Petition to Ban Confederate Flag from Walton County Courthouse

[mputnal]

Are you able to post your own views and observations without being so negative about others here? You are making a lot of assumptions about others who see things differently than you do. The idea here is to share your ideas. Not criticize the ideas of fellow posters.

Everyone has their own perspective. Respect that. Share your own. Respectfully. And with passion if you wish..

Teresa, Please go back and read all these posts to find negativity. I thought I was trying to be positive and unifying as a species but as you know it is hard to do when a topic keeps going back and forth and back and forth. It is like you are asking me to not be negative while others keep sounding off plenty of negativity. I am surprised that you would call me out on this and not others. I understand both sides and respect both sides. Don't always use the correct words but attempt to bring people together than apart. If this forum is open to all opinions as you say then I should be able to respond without you telling me to stop being negative.

I agree with many of your ideas but not all. I agree to disagree and stop this back and forth. As you can see there are two sides to this issue with neither side having any moral high ground (just ideas, opinions and yes bias). Can we let this die an honorable and respectful death or not?

 

[poppy]

Poppy, poppy poppy and all you deflaggers!?! I now see that it is not compassion that drives you but an extreme misguided passion. Yes, by continuing to try and link the Confederate Flag with the kkk, white supremists, Isis and all of racism is at the least ironic if not hypocritical. You do not want to talk about mental health, gun safety and the existence of racism in society. I have asked you, no make that challenged you to give us a story where you have actually shown respect toward African Americans because this spewing of your compassion to destroy an entire history and culture is getting old. Again, I ask that you tell us a story where you have hired, invited over for dinner, supported the NAACP or Black Panthers or just have conversations with African Americans to back up your passion against racism. Voting for President Obama does not give you a shield against your own biases and prejudices and even racism. Be truthful about your passion against racism and how to rid society of it. Removing the Confederate Flag is now becoming just a way for you deflaggers to cover up for something else (and I for one am not buying it).

Hey, don't buy it, I don't care. Your post is further proof that you are clueless on this issue. It's not about what I or anyone else has done personally for an African American, a Mexican, an Asian, a member of the LBGT community or any other identity, race, or nationality you can name. It is about respect and equal treatment of our fellow man, all of them. Here is quote from one your posts to Teresa. See if you can spot the hypocrisy.

Please try not to project what you think our Confederate Ancestors would want to do with the Confederate Flag. My opinion is that they would fly the Confederate Flag out of respect for those that died.

If these videos of your fellow flag defenders are making you uncomfortable, good! Clueless isn't the correct word, willful ignorance is better suited.

 

[Jdarg]

"Willful ignorance" pretty much sums it all up.

 

[mputnal]

Hey, don't buy it, I don't care. Your post is further proof that you are clueless on this issue. It's not about what I or anyone else has done personally for an African American, a Mexican, an Asian, a member of the LBGT community or any other identity, race, or nationality you can name. It is about respect and equal treatment of our fellow man, all of them. Here is quote from one your posts to Teresa. See if you can spot the hypocrisy.If these videos of your fellow flag defenders are making you uncomfortable, good! Clueless isn't the correct word, willful ignorance is better suited.

It should be about what you and I and the rest of us have done to break through the chains of racism. We are all in this together. We have to have tolerance of others (all others). None of us are perfect in behavior. We have to work at it every day but to profile, label, project, ridicule and generally be unaware of our own behavior is not going to work very well. This should be about our actions to solve problems not our words and symbols.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Regardless of anything else, removing the Confederate trafficking in persons flag over the monument at the Walton County courthouse is the right thing to do. Trying to cause a distractions with irrelevant side issues and poorly formed analogies only serves to make one look foolish.

 

[mputnal]

Poppy, I do not follow you regarding my post to Teresa. My only point is that we have enough trouble just understanding ourselves rather than trying to "know" what our ancestors would think. See, it was not enough for myself and others to agree with removing the flag from the courthouse out of respect. You want to continue this attack on my character because I happen to have a different perspective than you. And I am sorry but that is the hypocrisy in your position otherwise we would just agree that we share a different perspective. What is it that you really want to say because I feel you have a lot of passion about something else entirely?

 

[mputnal]

Regardless of anything else, removing the Confederate trafficking in persons flag over the monument at the Walton County courthouse is the right thing to do. Trying to cause a distractions with irrelevant side issues and poorly formed analogies only serves to make one look foolish.

I am not sure what you mean by "trafficking in persons" but I agree with everything else. However, by making that statement we now have to practice what we preach!

 

[mputnal]

"Willful ignorance" pretty much sums it all up.

Exactly my point but I try to use less inflammatory words when possible. I guess you and poppy think alike.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

I am not sure what you mean by "trafficking in persons" but I agree with everything else. However, by making that statement we now have to practice what we preach!

Slavery is trafficking in persons. I do practice what I preach. I don't engage in it or support it.

 

[mputnal]

Slavery is trafficking in persons. I do practice what I preach. I don't engage in it or support it.

What do you do as for as actions or is it all words?