We read:
"A Minnesota city councilman has a Confederate flag hanging outside his home and says he’s not taking it down, no matter what people say. “It’s my house,” West St. Paul Councilman Ed Hansen told the Pioneer Press. “What’s the problem?”
Plenty, according to the city’s mayor, John Zanmiller. The flag, visible from a busy avenue and to visitors at a nearby park, also has the word “redneck” written across it. “I don’t like it,” Zanmiller said. “Do I wish the flag wasn’t there? Yes.”
While the mayor acknowledged he is not aware of any complaints made to the city, he reached out to Hansen on Friday about taking it down. Hansen declined, and Zanmiller acknowledged the decision is ultimately Hansen’s.
Hansen, a first-term councilman elected in 2010, told the Pioneer Press he put the flag outside his house over the summer to no complaints. He said being an elected official should not matter one way or another. “It represents sovereignty, individual rights and individual liberty,” he told the newspaper. “It’s my free speech, and that’s my choice.”
He dismissed any racist connotation the flag carries. “I’m not a racist, and I don‘t think it’s racist,” he said. “People like to play the race card, though, when they don’t get their way.”
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11 comments:
AMEN! Finally someone who is not afraid to say it like it is!
Stand your ground, Sir!
No, he's not a racist, but I'm sure he got himself put on some terrorist watch list by the Imperial Federal Government.
-L
I totally agree with the councilman, although i see no need to put "redneck" on the flag, as that's not how it was created.
The flag has been deomnized by leftists and racists causing the weak-minded American people to forget how many tens-of-thousands of brave "Americans" died fighting for it and what it meant to them.
The MSM won't talk about that. They'll only expose you to what their fellow communists and the professional race-pimps have to say. To them, everything they disagre with is racist. Just remember;
"Beware of those who cry racism, for they are the true racists..."
It's odd how it takes someone from the ultra-liberal state of Minn. to stand up for the Confederate flag. That doesn't say much for todays southerners.
Yes indeed yankee Just how many of these race baiters like jackson and sharpton are racsists and what about the NAACP,NATION of ISLAM and BLACK PANTHERS as well
It is really lovely that racists congregate here on this blog. Such a sense of community.
"many blacks are proud of their heritage"
What is the percentage? How did you get your information?
The only state that didn't commit an act of treason by joining the CSA was Texas, who had an escape clause in their agreement to join the USA. Every single national officeholder and general grade officer of the Confederacy should have been taken out and hung. Period.
The Confederate battle standard my not make you a racist, but you are supporting traitors.
Just like that kid who was told to remove the american flag from his bike becuase some whinning little patietards complained Look how many came out to his defense The ones who turned in the complaints need to appoligise for being such a bunch of idiots
so he has to take it down because the mayor "doesn't like it" (the mayor's exact statement.
Doesn't sound very much like a freedom loving state of mind to me.
That mayor should be recalled for violating the constitution.
The Councilman has removed the flag.
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_19958052?source=most_viewed
The constitution should be recalled for violating the mayor.
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