How would you react if you see a person flying a Confederate flag on the 4th of July?

@NinaTina what in the world??? Why are they trying to put a huge mattress that won't fit into the door of the car? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@bijouxbroussard beat up by who?

@TallMtnMedic I have some Cherokee in me and now I'm ashamed of it because they fought for the Confederacy.

@Peaceandnamaste do not be ashamed, they had their own reasons for fighting against the usa, very legitimate ones, they just got an ally in the csa

@JohnnyNoir and this is why I hate being the south and I hate my southern roots, just found out that the Cherokee used the same flag and I'm ashamed of it.

@Peaceandnamaste I did not know that

You have not responded? Are you laying down your arms

@BEENOV it may be a hard pill for you to swallow but the primary reason for succession was indeed the disagreement over states' rights for the holding of slaves. The 13th amendment was passed in 1865. The civil war ended on April 9th. On December 6, 1865, slavery throughout the United States became illegal when Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Four years earlier, however, Congress had passed a different 13th Amendment, stating, “No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.” Fortunately, only two states ratified it, and in the meantime, 11 states seceded from the Union. That lead to the civil war.

Two years later, the nation moved in the opposite direction, towards abolishing slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. However, its effect was limited as it didn’t extend emancipation to those in the border states or in those parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control.

Finally, on January 31, 1865, Congress passed a new 13th Amendment, which stated, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” This new version was approved by President Lincoln the following day and quickly ratified by 18 of the necessary 27 states within a month, but stalled with the assassination of President Lincoln in April of that year.

Finally, in December 1865, Georgia became the 27th state to ratify the amendment, fulfilling the requirement that three-quarters of the states approve of a Constitutional amendment.

@dale74 Bravo my man,

@hippyjoe1955 yes...i loved the dukes of hazards as i did with all in the family

@beermeplease It wasn't my favourite show but it does give a bit of perspective on how suddenly the confederate flag is evil incarnate while the stars and stripes are being waved over troops committing genocide (Vietnam) or the slaughter in Ukraine. I'll take the confeds at least they had no delusions of being a world power. They simply wanted to be left to their own affairs. "I'll take care of my business and you take care of yours."

@hippyjoe1955 ok...

@Patriot96 i think it cool

@basilfawlty89 why I hate being from the south

@basilfawlty89 Just found out that there were native American tribes that fought in the Confederacy, I'm ashamed of my Cherokee and southern roots.

@MarmeeMarch of you want to delude yourself, you are welcome to it.

@MarmeeMarch and you are using the usual NAGA response, resort to insults when all else fails!

@samueltyler2 If you want to model your country on the Irish vs English situation, go right ahead (but why?)

There has never been a 'Scot vs UK' war.The current arrangement of a Scottish parliament within the United Kingdom seems to work quite well and amicably, considering the history of Scots/Engish conflict. People CAN come to their senses.

@ffony I did not say that I want to model our country on any other country. You raised the issue of long standing animosity. I didn't even bring up so many others, mostly ethnic/religious. It isn't a matter of someone coming to their senses, the US Civil war has been festering ever since the confederates fired the first shot at Ft. Sumter, and not because the victorious union tried to not end the war. The head of the Heritage Foundation stated recently, a warm civil war has already started, he further said that the left will be responsible if the war turns bloody. But, look at the videos from the Jan 6 insurrection, the confederate flags were all over the place.

@samueltyler2 No. The topic is:

my "reaction to seeing a person flying a Confederate flag on the 4th of July"

My response was and is:

"I'd wonder why. My birth country also had a civil war; but after a while they just moved on and forgot about it."

Anyway, I'm sorry the people of your country are unable to give up their 'festering' civil war. Sounds awful.

@Cooper would you laugh if it was a Nazi flag? That also had nothing to do with the American Revolution.

@NinaTina burning what?

@samueltyler2 usa flag

@PatKirby

I remember that well

@Slade

Cool. I do wonder what the sign says that home boy is holding at upper right?

@PatKirby some kind of yo mama message 😛