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NAACP Wagging Fingers At NASCAR
NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight
Members of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP want the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway, and they will meet Thursday to decide whether to boycott a NASCAR race slated there for November.
Debra Toomer, the branch’s chairwoman of press and publicity, said a planning session has been scheduled to decide on a course of action regarding the display of the flag at the Nov. 20-22 event, as well as its presence at city-sponsored events like last year’s Veterans Day parade.
“The concern is there,” Toomer said of Confederate flags. She declined to comment further before the meeting.
Just how much idiocy are people going to put up with? I want all symbols of Africa banned at NAACP events! Oh, but wait…that’s a freedom isn’t it? Hmmm…. There are no Confederate flags on any of the cars, none of the uniforms, none are sold at the concessions, so what’s their problem? I guess it’s ok for some folks to show pride in their heritage, but not others, right?
“… we don’t regulate the lawful behavior of our fans or prohibit free speech and expression of our guests,” Gray told FOXNews.com. “We can’t tell people what to wear. Where do you start? Where does it end, as far as individual expression?”
Evidently, there are some who believe freedom of speech only applies to them, eh? Tell you what….ban every single flag that is NOT the U.S. flag, and we’ll talk. No African, no Mexican, no Irish, no Italian, etc. NONE! Anywhere! EVER!
Brandon Hensler, a spokesman for American Civil Liberties Union’s Florida chapter, said bringing a Confederate flag to the race or any public event would be protected speech.
“If someone wants to show up with a shirt like that, there’d be no legal recourse for that,” Hensler said. “Unless there’s a specific threat, all speech is protected.”
Well, there’s a shocker. One of the few times the ACLU gets it right!
“Any time somebody starts talking about that, of course there’s cause for concern,” McMichael told FOXNews.com. “The bottom line is I don’t think they should ban [Confederate flags] because there’s nothing wrong with them. It’s just people showing pride in their heritage.”
As a proud daughter of the south, I know there are many people who do not understand our love for the Confederate flag, especially those in the north. We don’t look at that flag as a racial division, as most folks down here don’t have issues with anyone, but criminals, no matter what their color. That flag doesn’t represent slavery! It represents freedom from oppression from a tyrannical central government. It really chaps my hide that there are a few groups who have turned it into something else, but I have no control over that, and so far as I know, stupidity isn’t against the law.
H/T: Blue Collar Republican and American and Proud
I have a VERY personal message for the NAACP and ALL of their members…
KISS MY REBEL ASS!!
EXACTLY!
To many, it’s just a flag…
To many, it’s offensive…
I am NOT one of those people. That flag represents one of the most important parts of American history and it is the flag of my forefathers.
I can’t speak for ALL NASCAR fans but I am betting that if NASCAR does acquiesce to the demands of the NAACP, then NASCAR had best be prepared to market their sport on BET, Black Entertainment Network, because there are thousands upon thousands of fans that will abandon NASCAR and finally see the management OF the NASCAR activities for exactly what it is, a money making business that is trying to everything to everyone.
As the saying goes, dance with the one that brung ya!!
It’s our heritage. I will not be ashamed of it, I will not hide it. My front car tag is the Stars and Bars….”American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God”. Do I get looks? Oh, you bet I do, but it is what it is, and I will not remove it!
NASCAR fans were all Southern before they took it nation wide. They can run their business they way they want, but they damn sure better not forget who got ‘em there!
Aw, to Hell with the NAACP. Who cares what they think.
LOL Well, I haven’t for quite a while. Hmmm…. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever given a happy crap what they thought.
Did I really just read that the NAACP is going to BOYCOTT a NASCAR race?
Seriously?
Ill bet you can count on one hand how many black people like NASCAR……………………..period.
ROFLMCLAO!!!
That would be like white supremists saying they were going to boycott a Kanye West concert.
This takes stupidity to a new level lol
Well, that was the ‘plan’ as of last spring. Haven’t heard anything about it since then though.