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Remove Flag in Chicago?

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  1. Trevor Monreal
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    7/10/2015 9:07 AM
    [size=130">I don't know what flag they are flying in Chicago but whatever one it is, it needs to come down...[/size">

    [img">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30950781/CHI_Headline_2015.jpg[/img">



  2. Clay Putnam
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    33 posts
    7/10/2015 3:07 PM
    Brilliant...



  3. Stephen Okula
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    3 posts
    7/10/2015 3:07 PM
    Clay, what's your point?



  4. Clay Putnam
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    7/10/2015 8:07 PM
    At the risk of being Mr. Obvious - the Confederate flag "was the motivation" for the violence in SC - find and remove the secret flag in Chicago and, boom, violence gone.



  5. Melvin Waldron
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    7/11/2015 11:07 AM
    Clay Putnam, CGCS said: At the risk of being Mr. Obvious - the Confederate flag "was the motivation" for the violence in SC - find and remove the secret flag in Chicago and, boom, violence gone.
    Thing Clay, there is no secret flag, just very loose gun laws outside of Chicago, which allows for guns to find there way easily into the city. My opinion, this last violent act was the final straw for that flag which should have been taken down long ago from any government building that belongs to all of us. It's easy for a bunch of white guys to be indifferent one way or another, but to a couple of generations of black Americans, that flag was a symbol of hate, used in some cases by the KKK for their symbol (yea I know they used the American flag too, and I guess you want that taken down? That is a stupid argument, ), while they terrorized blacks, and then it was used as symbol by the states toward the federal government during the civil rights era, those generations of black Americans understood what that flag/symbol meant. And that is was still flying over buildings that are just as much as theirs as those that support the flag as a symbol is why it needed to be taken down. It should have been down long before this one incident. Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  6. Trevor Monreal
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    5 posts
    7/11/2015 1:07 PM
    Melvin Waldron, CGCS said: ...My opinion, this last violent act was the final straw for that flag which should have been taken down long ago from any government building that belongs to all of us.

    The flag was removed from atop the capitol "building" in 2000 and installed on a flag pole at a Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the capitol.
    But hey...facts don't matter too much. Let's keep focusing on peripheral issues rather than getting to the core of these problems.
    Hmmm...I wonder why the community in Charleston came together in a way that Baltimore didn't (and I'm not talking about the flag).
    Faith? Family? That's crazy talk.
    Let's keep looking for those secret flags, turn in all our guns and, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just about gender fluid at this point...



  7. Clay Putnam
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    33 posts
    7/11/2015 2:07 PM
    Mel, look over your shoulder. That whoosh was the point flying by.



  8. Keith Lamb
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    7/11/2015 4:07 PM
    Trevor Monreal said:
    Melvin Waldron, CGCS said: ...My opinion, this last violent act was the final straw for that flag which should have been taken down long ago from any government building that belongs to all of us.

    The flag was removed from atop the capitol "building" in 2000 and installed on a flag pole at a Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the capitol.
    But hey...facts don't matter too much. Let's keep focusing on peripheral issues rather than getting to the core of these problems.
    Hmmm...I wonder why the community in Charleston came together in a way that Baltimore didn't (and I'm not talking about the flag).
    Faith? Family? That's crazy talk.
    Let's keep looking for those secret flags, turn in all our guns and, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just about gender fluid at this point...


    The "Flag" was raised over the statehouse in 1961 to commemorate the Civil War centennial and to protest the civil rights movement. The following year, lawmakers pass a law requiring that it continue to fly. I mean....how dare the black man have the same rights as the white man. In 2000 after large protests and continuous tries to have it removed over the past 30 years, the Senate removes its Confederate flag June 30. The House follows July 1. The Confederate flag is lowered from the Statehouse dome. Moments later, Civil War re-enactors raise a smaller, square version of the flag nearby. It's the South Carolina Infantry Battle Flag, and it's on a 30-foot flagpole at the Confederate Soldier Monument directly in front of the Statehouse, along a busy streets. The flag can be lowered only with approval of the Legislature. June 18, 2015 — Gov. Nikki Haley orders the state and U.S. flags at the Statehouse lowered to half-staff for nine days to honor the dead. The Confederate flag doesn't move because of the 2000 compromise, which requires Legislative approval to lower it. But hey....they're just facts. BTW....What are the core problems? He's not taking your guns and congratulations on the gender fluidity......mighty progressive of you.



  9. Trevor Monreal
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    7/12/2015 6:07 AM
    Keith Lamb said: ...But hey....they're just facts...

    Yes Keith. Thank you for expanding on exactly what I said.
    I'm curious...but not really, did you read my post??
    Anywho, thanks for the history lesson.
    Now excuse me, I need to use the Ladies room.
    That's the one wearing the dress...for now.
    I find that offensively sexist...



  10. Keith Lamb
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    3 posts
    7/12/2015 9:07 AM
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201507/the-tragedy-southern-cultural-obsession



  11. Melvin Waldron
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    7/12/2015 12:07 PM
    Keith Lamb said: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201507/the-tragedy-southern-cultural-obsession


    Thanks for posting Keith, great article.

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  12. Keith Lamb
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    3 posts
    7/13/2015 2:07 PM
    Another great article.

    https://thsppl.com/i-racist-538512462265



  13. Steven Kurta
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    2 posts
    7/13/2015 4:07 PM
    Test pattern



  14. Steven Kurta
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    8/2/2015 6:08 AM
    via reddit:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ ... has_a_gun/

    comments are gold, as usual--



  15. Frank McQuiggan
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    8/3/2015 12:08 PM
    Can't "WE" as americans, which is what each and everyone of us is, Just get along with each other. As the good book says "love thy neighbor as you love yourself"



  16. Clay Putnam
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    33 posts
    8/3/2015 2:08 PM
    Frank McQuiggan said: Can't "WE" as americans, which is what each and everyone of us is, Just get along with each other. As the good book says "love thy neighbor as you love yourself"


    No. Gang culture and crazy know no love.



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