The Flag

Dammit! I was gonna do a rant on racism, but damned if Acidman didn't beat me to it. I've said many times how black "leaders" like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Maxine Waters, and useful idiots like John Lewis have totally betrayed the black race. If the KKK had planned it they could not have done a better job in keeping people in poverty and on "the plantation". More on that later.

The Georgia Legislature just finished their session for the year (On a side note, wouldn't it be nice if the US Senate and House only met for three months a year? That would give them less time to pass stupid laws that fuck up this country.), and fortunately, they didn't accomplish much. They didn't pass the ethics law that the governor wanted. Yeah! Politicians with ethics. Next thing someone's gonna tell me is that Bill Clinton has shut the fuck up. They did do sumpin' about the biggest problem facing the people of Georgia: The fucking state flag! I am so fucking sick of this bullshit. Can't someone make 'em stop?

It's gotten so bad that it's gone national as evidenced by this post by Christopher Johnson from my home town of Webster Groves Missouri.

This shit started a while back. The blacks were offended by the St. Andrews cross being part of the Georgia state flag. The flag was changed in 1956 for the sole purpose of pissing off the civil rights folks. Now that blacks have attained more power they wanted it changed. I, myself, think it's a waste of time, but what do I know? I'm from Missouri.

One of the arguments for being offended was that it was a symbol of slavery™. For example, they say, what if you were Jewish and the state flag had a swastica on it. Wouldn't you, as a Jew, be offended. Probably, but if Jews had an illegitmacy rate of 70%, and Jews made up 13% of the population, but made up 50% of the prison population, and if the majority of crimes were Jew on Jew crime, and if there was an anti-achievement mentality among young Jews that studying and doing well in school was acting gentile, the swastica on the state flag would be the last thing on my mind.

But, threatened with boycotts by the NBA and NFL for special events and by other organizations, our previous governor, Roy Barnes, worked out a deal, in private, and changed the state flag. Was that the end of that? Hell no! Now we had to listen to the southern heritage bullshit. Attention everyone! The Civil War ended almost 140 years ago. The South lost. Civil rights laws were passed in the 1960's. Deal with it. The old flag had nothing to do with southern heritage. It had everything to do with pissing off the civil rights movement.

Anyway, one of Sonny Perdue's campaign promises was to hold a referendum on the state flag. People were bitching about how the new flag wasn't voted on by the electorate. Got news for y'all, the 1956 flag wasn't either. So now we get to vote on the current flag against another flag that isn't the 1956 flag, but still has some Confederate symbology. You'd think that some people could just get a life.

It's only a piece of cloth! Let's just adopt the French flag: A white cross on a white background. That wouldn't offend anybody.

I guess y'all know that as soon as the flag flap is over the next thing we'll hear about is the sculpture on Stone Mountain.

Arrrgggghhhh!

Posted by denny at April 27, 2003 07:45 PM