
Junior, Duluth
Public Relations
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Jeff
posted 2/27/07 @ 8:56 AM EST
Symbol of fidelity, tradition and respect for women? Ha! Let me handle those in turn.
Fidelity: Explain to me how the secession from the United States was in any way a statement of fidelity. (Continued…)
Sam Davis
posted 2/27/07 @ 10:06 AM EST
Jeff you are a retard. Why don't you read a little bit of history and do a little bit of thinking on your own. The South's Fidelity is holding faithful to probably our country's most important document The Declaration of Independence and to the States Rights granted to them in the U. (Continued…)
Josephine Bass
posted 2/27/07 @ 10:53 PM EST
Oh Johnny, how you do cry!
The free states did not want blacks in them at all. They deemed blacks too much competition for jobs.
Read FREE BUT NOT EQUAL,written by a Chicagoan, a book describing how Blacks were bottled up in the South after the War because the other states did not want them never did want them made laws to keep them out of their state!
Wise up my media idiot friend. (Continued…)
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