Symbolic Speech and Me

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Josias

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My point was, if you were going to do something controversial in an admittedly uptight setting, you should have done it in private if you wanted to avoid controversy.

Race and opinion are separate things. I'm not black but I have the same right as anyone else to speak out against slavery. I fail to see why a Hispanic person should be condemned for speaking out against something he and his ancestors were not directly influenced by.

As far as your concerns about how other people are viewing this situation: FUCK EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE!

If you're going to cater to the whims of those around you (changing the Casper carving to a logo) you'll always be upset because you can't please everyone. Be yourself.

This too shall pass.

And one last thing: Don't change your avatar, dork. We were kidding (at least I was). :sgrin:
 
There's a lot of truth in your last post seven, and I was wrong to say she shouldn't be offended, and I was very stupid to do it in public. It was a stupid move that I didn't think would end up this way. But I'm not the foreskin of a whale's penis my good friend, more like the stupid dingleberry.

I suppose I really should just let it slide and play it off, I hadn't intended it to be racist and if they can't understand my intent, I should simply avoid the issue altogether. I guess this was an exercise in building thicker skin.

And fuckin' a, I'm a sheep with a rocket launcher now man, just gotta pray we don't have any pacifist sheep in the audience.
 
;957909']I think people should be able to use a rebel flag. The flag itself was originally designed to be a mockery of the "Union Jack", and the south chose the older design to mock the union. After all, some people use it as a claim to southern heritage. After all if Black Panther and Malcolm X paraphanalia (both, by definition, connected to racism) can be displayed, who cares? I could give a shit. Sadly, too many white people feel the need to "overcompensate" and go to extremes. Hell, when I was a kid, we all the thought the rebel flag was the "Dukes of Hazzard" symbol. Nobody gave a shit. If we're gonna raise hell about the flag, then perhaps we should raise hell about the USMC NCO sword- a replica of a confederate cavalry saber. Also, the rebel flag flew over Shuri Castle in the invasion of Okinawa, Japan.

The one issue with the flags I do have is when they are displayed over the American flag.

Liberal Arts colleges as the one you mention should be converted into bombing ranges without informing any of the local populace. I'd love to catch a kid burning one. I'd wait, let him light it, then douse him in Zippo fluid as soon as he does. I offer this:

One of my favorite poems:

A protest raged on a courthouse lawn,
Round a makeshift stage they charged on,
Fifteen hundred or more they say,
Had come to burn a Flag that day.

A boy held up the folded Flag,
Cursed it, and called it a dirty rag.
An Old Man pushed through the angry crowd,
With a rusty shotgun shouldered proud.

His uniform jacket was old and tight,
He had polished each button, shiny and bright.
He crossed that stage with a soldier's grace,
Until he and the boy stood face to face.

Freedom of Speech; the Old Man said,
Is worth dying for, good men are dead,
So you can stand on this courthouse lawn,
And talk us down from dusk to dawn,
But before any Flag gets burned today,
This old man is going to have his say.

My father died on a foreign shore,
In a war they said would end all war.
But Tommy and I wasn't even full grown,
Before we fought in a war of our own.
And Tommy died on Iwo Jima's beach,
In the shadow of a hill he couldn't quite reach
Where five good men raised this Flag so high,
That the whold damn world could see it fly.

I got this bum leg that I still drag,
Fighting for this same old Flag.
Now there's but one shot in this old gun,
So now it's time to decide which one,
Which one of you will follow our lead,
To stand and die for what you believe?
For as sure as there is a rising sun,
You'll burn in Hell Before this Flag burns, son.

Now this riot never came to pass.
The crowd got quiet and that can of gas,
Got set aside as they walked away
To talk about what they had heard this day.
And the boy who had called it a dirty rag,
Handed the Old Soldierthe folded Flag.

So the battle of the Flag this day was won
By a tired Old Soldier with a rusty gun,
Who for one last time, had to show to some,
This Flag may fade, but these Colors don't run.
 
So you're going to help ensure this country's freedom by serving in the military but when a citizen exercises the freedom you have fought for, you're going to kill them?

Well... it's getting kind of chilly in here, I think I'll throw another flag on the fire. Damn, I gotta take a shit too. Hmmm... *idea* I know... I'll wipe my ass with your poem.
 
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