It's nice when somebody is somewhat 'enlightened'. (Idk, in high school, I used to read DuBois because I actually wanted to..) It was much better than The Chocolate War or whatever bullshit I was supposed to read at the time |…|
How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
This kid hits on an important point that pisses me off to no end. It finally dawns on him- "how do my black friends feel about it?". It gets so tiresome hearing the excuse that to southerners, the flag represents heritage or history or southern pride. They'll even sometimes go so far as to acknowledge that it means something different to others. But then every one of those fuckers hand waves those others' feeling away as if they don't matter.
Yes jethro, to you it may actually be a symbol of southern heritage to you and maybe you're not actually racist (big if, for most of them). But to many, many others it is a symbol of hatred and tyranny and represents the subjugation and enslavement of millions of people for hundreds of years. That you so cavalierly dismiss their feelings makes you at the very least a selfish prick who can't see beyond his own needs and wants. Even if you truly don't feel it's a symbol of racism and treason, if you were half the man you think you are, you'd stop waving that flag around out of respect for their feelings, even if you don't understand or agree with them. At this point no one can claim to not know how hurtful it is to others, choosing to continue your offensive display just tells people that you think your feelings count more than everyone else's.
Nutshell: "I didn't understand the racism that was ingrained in me to be hurtful. But now I do." I don't know, at least he fucking realized it. I don't want to get all condescending and say we're dealing with Southerners here, but shit.
no, my hat is off to this kid- he did get it. it's the others who, even once it's pointed out to them, just don't care that piss me off. Too many of them are convinced that their feelings count more than everybody else's- especially the blah's feelings. But don't dare call them racist…
That's what I saw when I read the article. He thought about others in his life, became aware of them as persons like him, and put himself in their place. Hooray.
Edit: And then went out there and told the world. That took something I think.
The weird denialism of (some) White Southerners can be headspining. In the past few weeks, I saw one dude try to argue that "only Peripheral Southerners dislike the flag" (yes, actual quote), after droning on about how not a racist he was. But, you know, Black Southerners are just peripheral. I've seen TWO different Southerners try to argue, non-ironically, that they think their (white) Southern heritage is best described as "hard working", because of how they had to rebuild after the war. The war they fought to try and force other people to do all their manual labor for them, for free, that war.
Unfortunately, the world is on social media, which is disgusting to me. If a dude that didn't know about his "Southern Heritage" all this time renounces his views, I consider it a victory. I guess I'm a realist. He might reach other fuckwads in his 'friends list' too, or whatever. Maybe they'll think a thought or something. And sadly, that's how it goes, now…
I mean, fuck, I had to stop using the term "thug" as an interchangeable term for "asshole" when I heard that the T-word was being used as an alternate for the N-word. Dropping the flag that stands for the equivalent measure of hate should be a no-brainer FFS…
Good for this guy. I would hope I'd be as open minded and willing to consider reexamination of my positions as he is.
it's nice when one of them comes back into the light.
I read the whole thing. Whoop de shit. Are we supposed to celebrate one southern fuckup who realized how wrong he was?
I no longer let the people I was raised by tell me how to view every issue and tried my best to be more open-minded.
Dude can't write for shit. Are we supposed to celebrate him? He writes:
As our country continues to move forward on equality issues, I believe the only place for the Confederate flag is in our history books."
Well, good for you for learning something I learned 30 years ago in 4th grade.
Fuck him and the flag he rode in on.
It's nice when somebody is somewhat 'enlightened'. (Idk, in high school, I used to read DuBois because I actually wanted to..) It was much better than The Chocolate War or whatever bullshit I was supposed to read at the time |…|
How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
This kid hits on an important point that pisses me off to no end. It finally dawns on him- "how do my black friends feel about it?". It gets so tiresome hearing the excuse that to southerners, the flag represents heritage or history or southern pride. They'll even sometimes go so far as to acknowledge that it means something different to others. But then every one of those fuckers hand waves those others' feeling away as if they don't matter.
Yes jethro, to you it may actually be a symbol of southern heritage to you and maybe you're not actually racist (big if, for most of them). But to many, many others it is a symbol of hatred and tyranny and represents the subjugation and enslavement of millions of people for hundreds of years. That you so cavalierly dismiss their feelings makes you at the very least a selfish prick who can't see beyond his own needs and wants. Even if you truly don't feel it's a symbol of racism and treason, if you were half the man you think you are, you'd stop waving that flag around out of respect for their feelings, even if you don't understand or agree with them. At this point no one can claim to not know how hurtful it is to others, choosing to continue your offensive display just tells people that you think your feelings count more than everyone else's.
Nutshell: "I didn't understand the racism that was ingrained in me to be hurtful. But now I do." I don't know, at least he fucking realized it. I don't want to get all condescending and say we're dealing with Southerners here, but shit.
no, my hat is off to this kid- he did get it. it's the others who, even once it's pointed out to them, just don't care that piss me off. Too many of them are convinced that their feelings count more than everybody else's- especially the blah's feelings. But don't dare call them racist…
That's what I saw when I read the article. He thought about others in his life, became aware of them as persons like him, and put himself in their place. Hooray.
Edit: And then went out there and told the world. That took something I think.
The weird denialism of (some) White Southerners can be headspining. In the past few weeks, I saw one dude try to argue that "only Peripheral Southerners dislike the flag" (yes, actual quote), after droning on about how not a racist he was. But, you know, Black Southerners are just peripheral. I've seen TWO different Southerners try to argue, non-ironically, that they think their (white) Southern heritage is best described as "hard working", because of how they had to rebuild after the war. The war they fought to try and force other people to do all their manual labor for them, for free, that war.
Unfortunately, the world is on social media, which is disgusting to me. If a dude that didn't know about his "Southern Heritage" all this time renounces his views, I consider it a victory. I guess I'm a realist. He might reach other fuckwads in his 'friends list' too, or whatever. Maybe they'll think a thought or something. And sadly, that's how it goes, now…
I mean, fuck, I had to stop using the term "thug" as an interchangeable term for "asshole" when I heard that the T-word was being used as an alternate for the N-word. Dropping the flag that stands for the equivalent measure of hate should be a no-brainer FFS…