Quote:Where can I send the racist flag for you to wave

 

If you were going to send any kind of "racist flag" to me, the origins better be Germany.

 

I'm going to get on a touchy subject here, but it needs to be said.  Many people are "offended" or "up in arms" regarding the confederate flag.  I wonder how many of those same people think about The Holocaust and what took place there?  How many of the people getting "offended" even know what happened in the early days of WWII much less what happened during the Civil War?

 

What I am getting at here, is in the past several people were discriminated against, sometimes fatally (my reference to the Holocaust).  However, there was certainly discrimination that took place years after the Civil War, and it wasn't against blacks.

 

My mother has told me about when she was growing up as a child, and going to public school.  They got slapped in the face (physically) if they were caught speaking Spanish (her native tounge, though she was born her in the U.S.).  If her lunch consisted of a burrito or tacos and beans, it was taken away because it wasn't a "proper" lunch.

 

What my point is, racism has been around and affected more in this country than just blacks.  You don't hear stories like my mother's because they are less common, especially for someone not from the southwest.

 

The bottom line is, if there is a monument erected with a flag that represents the soldiers that fought and died there, the flag should remain, and it doesn't matter who "won" or who "lost".  When somebody wants to argue with me with the topic "because slavery", I say get over it.  My ancestors had to endure a life that was oppressive as well, and you don't see any of them being "offended"

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