The DMV has taken one vote on the matter and it ended in a tie (with one board member absent). It takes a majority to approve a new plate, so the group was one vote short of getting the plate approved. There will be another vote on this matter -- after Governor Perry appoints a new board member in September (to replace one that died recently).
The group is saying they want to honor Southern heritage. I have to wonder though if this is a heritage that should be honored. This battle flag they want to put on Texas plates was the flag of an enemy of the United States. It was also the flag of an army that fought to defend the institution of slavery. And it has been used since the end of the Civil War as an emblem celebrating racism by many racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.
Instead of representing a heritage worthy of honor, this flag is seen as a symbol of hatred by most people these days. And it is a reminder of oppression and segregation to many. Personally, I think it would make just as much sense to put a swastika on a license plate to honor German immigrants in the state -- which would also represent an enemy of this country and oppression of another group (Jews).
Symbols of oppression and bigotry honor no one, and that's what this flag has become. It should never be approved to go on any official state property -- not license plates or anything else.
I forget where I saw it but some guy said they might as well have a license plate with a hanging black man on it.
ReplyDeleteOh fer fuck's sake. THE SOUTH FUCKING ***LOST*** THE FUCKING WAR!!!!!! Why the fuck can't our neighboring fucktards finally fucking ADMIT that?!?!?
ReplyDeleteRebel flags hurt & offend me every fucking bit as much as the "n-word" or "kike" or "spic" or "mick" or "potato-eater." To me, it says nothing about "history," as 99.9% of the mow-rahns who slap rebel flags onto everything that they own don't know JACK SHIT about the ACTUAL history of the CSA/"South" *OR* the United States whatsofuckingEVER!!! And yet, they are not just TOLERATED but ENCOURAGED, even if it's on the sly, by their employers (if they have any), their "peers," and other people who don't have the guts to admit that THEY, TOO, SHARE THOSE TIRED OLD PATHETIC ATTEMPTS AT "SUPERIORITY" BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT NOTHING *ELSE* GOING FOR 'EM!!!!!!
The most pathetic overuse of that battle flag is what is apparently INVISIBLE to its adoring mouth-breathers: IT WAS ONLY USED DURING THE LAST SEVEN OR EIGHT MONTHS OF THE DAMNED WAR!!!!!! When and IF they salute the American flag, do they only use the ones with 48 or 44 or 13 stars on 'em? It'd be about as accurate.
BTW, Jobsanger, one of your visitors came by my pitiful excuse for a blog (at least as judged by traffic and my own pathetic "contributions" lately), which is how I was led back to this wunnerful place to see this post. You must have some really cool readers.
I tell you what REALLY makes ME nauseous... They've been selling those "CHOOSE LIFE" plates here in Lousyana for AGES now, but I have YET, in all my travels & travails, to see a SINGLE ONE THAT SAYS, "CHOOSE CHOICE!" or any other Planned Parenthood slogan. The atheists (don't remember which organization, sorry) were SUPPOSED to have won the right to have their own vanity plate available right next to the ones with bibul-banging imagery & bullshit quotes from fairy-tale books, but I haven't EVER seen one of those. Hell, I finally get back to New Orleans, and there's not even a fucking ACLU OFFICE LEFT IN THE WHOLE FUCKING TRI-PARISH AREA!!! There was supposed to be an ACLU plate, too, but I've never seen hide nor hair of it.
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ReplyDeleteI know, it probably seems trivial, to be fighting over reich-wingers' license plates and wondering why the whole EQUAL ACCESS concept is so utterly and blatantly IGNORED, if not completely fucking ERASED by the bureaucrat-rats in question, but this "Sons of the Confederacy" bullshit just re-highlights the problem with deeply-entrenched/FAR-from-deserving "tenure" bureaucrats who make sure that THEIR cults/obsessions/inadequacies/fetishes get INSTITUTIONALIZED, whilst shitting all over the laws that made THEIR public displays of ignorance possible.
A plate with a lynching victim wouldn't be too far off the beam, either. If I have to listen to the Fallen Uterus parroting the utter IGNORANCE and ILLITERACY that's burned into her brain on an hourly basis by her beady-eyed, no-neck, mouth-breathing, knuckle-walking Almighty Son-King just ONE MORE FUCKING TIME, y'all really WILL see me on the national nightly news. The bitch has never even SEEN "Birth Of A Nation," but she STILL keeps trying to pound that BULLSHIT into my head about how the Klan was "really" set-up to PROTECT SOUTHERNERS FROM RAPING & PILLAGING RECONSTRUCTION CARPETBAGGERS, and that the Jim Crow laws OBVIOUSLY weren't "enough" to "keep law & order," etc. etc. etc. watch me barf my fucking TOES up...
It's horrifying to realize, or to be forced to REMEMBER, that these idiots are STILL OUT THERE, and half of 'em are RIGHT NEXT DOOR. If they wanna go back to "separatism," I've got a suggestion: MANDATORY STERILIZATION OF ALL ILLITERATE REDNECKS WHO'VE EVER OWNED ***ANYTHING*** WITH THAT BATTLE FLAG ON IT!!!!!! Fuck, it's worth a shot, ain't it? Not like the FDR gubmint did to the Appalachian people, nope, this shit is PURELY BY DINT OF SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR THAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED AND CAN BE PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW. Wanna talk about "pride not prejudice"? Yeah, let's see YOUR bumperstickers, motherfucker. Let's ask your many mouth-breathing, under-educated spawn what Mama & Daddy have taught THEM about "OTHER" people.
THEN we get out those old hoof nippers and CUT THEM TEENY TESTES OFF in ONE FELL SWOOP. If we're feeling merciful, we can heat 'em up over a good flame, so that it'll cauterize as it cuts. Well, hell, that's what they used to do to SHEEP, it seems PERFECT for THIS bunch!