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Ed - You keep telling me how I think, how I view different symbols and how blacks think. I'm not going to even get into the reasons for the civil war. I wasnt there, you werent there and the history books are different now than they were when I was in school. Mainly because of the liberal educational system that preaches "white man bad, all others good" (obviously just my opinion.)

I never once said slavery was a good thing. You said I said that, or at least implied that I think that. Also, if blacks never went around exspousing farakan or malcolm X, then why are they so well known? Not for their message of love.

What I am saying about the facts is this - nothing you stated is fact. It is all your beliefs, that you apparently feel strongly about. The flip side is that someone else can feel just as strongly for the other side without being hate filled. You refuse to even acknowledge that possibility. Who is the narrow minded one then? When it comes down to it, you were the one that called names and applied your perception of traits to entire races and regions. Oh yeah - no one ever stated that it would be a good idea to hang the confederate flag over the schools name. That was you making wild accusations and leaps of logic. Personally, I dont display the battle flag because of the negative image it has, but I 100% support the right of others to be able to fly/wear/display it. We dont need any more of big brother in our lives than we already have.

Bottom line - if it offends you, then by all means be offended, but dont tell me what I should and shouldnt be offended by. And if a picture of a flag intimidates you, then you have no business being in public school, you need to ride the short bus to school.