Namaste and welcome to another posting for the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. Thank you for joining me today for this short posting.
My ancestor Laughlin McLaren fought for the Union in the Civil War. He fought for the rights of everyone to remain one country and to have equal rights that are preserved by the Constitution of the United States of America. The Union won the war, but the south remained prideful of their heritage and still in many places continue to raise the Confederate flag to this day.
It saddens me that when we are supposed to have the first amendment right to freedom of speech and expression that we are even having a debate about whether or not to take down this flag. Who is it hurting? This attack on the Confederate flag is nothing short of an attack on basic civil rights... which are trying to be taken away... and for what? Because some asshole shot up a church in S. Carolina? Because HE was a racist doesn't mean that is what the flag is a symbol of. Don't get me wrong, I lived in the South for a while and I don't really see the issue with a piece of cloth. For some it may represent negativity like slavery and racism, but I don't really get that feeling from most of the people from the South. It's just a piece of cloth material. It only has the meaning and value that YOU put to it. Should they wave the flag around like they did back in the day? Maybe not. It is however not up to you and I to decide to take away someone's heritage and ancestry over the actions of one stupid person who is a racist bigot.
I don't have much else to say except that I think we as a nation need to focus on the basic civil rights we have and stop trying to take them away from others even if our beliefs are different from theirs. The Bill of Rights is to protect the rights of EVERYONE, not just a select few, and not just because we differ in opinions based upon where we live and how we were raised. After all this is the land of the free and home of the brave. It isn't the land of the free any longer if we continue to try and allow to be destroyed our basic human rights; the Bill of Rights.
My ancestor Laughlin McLaren fought for the Union in the Civil War. He fought for the rights of everyone to remain one country and to have equal rights that are preserved by the Constitution of the United States of America. The Union won the war, but the south remained prideful of their heritage and still in many places continue to raise the Confederate flag to this day.
It saddens me that when we are supposed to have the first amendment right to freedom of speech and expression that we are even having a debate about whether or not to take down this flag. Who is it hurting? This attack on the Confederate flag is nothing short of an attack on basic civil rights... which are trying to be taken away... and for what? Because some asshole shot up a church in S. Carolina? Because HE was a racist doesn't mean that is what the flag is a symbol of. Don't get me wrong, I lived in the South for a while and I don't really see the issue with a piece of cloth. For some it may represent negativity like slavery and racism, but I don't really get that feeling from most of the people from the South. It's just a piece of cloth material. It only has the meaning and value that YOU put to it. Should they wave the flag around like they did back in the day? Maybe not. It is however not up to you and I to decide to take away someone's heritage and ancestry over the actions of one stupid person who is a racist bigot.
I don't have much else to say except that I think we as a nation need to focus on the basic civil rights we have and stop trying to take them away from others even if our beliefs are different from theirs. The Bill of Rights is to protect the rights of EVERYONE, not just a select few, and not just because we differ in opinions based upon where we live and how we were raised. After all this is the land of the free and home of the brave. It isn't the land of the free any longer if we continue to try and allow to be destroyed our basic human rights; the Bill of Rights.
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