CNN- DEBATE OVER CONFEDERATE FLAG part 2

[1978atcarroll]

"Using that reasoning, are you saying you want to fly a swastika?" What a joke of a reporter, deliberately clouding the issue in order to push his views on us. and, you don't have to endorse flying it, but you must acknowledge the fact that people have the right to fly it. if the government can take away the right to fly a flag (symbolic free speech) because some people think it is offensive, it's time for another civil war.

[solaceinstrife]

Holy shit did I just hear a New Yorker defend the Confederate Flag and defend the Freedom of Expression? My respect for New York has went waaaay up after that. Long may the flag of Dixie wave!

[fork1964]

Freedom of speech applies to everyone.

[222bakerst]

Kevin White has recently been driven from office in a sex/corruption scandal. Is he really the kind of person that CNNAACP wants to represent the anti-flag folks today?

[unclefixer]

MY po lil' feelings is hurt, therefore, I want to pass some unconstitutional and illegal law. I am too weak as a person to understand that rights are not subject to the emotional and flighty whims of liberals. This is basically what these people think.

We need to start teaching the constitution to these people and make a lot of them get a job and work for living. If all I had to worry about was my feelings being hurt, then I would have no problems. I would smile and drink another beer.

[lancasterKENT]

Confederate "flag" = 1) Sore Butthurt losers 2) A great design 4 toilet tissue to wipe butts with.

Get over it losers. Everyone else has. Putting up a bunch of loser flags won't change the fact that the south got so Vv beat (true losers) and, gee, we even have a black prez. now. PS. Calling Obama half black is like calling Rush Limbaugh half bald. JS.

[FRANKIEFRESH9]

Confederate Flag= Losers !

[tickkick14]

This is so decidedly biased. I see a double standard here. So sad and dissappointing.

[TropicalConfederate]

We will raise flag after flag, legally until that's all you scalawag and federal motherfuckers see on your daily commutes. You will not be able to so much as drive a mile without seeing a battle flag when we are finished. Just to rub in your face every single day and remind you for what you have fought against and stripped. Mark my words, the politically correct will pay for their foolishness 100 times over until it's the most common flag in the state of Florida.

Deo Vindice

[CWScott24]

the CNN anchor is against free speech, how funny.

[GranTorinoFan]

How come the Yankee is the only one to get it? I can express my self however I want according to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Give me a petition if you don't like it and I'll consider it.

[JeffParker45]

When you stutter... Your lying...

[NoMoreNeoCons]

I'm all for banning the confederate flag but I also thing that next we should ban the US flag. While the confederate flag was indeed the flag of slavery for 4 years the US flag was the flag of slavery for 90 years, plus the Indian genocide flag, plus the segregation flag , plus the abortion flag, plus the doctrine of pre-emptive war flag. The abortion flag, the US stars and stripes is responsible for the slaughter of millions of dead babies yearly, lets get it banned next...

[BuschTek]

@NoMoreNeoCons You're an idiot

[TampAnonymous]

i went to the SCV music festival and took a picture in front of the flag, fucking amazing. it gives me hope that the south will rise again!

[irishbama10]

let the flag fly. god bless the south and the united states as a whole

[bluegrassreb]

let it fly!!!!!!!!!

[steelheart121]

ok i find this absolutly hilarious.... this man says it offends him and his family and they dont want it.. SO THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE SOUTH YOU MORON! haha the confederate flag is a flag of pride the schools today have brainwashed our children into thinking the south and the confederacy are "bad people" and "racists" and this flag is nothing but hatred. this is complete and upmost BULLSHIT i have ever heard.

[smokefreak2006]

If something happens to Obama in which the Bible code predicts that as a huge possibility.

The Government will crack down on you Poor and lower middle class whites, White Conseratives, White Confederates, White Patriots, and White Nationalists hard.

You wont be allowed to have: Guns for any reason, Confederate Flags, White men assembled in groups of more than 2,Swastikas, Free Speech with Conservative Opinions on Racial Issues, etc.....

If that was to happen White men are Fucked.

[darthroden]

Once again CNN has proven why its losing viewers and credibility. Instead of taking a neutral stance and allowing debate, it decides to take the slant of siding with Liberals and indirectly with white supremacists who would love more than anything to declare that flag as theirs, or have the useful idiots in the NAACP do it for them.

[smokefreak2006]

Everytime I see that Flag I think of the Police, and how they left me for dead in a snowbank.

I think about Slavery, States Rights to have low taxes be racist and have slaves, Jim Crow, Modern day Racism, Sub Prime Lending to Minorities, Minutemen, Minority Unemployment Rates, Minority Prison Rates, White Prison Guards, White Cops, Race Riots, Race War, Hearing the Word Nigger, Hearing the Word Cracker, Hearing the Word Spic, Pickup Trucks, Banjos, White Poverty.

Thats what I see.

[smokefreak2006]

I dont give a fuck what you guys say, to me I can hear someone calling me a Nigger.

[Ironzealot7531]

sounds like a personal problem to me

Let's say that whenever I see the Baskin Robbins logo, I picture myself being beating assaulted by some dudes and pissed on. Should the Baskin Robbins logo then be banned, because I have a personal issue with it?

