Confederate flags sales soar as South Carolina prepares for key vote
The confederate battle flag was never a symbol that had any resonance with me, but I can see where it would be for a lot of people. I lived in the south for several years when I was young, and while there was certainly racism to be found there – as in my native Michigan – the attitude of the people there toward the confederacy was not about racism. Not, not, not. And if I were a southerner, right now I’d be stockpiling those flags.
Kinda wondered if I was the only one. Turns out not so much.
And really…come on. Why would I ever allow this pasty little psycho to take anything away from me?
For that matter, why would I allow it from the censorious parasites trying to capitalize on what he did?
Indeed… I can just see the “war on certain flags” being as successful as the “war” on almost anything else. Cut off supply? I can hear the sewing machines revving up all over China now. LOL Won’t ever be as big a deal as cannabis, obviously, but I’m sure the “mules” coming in over the border will spare a spot for a few contraband flags. And we don’t even need to “3D print” them… ordinary printing methods will work just fine.
Amusingly, my flag just arrived in my mailbox today:-). Not something I’d ever planned to buy, but being told by Social Justice Weenies that I’d be a badthinking, doubleplusungoodnik if I so much as *looked* at the Flag of the Dukes of Hazard kicked me in my bump of defiance, so I found a place in California (of all places!) that was selling them and placed an order.
Probably won’t ever actually fly it anywhere, but just knowing I have one gives me a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling.
🙂 I had a similar impulse, for the same reason.
I have had a battle flag tattooed on my shoulder for 23 years now, crossed with the TN state flag. When I got it, I was a couple of feet from a black shipmate who was also getting tattooed. He had no problem with it.
Jump to 2008: I was working with an Army recruiter, thinking about going back in. Don’t bother asking, it’s irrelevant: a little later, a truck left-turned in front of my bike & rendered it a moot point. The recruiter said I might have to get a waiver for the spiderweb tat on my elbow, also acquired while I served in the USN. He said it might be a gang tat (it’s a biker tat).
Nowadays, I’d probably be denied outright because of the flag that used to bother nobody (at least, nobody who cared enough to say so). Well, denied because of that & that I’m now too old.
I haven’t gotten my stars and bars yet, but I’m thinking about it. I’m not much of a flag waver…