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Let's Burn Their Flag

Let's burn their flag
  their Confederate flag
The flag of traitors, of betrayers
  Let's burn their flag

Let's light them on fire
  their Confederate flags
The flags of those who humiliated
  the once-noble African race
  selling them down-river at auctions
Let's light their Confederate flags on fire

These traitors hated all blacks -- in THAT, 
they were unbiased -- I've witnessed the 
snarl on their lips trying to say '*****,' 
spitting out, contemptuously, 'Ni-gra.'
 

These betrayers pleaded 'States Rights'
when they knew damn well that no
state has the right to grant freedom 
to some, while denying it to others,
whose blood is as red as their brothers...

So, let's burn their flags
  their Confederate flags
Let's burn them all, light them on fire
  and ban them forever and aye

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Lindsay Laurie

Date: 7/13/2020 7:50:00 PM

Hello Gershon … looking in from the outside it doesn't seem that the American people have never united after the civil war if symbols are still causing provocation. I hope for the sake of the nation an answer can be found - thanks Gershon - Lindsay

Rico Leffanta

Date: 7/12/2020 2:46:00 PM

The requirement for an happy life is to learn from our mistakes; how can that be achieved by destroying the evidence? Aloha! Rico

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/12/2020 3:45:00 PM

You know, you've made a good point here, Rico! A very good point. In fact, you are the voice of reason, while mine was the voice of the angry mob. Perhaps "retired, but remembered in order to learn from" is the best way to treat the Confederate Flag. Kudos to you for such an insightful comment! Thank you so much. ~ Chagrined, but glad of it, Gershon

Michael Tor

Date: 7/10/2020 4:45:00 PM

Gershon your passion for injustice is written here my friend. It really is a very offensive flag.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/10/2020 7:05:00 PM

We may not always agree on everything, Michael, (unlike our agreement here), but thank you for noticing the passion for injustice. Thanks for the sensitivity. Blessings, Gershon

Anthony Biaanco

Date: 7/10/2020 4:03:00 PM

Amen

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/10/2020 7:04:00 PM

Thanks for the affirmation, Anthony! :) gw

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 7/10/2020 3:51:00 PM

I would not be opposed to burning the electoral college either. Has no one figured out that this was also an idea incorporated by brazen slave owners?

Rico Leffanta
Date: 7/11/2020 3:00:00 PM

Trump's Judiciary have now agreed that the Electoral College can NOT sell their vote to the highest bidder (Russia) but must vote in accordance with the popular vote, so why do we even need an Electoral College?

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/10/2020 7:04:00 PM

Well, for me, I'll stop at the Confederate Flag. Somehow, I don't see the link between the electoral college and 'brazen slave owners,' esp. if you're referring to Washington and Jefferson. Who's to say that you and/or I wouldn't have owned slaves had we lived in the 1700's. Let us reserve judgment on men who fought for the union and great principles that in the future would be realized. OK. I'm off my soapbox now. Happy weekend, Caren! :) gw

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/10/2020 3:18:00 PM

Definitely not the patriotic flag that we want to be under. They lost the war and think they’ve still won. We are the “united” states. This is why the country’s strong, why we still fight for what is right!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/10/2020 7:01:00 PM

I was introduced to this phenomenon very early in life, with visits from my grandmother from Houston, TX every summer. She was an unabashed Confederate supporter, and could not bring herself to say 'Negro,' precisely like the example in the poem... Thanks, Kim!

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 7/10/2020 2:08:00 PM

That is certainly one symbol that can be left in the past. x

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/10/2020 2:39:00 PM

I understand the destruction of a symbol as a statement, I don't understand the deification of a symbol, perhaps we are both naïve to the disturbing depths of human nature.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/10/2020 2:14:00 PM

It certainly is! And I don't get why some burn the American Flag, but no one dares burn the Confederate Flag, the Flag of Traitors, of Cruel Slave-Traders. Don't get it at all. :) Am I Naïve?