Is this a case of double standard?
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (113001)
El Paso, Texas
July 30, 2016 3:30pm CST
I don’t get it, a few months ago there was all that big kadunk about the Confederate battle flag and a whole lotta people decided it needed to be removed, they claimed it was offensive to anyone whose African American.
And yet, no one has protested the existence of the White House, why? Isn’t that also offensive to them? It was built predominately by Slaves with the exception of the repairs done on 9/11. Does this make sense to you?
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Jul 16
Yes, the stars and bars are considered offensive but the racist slogan Black Lives Matter isn't?
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
That's a really good point @JohnRoberts ..... it seems so funny to me that it's always a black n white situation, I've never seen anything by Native Americans who've been treated worse than any of the others in this land of ours and have more of a right to complain than the rest of them.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
31 Jul 16
@rebelann Exactly. Use the word "all" and no one has a beef. The message they send is only black matters. Okay they hate whites but they are dissing Asians, Hispanics and Middle Easterners.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
31 Jul 16
Slavery existed, which is a fact that cannot be changed simply by rebuilding the establishments related to it.
Personally I would not associate theConfedracy with slavery. Slavery existed throughout the whole country and was only abolished in the Union because Lincoln was worried about the forthcoming election.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
31 Jul 16
@rebelann Surely everyone knows that the Civil War was a war of secession.
Slavery only became a banner quite late in the war. Abraham Lincoln expected to lose the election because the war had been in force for several years and had cost a vast amount of money and lives, yet little progress. His advisors suggested that he abolished slavery as a banner to fly, which he did purely to protect his political career.
His advisors had suggested abolishing slavery for a long time, but he was not interested until it served a purpose in his career, yet people seem to consider he actually cared about the slaves.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
That is a very good point @Asylum I've read several articles about how the cotton production of the south is what motivated the whole war in the first place, the north had no such means to support themselves so naturally they couldn't allow the south to secede from the union.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
31 Jul 16
@rebelann I personally don't care about the history behind it. I know the flag is not for us anyway. Look, we do live in america and it is supposed to be freedom. So, people do what they like. Aside from murder and any other crime, who really cares of someone has a confederate flag in front of their house. I personally don't care.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
A battle flag is not quite the same as a swah sticker.
The swastika is a symbol used by of one of the most hated men on Earth, a symbol that represents the slaughter of millions of people and one of the most destructive wars on Earth.  But Adolf Hitl
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@cyberrat (204)
• Portsmouth, Ohio
31 Jul 16
And seriously if you want to get technical about flags why has the american flag not been changed I'm sure its offensive to native Americans that flag created 1776 Trail of Years occurred between 1831 and 1837 now which flag is more offensive.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
there you go, that too is a fantastic point and I'm happy they're removing Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill, I just wish they'd put a totem on it to commemorate the tribes that were completely wiped out, genocide should NOT go unpunished.1 person likes this
@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
30 Jul 16
A lot of the time when things like the rebel flag blow up in the media it is because bathe government is trying to pass a new bill that isn't good for us and hope we don't notice it. Don't you see it happens a lot like all these viruses pop up like Ebola & then it just goes away & we hear nothing else about it again. I mean Ebola has been around for millions of years but two years ago it was on the rage as a new virus that was blown up to be something that it's not. Now going on two years later and you hear nothing about it or Barry about the flag anymore. Same thing happened with the swine flu & the bathroom law. The media blows them up big for awhile normally around when voting for bills are happening or have happened &I then you hear nothing else about it in the media. I am not saying that this stuff isn't happening or isn't a big deal just that it gets blown way out of proportion to make us not notice other thinks that are just as important.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
Those are some good points. The media always exaggerates the truth so they can make more money, the thing I see is that they try to create a problem so they can profit from the results. They really made a lot of money on all the issues you mentioned.
People in general don't seem to be all that political, I know I'm not, which is how our legislators are able to pass laws or amendments that give to senate and congress members who are most likely the highest paid people in our country and WE fund their wages.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
31 Jul 16
I wuld bet people have protested the existence of the White House at one time or another.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
You could be right, we all know the media only writes about things they can make money off of. I wonder how much of what they write is true.
@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
I think if we stick with archeological magazines we might find some truth @AbbyGreenhill trouble is that's not part of todays world. It's a crying shame that the media always exaggerates the truth so they can make money.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
31 Jul 16
@rebelann I am beginning to wonder if anything we read is true.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
31 Jul 16
sadly most 'f the buildin's 'cross the globe were done by slaves. i've really tired'f all the 'politically correct' schtuff. 's fer the white house? one'd think that such's a monument 'f sorts to those who labored 'n suffered to build't.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
31 Jul 16
I'm sure most here don't realize that the White House was built mainly by slaves. I know I'd not given it any thought, but that would have been the majority of the work force back then.
By the way, the info on your image says you cropped out this part of the picture whic... I think there's plenty of room there for more words, or you could repeat what you were going to say at the end of the post. I'm not sure why you used that particular picture? Is it cuz his paws are making an X ?
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
I suppose you do have a point but I would think that poor folks wouldn't have been able to afford a slave and if I'm not mistaken many colonists were poor and had to build their own residences etc, isn't that true?
Yes, I cropped out this portion of a larger picture mainly because of the way Ally was hiding her eyes, I hadn't noticed the X her paws made until you mentioned it.
OH, I don't usually write posts, I just want to have conversations with people.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
30 Jul 16
The flag in question is strongly anti black (I'm hope I'm not wrong saying that) but the white house is the home of presidents including Obama. Yes it was built by slaves but so was almost everything built in the south. Thank goodness and the laws of the USA, plus the blacks fighting for years and years and years for equality, we don't have slaves anymore.
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Jul 16
I've read that the confederate flag they banned recently was a battle flag, usually battle flags have nothing to do with race. What got my attention was reading that the whole reason for the civil war was because the north did not like the idea that southern territories wanted to break away from them. Had it actually happened and the north had not gotten help from Britain they would have crumbled since almost all the lucrative endeavors were in the south and many southerners were already trying to put an end to slavery.
The only real racism going on was the constant desire of the union forces killing all the Native Americans they could, just look at that history and you'll see what I mean, wasn't Custer union? Wasn't he responsible for the senseless slaughter of native American babies, toddlers, women, old men as well as warriors? Talk about racism. That bozo was a coward attacking villages when the warriors were gone.
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@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
31 Jul 16
Over here we profited a lot by the slave trade...A LOT.
If we had to knock down everything built on slave money there would be some BIG holes in England
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@rebelann (113001)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
Exactly @Mike197602 slavery was never about race, those who won the battle kept the survivors as slaves in many of the cultures around the world and it had nothing to do with skin color.@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
31 Jul 16
people think the slave thing is just a US issue but that is total BS they don't know their history.
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