re: Ole Miss removes state flag

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Yeah, slavery. Real proud legacy to stand for

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The vast majority of southerners weren't slave owners. Also, there were slaves in the North as well, so I don't see how slavery is a southern legacy.

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Slavery IS the Confederacy's legacy. Democracy IS America's legacy.

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Because when I think of the confederacy, I think of slavery. And when I think of America, I think of democracy..IS your opinion always FACT?

Oh look, people offended at people offended. The horror!

Looks like Coon is president of the College Democrats, not naacp.

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The vast majority of southerners weren't slave owners. Also, there were slaves in the North as well, so I don't see how slavery is a southern legacy.

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Mississippi's stated reasons for seceding:

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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth… These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

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Texas

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The servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations.

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South Carolina

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Those [Union] States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.

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Georgia

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That reason was [the North's] fixed purpose to limit, restrain, and finally abolish slavery in the States where it exists. The South with great unanimity declared her purpose to resist the principle of prohibition to the last extremity.

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And Georgia and Texas (respectably in the quotes) stated their want to expand it:

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We had acquired a large territory by successful war with Mexico; Congress had to govern it; how, in relation to slavery, was the question then demanding solution. Northern anti-slavery men of all parties asserted the right to exclude slavery from the territory by Congressional legislation and demanded the prompt and efficient exercise of this power to that end. This insulting and unconstitutional demand was met with great moderation and firmness by the South. We had shed our blood and paid our money for its acquisition; we demanded a division of it… or an equal participation in the whole of it. The price of the acquisition was the blood and treasure of both sections-- of all, and, therefore, it belonged to all upon the principles of equity and justice.

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The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretenses and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slaveholding States.

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Also, there were slaves in the North as well, so I don't see how slavery is a southern legacy.

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Then you are delusional if you can't see it. America has a history spanning 240 years. The Confederacy was only 4 and fighting mostly for slavery. One only spent a 1/3 of it's lifespan making parts of it slavery legal, while the other spent all of it's time making all of it's territories slave friendly and wanted to expand it. I think it's very fair criticism.

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I'd be shocked if Mississippi had its same flag this time next year, so I doubt it.

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Heard that several times before...

Same difference.

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Because when I think of the confederacy, I think of slavery. And when I think of America, I think of democracy..IS your opinion always FACT?

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So you really don't think that 90% of the world doesn't think this way? The Confederacy was a state founded in direct response to slavery. America was founded in direct response to all people having a say in how they were represented by the government instead of having kings and lords. It was the first democracy done on such a grand scale (so spare me anyplace that would take less than a week on horseback to cross). I agree it was founded with hypocrisy, due to slavery and women not being able to vote, but hey it was a start, and the world largely followed suite after that.

I read where the OM SJW Coon said he planed on removing every symbol of the Confederacy from the Ole Miss campus. This is the reason you cannot give an inch with his kind. There is no middle ground.

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So you really don't think that 90% of the world doesn't think this way?

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I haven't surveyed 90% of the world, but I'm glad you have and are willing to put there opinions online. The confederacy was founded because of disagreement between states and federal government, and those disagreements include slavery but also many others (taxes). America split away from Britain soon after Somerset v. Stewart, so does that mean the US was founded in direct response to slavery (most of the founding fathers had slaves, right)? and not because it wanted to be the democracy that the "world largely followed suite" of...after multiple bombing raids?