Confederate Group Plan Gian Flag In Hillsborough County

[Psychoblues]

These idiots are really big in the hills, aren't they?

TAMPA — Next year, a giant Confederate flag may tower above the tree line near the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 4.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants drivers in the Tampa area to see the massive flag — 30 feet high and 50 feet long — atop a 139-foot pole, the highest the Federal Aviation Authority would allow. It would be lit at night.

With the pole already in the ground and building permits in hand, the group is on its way to having what it calls the "world's largest" Confederate flag in place by mid 2009. The group just needs about $30,000 more, said Douglas Dawson, Florida division commander.

Several nearby business owners don't mind. It's history, they say, and it's on private property. Tampa resident Marion Lambert owns the small triangular plot just west of Interstate 75 along U.S. 92 E.

But when Hillsborough County NAACP president Curtis Stokes heard about the plans to have the flag flying next year, he was shocked.

"I'm surprised that they would allow something like this to go on in Hillsborough County," he said.

The county has wrestled with sensitive Confederate issues in the past. In 1994, the Confederate flag was removed from the county seal. Last year, county commissioners recognized Confederate commander Robert E. Lee on the same day they honored a black civic leader. Commissioners later apologized and haven't since recognized Lee.

It's the commissioners' responsibility to make sure plans don't move forward, Stokes said. The flag would send the wrong message about the county and it would be embarrassing because many visitors use the roads, he said.


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Is this the History we want our great grand children to know about?

[Sitarro]

aren't these some of your moonshine drinking, redneck, mud track clowns?

[Psychoblues]

I would suspect that at very least most of them tend towards the Republican ticket.

aren't these some of your moonshine drinking, redneck, mud track clowns?

And I would agree that many of them are probably moonshine drinking, very redneck and otherwise ignorant fools being usurped by a party that knows exactly how to stir up their fears, exaserbate their dilemmas and cause them to vote against their own self interests and support a party that only intends to exploit them. Used car salesmen also really go for that lowest common denominator as well, zero.

[Pale Rider]

[5stringJeff]

The Confederate Flag has nothing to do with white power and everything to do with history. If they want to fly a flag on private property, why is that anyone else's business?

[Abbey Marie]

Whether this is a good idea or not, it's not very logical or consistent to allow people to burn the American flag, but not let them fly the Confederate one.

[Trigg]

These idiots are really big in the hills, aren't they?


Is this the History we want our great grand children to know about?

It' private property.

It is actually about history and YES I do want my great grand children to learn about it. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

What hills are you talking about exactly?? Are you perhaps trying to say these people are dumb????


------------------- Hillscorough Florida US
College/Associate Degree 29.0% 28.8% 27.4%

Bachelor's Degree 16.7% 14.3% 15.5%

Master's or Ph. D. 8.4% 8.1% 8.9%

Total 54.1% 51.2% 51.8%


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsbo...ounty,_Florida

[Pale Rider]

The Confederate Flag has nothing to do with white power and everything to do with history. If they want to fly a flag on private property, why is that anyone else's business?

I think it does... we can have "black theology" but not "white power?" What's the difference? "Black theology" is just a covert name BLACK POWER.

We can have frothing at the mouth blacks like reverend wright screaming his racist rants from the pulpit of a church to thousands of cheering black people, but blacks have a problem with somebody flying a legitimate American southern states battle flag? It's one more example of the MASSIVE double standard in this country. Blacks can say and do whatever the hell they want, but if you're white, you so much as utter something derogatory about a black in hushed tones to a friend and you'll be labeled a RACIST!

[Pale Rider]

Whether this is a good idea or not, it's not very logical or consistent to allow people to burn the American flag, but not let them fly the Confederate one.

EXCELLENT point Abbey....

You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Abbey again.

... I'll have to catch ya later. This post deserved rep. It's the kind of logic that just slaps a person in the face right between the eyes.

[actsnoblemartin]

Black fuckers but no white theology?

[Mr. P]

The Sons of Confederate Veterans want to erect a flag in honor or recognition of those vets...what's the big deal, Psycho?

Another group that deserve recognition and honor, the Tuskegee Airmen. All Black pilots and they never lost a plane they escorted in WWII..!

[actsnoblemartin]

Political correctness.

Thats why

very sad actually.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans want to erect a flag in honor or recognition of those vets...what's the big deal, Psycho?

Another group that deserve recognition and honor, the Tuskegee Airmen. All Black pilots and they never lost a plane they escorted in WWII..!

[Abbey Marie]

EXCELLENT point Abbey....



... I'll have to catch ya later. This post deserved rep. It's the kind of logic that just slaps a person in the face right between the eyes.

Thanks, Pale.

[5stringJeff]

I think it does... we can have "black theology" but not "white power?" What's the difference? "Black theology" is just a covert name BLACK POWER.

You can have white power if you'd like... just don't use the flag that my ancestors fought for as a symbol for it.

[Mr. P]

You can have white power if you'd like... just don't use the flag that my ancestors fought for as a symbol for it.

There ya go! The Klan hijacked it once, that shouldn't be allowed to happen again.