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 Posted: Mon Apr 3rd, 2006 03:36 am
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Tigerreb
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 When this is brought up, I try and expain why the flag was created and what it tired to represent. Also how some groups (KKK, Nazis, etc) have taken the flag and mis-used it. If all else fails, I explain that the US Flag (the good old stars and stripes) is also rascist, in that slavery was legal under this flag from the creation of the US to 1866 (figure 80 some on years). I also bring up that people representing the US Government flew this flag at the same time they gave smallpox infected blankets to the Indians. Some times it works, sometimes not

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