[smokefreak2006]

Shut Up Racist, you dont know what I see.

[Ironzealot7531]

right, when you have no argument just call someone a racist

works every time

[smokefreak2006]

No Im not even going to debate with you about the Confederate flag. It will be illegal soon enough. In a lot of cities it already is.

Ill debate with some other racial topic, but THERE'S NO DEBATE THE FLAG MUST GO!!!

[TampAnonymous]

@smokefreak2006 im not arguing, but where is the flag illegal? i know it is in many public grounds but this flag is on private grounds.

[BigLFTW]

@smokefreak2006 What i dont get is why so many people think they have an opinion and know what is "best" yet they base their knowledge from weak sources, and as soon as you get them to research a little, their whole theory goes right down the drain. Lol isn't funny how everyone wants you to respect their rights, but like to turn around and tell you what you can and cannot do.

[pantera2012]

Heard that Ironzealot7531.

[darthroden]

Well I would never call you that ugly term smokefreak.....moron maybe, but not that.

[92CTD]

that news repoter needs a history lesson

[DragonSkullker]

I would help pay for the exacts same size flag over here between the border between Mexico and Texas. If someone says that flag is racist. They'll say let's take a stroll outside the border to Brazil. There they have a lot of Confederacy. Make them see the true history between different ethnic groups.

Another thing to note the Negros that do report on non-radical Confederates are generally in a black supremacy. Yet some folks don't mind Black Supremacy which I find disturbing.

[confederateful]

that coon is offend. i am offened!!!! my three great grandpa fought for that flag. just to protect is homeland not for slavery. the war wasnt based on that. the yankees were jealous of us. and they werent getting money. thats why.

[darthroden]

Um confederateful,

not that I do not appreciate the defense of our heritage, and the fact your g-g-grandfather was a Southern Soldier of Dixie, but do you think you can make your point WITHOUT uttering that nasty slur?

If not then please shut your mouth and let proper Southerners speak on it.

[rockandroll1110]

I like the first caller as well

[rockandroll1110]

I liked the last caller,I will always fly my flag,I really don't give a damn anymore,I'm tired of the KKK using it as their symbol,they give rational southerners "bad names". I think if things keep going the way they are the South may secede again.We have already risen,because our economy is growing very fastly,I say,they should fly the flag in Tampa!!! SOUTHERN PRIDE!!! I'LL KEEP IT FLYING OR I'LL BE DYING!!!

[jaminx2x2]

damn liberal CNN news its called freedom of speach and the flag is on private property you can put what ever u want there

[Podaboba]

I'm offended that the news anchorman stiffeled all support of the debate. Even at the end he sides against the flag as a neutral party. What a clown.

[espie11]

I use to work out with him, he's a pretty cool guy one on one actually. Before I knew him though I kinda thought he was a douchebag. Definitely is a douche in this clip.

[espie11]

I don't think he does a good job anchoring by the way.

[wowoak]

@Podaboba He's not only a clown, he's historically ignorant as much of the confederate flag haters are. They have been lied to and have decided to jump on the "southerners are racists" bandwagon.

[Jane1620]

I'm offended that Mr. Obama has not shown the long form of his birth certificate.

[LSskimandsk8]

ITS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY!!! ther aint SHIT anyone can do about it!! if its on private property, no matter who can see it or say anything about it, if the owner of the property wants it to stay... IT STAYS!!! i fly one on my privte property 20 yards away from highway 16 in texas and there aint crap anyone can do about it. THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!!! stop bitching you stupid yankees!

[LSskimandsk8]

he's right! everyone has a right to freedom of speech, and i flying a confederate flag is a way of saying "i'm proud of my southern routes" then you've got every right to fly one.

[LSskimandsk8]

as a matter of fact. the traditional kkk does not fly the dixie flag, they fly the kkk flag. only two kkk groups remain that do fly the dixie flag and they are not in the traditional kkk. infact, the president of the traditional kkk sent out a memo to these two groups asking them to not use the dixie flag. oh yea, and the two groups are located in northern states!

[LSskimandsk8]

"it offends you"? wtf? does the american flag offend you? it flew over slavery in the north. get over yourself. yo need a history lesson you stuppid yankee.

[stevemtc1]

This Moderateor is bias is sickening

[rrrtripler]

exactly!! have the sons of the confederates protest the KKK marches when they use it.

[godchaser0407]

my camp has. pissed them off too!

[tthomaselli2]

If the Confederate flag offends you, you need a history lesson.

[chop98]

This flag is over, at the very least, 3,000 yrs old. It's symbol represents freedom against tyranny. You'll see the same frame of mind behind the Socialist/Communist Leagues that backed Lincoln during the Civil War. This frame of mind is what is driving the destruction of America as we speak. Same old game, just a group of different names. Time for an honest to God change in this country.

[sicemonachicken]

no offense but blacks are always talking about how the CSA flag is offensive and hurtful!! You introduce me to a 180 year old former black slave, and let that person give their opinion!!! Blacks and Whites Fought and died for the south!

