girl at your drivers-ed class is retarded

they all love that flag here in the south, theyre so dumb

i think it's pretty dumb to get anything painted on your nails like that

especially your toe nails

i dunno

i think it looks tacky as fuck

I agree.
My boyfriend used to be in a band called Black Top Demon, and the lead singer gave everybody in the band Warrior jackets, complete with the Confedete flag on the side. Everyone put it on except for my boyfriend.

i dont have toenails

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you lucky bitch

i save up m yfingernali clippings an dleave them for my subjects of stalking. they love it.

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those lucky bitches

I have toe nails. I paint 'em black if I paint 'em at all.

Now, WTF? The hillbilly mafia scares me more than the italian or irish mafia. Truly... the other night I watched this movie with Debra Winger as an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated a KKK-type organization. She was assigned to and fell in love with their leader and eventually killed the man/outlaw she loved as he tried to asassinate a politico.

I can't remember the name... wait, "Betrayed" or something. Anyway, less than a quarter way into the movie, these good old boys go pick up a black kid, probably about 16 or so tie him up, blind-fold him, and drive out to their camp and send him running into the woods and begin to shoot at him after the count of ten.

Realizing their prey was still alive, they walk to the area where the wounded boy leans against a tree begging for his life. The hicks hand Winger the gun to offer her 'her first kill point' or some shit. She goes ballistic.


Does this shit still happen in the south?

the WORST is.... a french manicure... on your fucking TOES...

whats the confederate flag?

United States Civil War throwback. Some White Southerners (South meaning anywhere below the Mason-Dixon line, the southern border of Pennsylvania) like to use it as a representation of Southern pride. Some use it as a symbol of white pride. Black people see it as a symbol of slavery and oppression, even when it's not used in a "racist" manner. The phrase "Heritage not Hate" is used by people who defend the Confederate Flag.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it. The flag represented a part of America that people fought and died for, many for reasons beyond the simple, catch-all answer of "slavery." A lot of people in the South have ancestors that fought in the war. It's easy to forget that as little as 50 years ago or even less, there were still Civil War survivors - fathers, grandfathers, etc. Stories get passed down, and old traditions die hard. I don't have any problem with someone honoring their family history with such a symbol, even if some see it as a racist symbol.

Race is an extremely complicated and touchy subject in this country.

Yeah, sure. Why not? And then Germans who have family who fought for Hitler can hoist the flag of the Third Reich in memory of their heritage. A lot of Germans died in that war after all.

as a proud southern gal, i see nothing wrong with the confederate flag, and i am in no way racist. i do see is as southern pride, and i am proud of where i came from. and yes, i am a redneck.

Why specifically? Care to expand?

As a fan of the free speech, I must agree with you. However, I also understand that it is one thing to have voluntarily enlisted in a war and another to be brought to this country unwillingly as a slave. So yes, touchy subject.

Although I believe in individual freedom, the fact that southerners (and I am one) held on to that flag as the state flag in so many states for so long despite the fact that it clearly was upsetting to a fair portion of the population makes me think not so highly of them. But slavery existed under the US flag for a lot longer than anything existed under the confederate flag, so in a way it's not much better.

That's a bullshit argument. The Nazi flag represented an ideology of hate - they weren't rebelling against anyone who was oppressing them.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of rebellion - The South believed that the North was out to end their way of life, by freeing the slaves, yes, but mostly because they felt the North was imposing industrialism upon them. They felt like they were fighting for their livelihood. They were resisting the new Industrialists that started in the North, paid their workers shit wages, and eliminated self-sufficiency through farming. They feared the North would devastate their agriculture based economy. The Civil War was one over economics and states rights. Slavery was just the tip of the iceberg - do you really think the North, at large, gave a shit about the plight of black slaves?

Rebellion is something ingrained in this country, and in general, we don't like when someone blatantly fucks with us, from the outside, or within. Everywhere I hear "dissent is patriotic." If that's the case, were the Southern rebels less patriotic? Is the Confederate Flag then, an unworthy symbol of America? I say it is worthy. There were plenty of whites who fought for the South who did not own slaves and rallied under that flag just the same to fight off invading Northerners who wanted to kill them!

Though they lost the war, by all accounts, the South kicked the North's ass royally, despite having HALF the total number of troops. People forget that. America's rebel spirit is something to be cherished, not hidden away.

There were an estimated 4 million slaves in the US. 1 million people died in the Civil War.

62 million people died in World War 2. You're NUTS if you think the Confederate Flag is a symbol on the same level as the Nazi flag.

No. Not at all. I'm from Delaware, considered both southern and northern and often the breeding ground for illegal slave trade AND slave escape during the Civil War. At the southern tip the word 'nigger' is used exclusively (and any other term that may refer to a non-white, christian being). And at the northern end everyone co-habitates equally without much tolerance for those who subscribe to said archaic ignorance.

Sadly, most of the people who live in non-urban enviornments (around here, at least) believe whole-heartedly that black people, or any other minority, deserve all the injustice they recieve. They fly their confederate flags proudly and forgo dental plans in favor of giant coolers of beer, tons of stuffed animals in the back windows of their Dodge Neons and weekends spent watching NASCAR races on TNN.

What a shame.

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