[lbo-talk] Re: dean and rebel flags

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 7 08:41:52 PST 2003


frank scott wrote:


>liberals, and some others, who need oxygen over this "shocker" should
>understand that many working class folks who sport rebel flags on trucks
>or t-shirts , do so to indicate that they are, ahem, individuals, free,
>not to be pushed around, oakland raider fans, etc., and have nothing -
>absolutely nothing - to do with racism, since the people who sport them
>aren't as sophisticated as liberals and may not know about symbolism
>that is, really, pretty outmoded, for most working class whites and many
>if not most blacks as well...

How do you know this? Have you ever lived in the South?

Doug



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