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Racism on this board....

Did you shave it yet?
 
The rough patch, I mean.
 
I believe there are some skinheads down here.. don't see them often though.
 
I live in South Carolina and the flag caused all sorts of problems here, but the bottom line for me was that the flag had no place on the State house dome. Reconcilliation is loooooong over, and the war ended over a century ago. Nowhere else in the world would a conquored enemy, (and like it or not, once war was declared, shots fired and the south surrendered, thats what the CSA was), be allowed to still fly there flag over their state capital as if the war never happened and things were still hunky dorey. South Carolina is like the problem child of the country. We are a poor state, near last in education, near the top in murder and domestic violence, and our political process chooses to ignore those things in favor of "important issues" like legalized gambling, Video Poker, and Lt Governors and State Treasurers who think they are above the law. We started the damn Civil War, fired the first shots, seceeded from the union first, and held the secret meetings right here in Columbia to decide to leave the USA. But in the end, whether it was a clash of ideologies, or just about fucking owning slaves, we were beaten and I think its high time people around here accept that. The flag isn't on the dome anymore, but the idea that caused it to be there is still held as the status quo, though the majority of people now NO LONGER CARE, save for maybe the NAACP who is just as irellevant (sp?) now as they have been since the decline of the civil rights movement. My comments aren't meant to be racist seeing as I respect that others may have a different opinion, but I've lived in the south all my life and I'm tired of watching the parade of racist hatful bastards who giv what may actually be a legitimate cause a black eye.
 
My grandma and her second ex husband (lol) lived near Charleston South Carolina for many many years. I loved it there.. I think I still have relatives who live up there.

I think the whole thing about the Confederate flag now is just stubbornness.. The descendants of slaves see it as an offensive homage to slavery.. but I think to most white southerners the flag is just a part of the south's heritage good and bad, it is part of our rebellious history. Does it belong on the capitol dome? That's for the voters to decide, I reckon. I believe it does have a place alongside all the historical documents and flags displayed inside (most) capitol buildings, at least for educational purposes.
 
I went to Hilton Head once. It was very humid and the bugs were HUGE but it was pretty. I didn't notice the flag though.
 
I fly the confederate flag all the time and nobody says SHIT!
 
Hilton Head RAWKS!

So does Tybee Island.

I miss partying down there, but not the humidity or the sandfleas.
 
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