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fasttense

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23. The failure I was referring to was the failure to win the war they started.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 12:57 PM
Jun 2015

Which is what the Confederated flag really symbolizes is one giant failure by slave owning whites.

The concentration camps, I mean plantations, they set up to torture and force labor from abused people were quite successful for a few very rich Southern whites. The plantations were very similar to the Nazi concentration camps with their forced labor and use of torture. It was not such a good deal for the middle class in the South because they couldn't get a job that the slaves were NOT already doing for free. And the poor whites in the South were used as cannon fodder, jailers and executioners.

And yet these lazy rich white people manage to convince almost half our country that we should hate the people who escaped their Southern concentration camps.

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it is embarrassing that so many low-lifes embrace that digusting flag Skittles Jun 2015 #1
I must remember that line. 'It represents a defeated Nation of bonniebgood Jun 2015 #2
K & R malaise Jun 2015 #3
the only confederate flag that should matter keroro gunsou Jun 2015 #4
amen! Fast Walker 52 Jun 2015 #8
It also represents the absolute failure of slavery fasttense Jun 2015 #5
my favorite racist parent says redruddyred Jun 2015 #11
You make some good points. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #12
The plunder of slavery continued on into Jim Crow and continues yet today alcibiades_mystery Jun 2015 #19
The failure I was referring to was the failure to win the war they started. fasttense Jun 2015 #23
I have come across some who claim that the Confederate flag honors those who fought for the South Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2015 #6
indeed Fast Walker 52 Jun 2015 #9
I think Reagan was secretly, ideologically a Nazi. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #13
the republican leadership is effectively fascist if you can get away from the emotional triggers unblock Jun 2015 #15
I agree. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #16
From the bottom of my born and bred southern heart...... paleotn Jun 2015 #7
where is this post? Fast Walker 52 Jun 2015 #10
I apologize. It's on his Facebook page. Hissyspit Jun 2015 #20
thanks-- I looked on his blog and didn't see it Fast Walker 52 Jun 2015 #22
from what I remember, a lot of it was abt us vs them pride redruddyred Jun 2015 #14
The South lost the war, but won the propaganda war. Archae Jun 2015 #17
In the mid 50's you would see an occasional Confederate flag bumpersticker randr Jun 2015 #18
Born to lose a very good description fasttense Jun 2015 #24
Hear.Fucking.Hear. Iggo Jun 2015 #21
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