[pantera2012]

Can't agree more sicemonachicken!!! There's a ton of blacks nowdays who say it's racist and shit and that it hurts them. We're they slaves back in the 1800's? HELL NO! That's like when blacks go around saying the N word to their friends after their ancestors go the shit kicked out of them to stop it! If their ancestors would come back I bet they would slap the hell of those people after they gave so much to try and end racism.

[gunyoudown5595]

i supprt the flag

-alabama

[coydiddy]

Seriously I think it is time for every Southern state: Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida need to have at least one of these flags on the cross sections of their most major highway intersections. And it is people like these two here, liberals like these that will continue to prosper and get into political office and take the rights of everyone in this country away.

[godchaser0407]

Put one up in Maryland too. That state went for Breckenridge and only gave 1,600 votes to Abrasham Lincoln. They were kept in the union by force. Balt-Wash area may be overrun, but I've got friends in Western MD, Southern MD and on the Eastern Shore and they all know where their ancestors' allegiance was. "She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb, huzza! She spurns the Northern scum!"

[F239141]

im offended by this guy, we need to ban him

[TheInfamousBayne]

The US flag brings me hurt.

[TheInfamousBayne]

What a one sided broadcast. The yank from New York actually had it going on haha.........what a an ass that broadcaster is.

[posionpest]

drop that anchorman off in kabul so he gets his throat slced, then he will miss confederate flags

[darthroden]

People who fight to remove the Southern Cross are little more than allies to white supremacist racists who misuse the flag as one of their symbols.

Narrow-minded PC whores like that dude and that reporter would remove the flag and hand it over to groups like the KKK and say "Here, this is your rag forever, we don't want it in our community."

There are only two side to this argument:

You stand with those who say it represents Southern dead and identity.

Or you stand with hate. Your Choice!

[CtHunter8]

if your offended by this flag- you need a history lesson

[darthroden]

I agree with that guy who said we should do more and stand against the KKK directly! They are the cause of this argument and the ones who have hijacked our ancestor's banner!

Do you think Robert E. Lee would not be infuriated by the KKK's misuse of the flag? Do you think Stonewall Jackson would stand by while scum soiled the flag so many brave Southern men and boys honored with their very blood?!

HELL NO! They would lead an army against those bastards and so we should make the same stand!

[Lindyblu]

The Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Gregory Lee Johnson for burning the US flag by a 5-4 vote. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. asserted that "IF THERE IS A BEDROCK PRINCIPLE UNDERLYING THE FIRST AMENDMENT, IT IS THAT GOVERNMENT MAY NOT PROHIBIT THE EXPRESSION OF AN IDEA SIMPLY BECAUSE SOCIETY FINDS THE IDEA OFFENSIVE OR DISAGREEABLE."

[CrosslegLuke]

this is not history but this is what i see when i see the stars and stripe,and Old Glory.

A innocent land(White)

A invading army of Blue coats from the north(Blue)

the flash of their guns(White Stars)

The Blood of that Land People Running down her, Killed by the Blue army(Red stripes)

[ttam456]

woh ok i cant beleive that that news station really has that strong of an opinion on this they are obviously yankees and do not understand heritage and another thing, just to be a little more fair why dont they put a southern white man on the tv along with a negro

[nicorett]

hm that was a relly good debate 2 guys that think the same thing =)

[KelticKlansman]

Why do so many people ignor the fact that slavery existed in the North long before it did in the South? Even some Blacks owned Black slaves. Gen. Grant also owned slaves and did not release them until 2 years after the CW. The CSA banned the importation of slaves while at the same time the North was still bringing them over here by the boat load. If we had never brought slaves over here we wouldn't have as nearly as many problems in this country. There almost as bad as the Jews.

[outlawcountryman]

we all should have one flag over all of this nation. the confederate flag is the flag that should fly over richmond and all over the csa. and if anyone objects its my freedom of speech so fuck anyone who objects.

[repoman59]

let the south rise agen we are rising agen this is proof long live the south!!!!!!!

[cmoney1860]

no your not, everyone thinks your a joke! haha you fuck

[1234dododoor]

We are one nation under God, and should have one flag to show our unity. People who refer to any region's people as "dorks" are just showing their ignorance, we are one people united, and many brave Yankee "dorks" have died defending this nation, and it saddens me to hear such devisive comments. I guess some people never learn.

[seadog1988]

oh brother some body shut these dork Yankees up. i say fly the flag the southern people need to rise up because we aint going to be pushed around any more long live the CSA.

[goodolboy11]

All of the racist people have ruined the confederate flag, the confederate flag was not maid to be used as a symbol of hate

[southernman517]

those two people on the t,v are probably the most ignorant people ever. who know nothing. comparing the confederate flag to a Nazi symbol is just very ignorant. and what about the American flag being used by the ku Klux Klan. like at that famous march in Washington in the 1930,s. how come they never bring that up. or how come they never bring up the fact that the Klan uses the American flag alot two.

[legoking58]

wow i never new that oh no we need to get a new flag for the us to

[csason]

Thanks for posting...