All the rage right now in Texas is whether or not we should be able to allow for purchase a Texas license plate with the Confederate battle flag on it. The weird part is a Texas politico dreamed this disaster up. Wait... I just thought about that. It is not weird; it is par for the course. I digress...
1) That flag never flew over Texas. 2) The United States of America would no more allow a flag of a country that attacked us be flown than it would admit that there is a problem in the general tax code but we are actually debating this. 3)The Civil War was in part over State's Rights as the pedantic few keep whining about but it was over State's Rights TO OWN SLAVES!! To pretend that this flag is a "proud part of your heritage" or a symbols of Southern charm is clearly indicative that you were not paying attention in history class (any of them).
So it may not be fair and it may not be open-minded but when I see someone with that goofy flag plastered on their bikini, truck, beer koozie I am already in the process of formulating an opinion of them and it usually entails a tattooed rose on a tube-topped boob, a trailer house with some rusty cars out front, and an impoverished teeth to head ratio in the adult population. When I see that flag on something I am already informed that this person is either comfortable with the thought that other people (probably themselves as well) can be used and degraded at the leisure of the wealthy or that they are too lazy and ignorant to explore the meaning of a losing battle flag and what history has told us.
I had a segue into calendar people but I am going to stop this here for now.... one tirade at a time.
1) That flag never flew over Texas. 2) The United States of America would no more allow a flag of a country that attacked us be flown than it would admit that there is a problem in the general tax code but we are actually debating this. 3)The Civil War was in part over State's Rights as the pedantic few keep whining about but it was over State's Rights TO OWN SLAVES!! To pretend that this flag is a "proud part of your heritage" or a symbols of Southern charm is clearly indicative that you were not paying attention in history class (any of them).
So it may not be fair and it may not be open-minded but when I see someone with that goofy flag plastered on their bikini, truck, beer koozie I am already in the process of formulating an opinion of them and it usually entails a tattooed rose on a tube-topped boob, a trailer house with some rusty cars out front, and an impoverished teeth to head ratio in the adult population. When I see that flag on something I am already informed that this person is either comfortable with the thought that other people (probably themselves as well) can be used and degraded at the leisure of the wealthy or that they are too lazy and ignorant to explore the meaning of a losing battle flag and what history has told us.
I had a segue into calendar people but I am going to stop this here for now.... one tirade at a time.
By the way, upon the vote by the Board at DPS it was defeated 8-0.
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