Grocery store displays confederate flag cake in its bakery

[barnbuddy]

Amazing how people forget that hundreds of thousand of young men, in their prime, were maimed or killled defeating the rebels (yeah they were rebels) that started the Civil War.

 

[Joshua_me]

Who would buy a cake with pumpkins and sunflowers on it?

It's pre-made, so I assume there's a market for such things....

Scary.

Why do you have to be such a bitch all of the time ?

 

[operafan]

It is offensive. It's a way of praising racism and getting by with it because it is "Southern culture."

 

[hotdog1846]

It is offensive. It's a way of praising racism and getting by with it because it is "Southern culture."

I'm a native Coloradan, a child of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and my ancestors came from Iowa. I appreciate ronboy's insight here ... I remember being in Winn-Dixie stores in the mid 70s (they really do cater to the Old South), and I also remember being amazed as a boy as I watched TV news about integration (busing, desegregation, etc) that anyone could think black people weren't as good as anyone else.

I remember visiting the South in the mid 70s and having people shut us out because our license plates were from somewhere else. I remember being at a segregated high-end club in Birmingham in 1976 that insisted that the wait staff be all black, because the rich white people "wanted it that way" ... blacks wait on whites, end of discussion. I couldn't understand why.

I have to admit, I see Confederate flags the same way as operafan. I interpret them as a symbol of an economy and social structure that had racism at its core. To me, it's an offensive symbol of structural oppression and hatred.

 

[Joshua_me]

Confederate flags represent three things.

1) The south is gonna rise again

2) No black people

3) No faggots


That is the [STRIKE]Palin[/STRIKE] plain truth.