beagle9
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. Blacks fighting for the Confederacy has me scratching my head.. .... I do think however that the flags can be co-opted by groups who change the meanings of them in some ways or it is that they bring them out to fly due to personal experiences in which they may have had, and for which somehow causes them to do such a thing as that in their lives for some reason or another. Unfortunately there are situations that cause people to regress instead of move forward in life when it comes to racism, and that is a shame. There should be help for people of all races that end up having a developed racist thinking problem in their lives.Those obsessed with pro sports figures kneeling might want to remember the true abuse of Americans from WWI through Vietnam, and particularly WWII:
EBRUARY/MARCH 2009 – About 350 American POWs who either were Jewish or appeared to be to their German captors were imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II, according to survivors who have begun telling their stories in a series of special reports on CNN.
Anthony Acevedo, a medic in the 70th Infantry Division during the war, was the first survivor to step forward with the grisly tale of the American soldiers held at Berga an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald. After being captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Acevedo says he was sent to a POW camp near Bad Orb, Germany, where he was held with other American soldiers. About a month later, the camp’s commander told the prisoners to line up and ordered all of the Jewish soldiers to take one step forward. When few volunteered, Acevedo says, about 90 Jewish soldiers and more than 250 others the Germans thought “looked like Jews” were put on a train to Buchenwald. Acevedo, a Mexican American, is not Jewish.
Once he arrived at the concentration camp, he saw dozens of his fellow soldiers beaten, starved, and in some cases executed for trying to escape. Forced to dig tunnels for 12 hours a day in the final weeks of the war, the prisoners were given 100 grams of bread per week and soup made from rats. As a medic, Acevedo was required to use wax to fill up the holes in the skulls of prisoners who had been executed. When American military units neared the camp, the prisoners were forced with the rest of the camp’s inmates on a three-week death march. Fewer than half of the remaining soldiers survived.
Right now, in our country:
You have no clue as to what really happened. For people to wave a Nazi flag in this country is bad.
A Confederate flag, notsomuch.
Confederate sons liberated people from the Nazi death camps. They fought and killed Nazis, and won. That's reality.
Yes, Southern boys killed Nazis and quite well.
You should watch Sergeant York sometime.
The Confederate flag is nowhere near the Nazi flag. It pains me to see them in the same picture. Blacks fought for the Confederacy, too.
You have to understand that there's what really happened, and then what's the revisionist history that's being taught insome state schools. The two are not the same.