Dick cheney and confederate flag

You are commenting using your WordPress. Notify me of new comments via email. Ebay says it will stop offering Confederate items for electronic auction. Black soldiers who pushed back against such Dixie-ism were subject to insult and abuse. There, he led a detachment of Texans against the Spanish. Still, some Dutchess County residents blasted the vice president for taking part in what they called a canned hunt. Earlier, when slavery was still a going concern, southerners had yearned to separate Cuba from Spain and turn it into a slave state.

America's Most Embattled Emblem , p. Thompson, editor of the Savannah Daily Morning News , who called it 'the White Man's Flag' and argued that it represented 'the cause of a superior race and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism' — a bit of racist rhetoric that is plainly unacceptable in current public discource. Not much of a controversy, it must be said, but just enough of one to focus attention once more on the vice-president's passion for killing birds. The " Van Dorn battle flag " was also carried by Confederate troops fighting in the Trans-Mississippi and Western theaters of war.