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| House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 19 2016, 01:42 PM (415 Views) | |
| Dem4life | May 19 2016, 01:42 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/house-votes-to-restrict-confederate-flag-in-national-cemeteries/ar-BBtdTmL?ocid=spartandhp |
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| clone | May 19 2016, 01:43 PM Post #2 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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Why are so many people on the left concerned with how others choose to live their lives...or death? |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 19 2016, 01:46 PM Post #3 |
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The House approved a Democratic proposal on Thursday to limit the display of the Confederate flag in national cemeteries. A majority of Republicans rejected Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to a spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and military construction projects in the 265-159 vote. A total of 158 Republicans opposed it, while 84 Republicans joined all but one Democrat in support. One lawmaker voted "present." ... Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Huffman offered his amendment to prohibit the large-scale display of the Confederate flag in cemeteries run by the VA, such as flying the banner over mass graves. It would, however, still allow families to place small Confederate flags on individual graves on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day. "Over 150 years ago, slavery was abolished. Why in the year 2016 are we still condoning displays of this hateful symbol on our sacred national cemeteries?" Huffman asked while unveiling his amendment. No one spoke in opposition to Huffman's amendment during floor debate. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) initially tried to offer an amendment to modify Huffman's proposal. But after nearly five minutes of hurried discussion among Republicans that temporarily halted proceedings, Mulvaney ended up withdrawing his amendment. Yet behind the scenes, some Republicans vehemently pushed against Huffman's amendment. A top staffer for Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) compared the effort to ban the Confederate flag to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists engaging in cultural cleansing. "You know who else supports destroying history so that they can advance their own agenda? ISIL. Don't be like ISIL. I urge you to vote NO," Westmoreland's legislative director, Pete Sanborn, wrote in a missive provided to The Hill, using an alternate acronym for ISIS. He signed the email as "Yours in freedom from the PC police." |
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| coverpoint | May 19 2016, 01:50 PM Post #4 |
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Nice to see that Speaker Ryan is not bound by the "Hassert" rule and will allow bills that the majority of Republicans oppose but the majority of the House supports, receive an up or down vote. He seems to have learned from Congressman Boehner's mistakes. |
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| clone | May 19 2016, 01:51 PM Post #5 |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 19 2016, 01:53 PM Post #6 |
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It's funny how republican voters think the gop cares about Veterans... |
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| George Aligator | May 19 2016, 02:36 PM Post #7 |
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There is no doubt that the Confederate flag stands for something that many Americans feel strongly about, but exactly what that something is, we don't seem able to put into words satisfactorily. Black folks don't like whatever the flag stands for and it seems that the Democratic Party is enthusiastic about retiring the symbol as a substiute for doing something about the lingering effects of the Confederate social system. It's cynical. |
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| coverpoint | May 19 2016, 02:52 PM Post #8 |
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“…it seems that the Democratic Party is enthusiastic about retiring the symbol as a substiute for doing something about the lingering effects of the Confederate social system. It's cynical.” What? Desegregation of public schools, the Voting Rights Act, public access and public accommodation laws, the Civil Rights Commission, Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Title IX and the Fair Housing Act were not “doing something about the lingering effects of the Confederate social system”? |
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| Freaks | May 19 2016, 04:40 PM Post #9 |
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It seems tacky to fly an enemy flag in a national ceremony, yes. |
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"I'll be the fella to save his Cinderella, by turnin' her dream world into real life." | |
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| Eddo26 | May 19 2016, 04:55 PM Post #10 |
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Isn't this the Confederate flag?
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| George Aligator | May 19 2016, 05:25 PM Post #11 |
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One notes with some disappointment that the Confederate flag waved proudly while all those noble programs were inaugurated. That was then. The cascading indigniation over the flag has occurred when voting rights have been gutted and various safety net programs of disproportionate importance to black citizens have bee cut back. Police violence against blacks and revived acceptance of explicit racism have had flag banning as their principal, ceremonial response. |
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| coverpoint | May 19 2016, 05:35 PM Post #12 |
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“…when voting rights have been gutted and various safety net programs of disproportionate importance to black citizens have bee cut back. Police violence against blacks and revived acceptance of explicit racism…” It was not the Democratic Party that gutted the voting rights act or various safety net programs nor have they been silent about police violence toward African-Americans. They are, in fact, the only political group opposing those actions. |
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| Robert Stout | May 20 2016, 12:18 AM Post #13 |
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The national policy of "benign neglect" of black great expectations has the support of both political parties...Slave reparations is a running joke in Congress.............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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