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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119794)	12/28/2000 1:52:35 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't care much about football, Flap, but this is a pretty good article. I'm somewhere in the middle, the son of a Southerner raised in the North (Montana, West, actually, but pretty durn North too). My father had some old minie balls he picked up when he was a kid down in Dillon SC, maybe 50 years after they were fired in anger. He had every right to teach me Southern ways, but never did. I've been a Yankee all my life. When we took a family trip down South, I thought it was strange that the battlefields there had statues of the Southern Generals. Weren't they the bad guys, undeserving of such honor? And weren't those statues an insult to American values? Dad taught that the soil was Southern, the people were Southern, the Generals were Southern, and that's just the way it was. Now my father is gone, but I see the wisdom in what he taught. That's the way it was. Covering it up or burying it is not going to change that. Should Montana take the pick and shovel off its state flag because mining isn't politically correct anymore? Should California take the word 'Republic' off its flag because it's part of the United States now? Go through all the state flags and clean 'em up while you're at it. Nothing offensive allowed. Take down the Confederate flag. It never happened. Let the South die. There was a losing side. There was a wrong side. That's the way it was. We can forget. Or our kids can. But should they? Why should we forget our history just because it offends?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119794)	12/28/2000 7:23:43 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 769667

What follows is a most excellent article on why the Confederate flag is offensive. The following appeared about a year ago, right after the Super Bowl in Atlanta. As you may recall, there was some controversy on whether the NFL should be playing Super Bowls in states that display the Stars and Bars. I've saved this article for a year, and am now sharing it with the board to support the view that descendants of the boys who wore blue 140 years ago also have a right to speak out. By Michael Bauman Milwaukee Journal Sentinel What do you expect from a cheese head?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (119794)	12/28/2000 11:28:31 AM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

What's your opinion of the NFL and the NBA, seeing as they are overrepresented by blacks/African Americans and underrepresented by whites in proportion to America's population? If you want to suupport arguments with flim-flam articles based on a sportswriter's opinion, be prepared to answer the hard questions that follow. What do you think of the half million to million Rwandans who were murdered by the descendants of the very tribes who provided slaves to the US for profit? How many $ have the "African Americans" sent to improve the situation in Africa? and how much has improved as a result? What do you think of the millions killed in Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Sudan because of civil wars and power struggles? How many "African Americans" have lifted a finger to help stop the holocausts in their ancestors' former homelands? African American complaints fall on deaf ears because many of that group are so brainwashed by the ignorant leaders of the black movement that they fail to see the hypocrisy of their arguments.