Confederate Flag? Where?

WHO CARES?

Mr. Sharpton should get a real job instead of playing Chicken Little everyday.

Give it a rest Al.

Is this all that Rev. Sharpton have to do with his day? Has he been in the club to see this flag? Hey Al, when you can get a picture of you holding this flag INSIDE the club, post it somewhere on the web and let me know. Maybe I’ll spend a couple of minutes between 3 and 4am to look and ponder what kind of idiot you really are.

Get over yourself Sharpton! If you would stop keeping the African American race down by constantly reminding them of the fact that their ancestors were slaves, then I think that some of them might just go out and better themselves instead of feeling like they should always live off of the government. I am so tired of crap like this. Holding prayer vigils just because someone has a flag hanging on the wall is dumb. Maybe me and some of my white friends will hold a vigil just because you are still using that “Poor me, my ancestors were slaves” excuse. I’m tired of it. Listen to Bill Cosby for once.

to the da black gavel
why are you so scared to use your real name?????????????

OK wait… this is a story about what Al Sharpton, Dick Cheney, and the friggin’ REPORTER don’t even know to be true? Why exactly is this a story? Slow news day? What happened to — I don’t know — INVESTIGATING a story before publishing it? Maybe a bit of fact checking or something? Are you guys even trying anymore?

Typical…stupid white people always want to “play down” an event or occurance until something happens to one of them, then its “Kill OJ” time! lol…get a grip Opie! Dick is a publicly elected official (they even got some african American votes) and if you affiliate yourself with a place that displays a flag thats has racist conoctations, then you should be ashamed and especially when your own cousin is BLACK (Barack)! How dumb! Way to go Al…im with you all the way baby!

Oh, for Pete’s sake! Blacks are murdering blacks by the hundreds in cities like Philadelphia, and the best that Al Sharpton can do is run around looking for Confederate flags! He would rather run his mouth and cry racist at white people instead of doing anything constructive for his people.

TDef:
You speak as if people of color are not a part of you……Who are you, bud? Do you not belong to the race of humans? Black people and White people are basically the same……believe that? We are all family, buddy….You did not know that? What affect Blacks should affect Whites…..What affect Whites should affect Blacks? Don’t you think? Injustice and hatred anywhere, is a threat to justice and love everywhere……You like that? Hey dudes: the Confederate Flag should no longer fly across America…..And Winn Dixie should stop putting up new groceries stores in the South—or at least change the name…..Dixie lost….remember? They did not win. The Yankees won the Civil War…..So, Winn Dixie and the Confederate Dixie Flag should go away……..

The “good”, and I use quotation marks around the good, rev. has so much spare time, and is constantly searching that will allow him to receive some free space in papers and on the news. He does need to get a job. He stirs up racism where there is none. I don’t know if the man is evil or loves the attention. I know that he is intelligent. I’ve listened to him on talk shows many times. If he had an image, he is making it a negative one.

too much drama…

Just like Al Sharpton has his right and freedom to speak his mind on this issue, so does people have the right and freedom to display the confederate flag. It is a symbol of history, bad or good, it is still a part of this country. We have to learn from these mistakes so we don’t repeat them.

I can name 3 times just off the top of my head where Sharpton has publicly disgraced himself by prematurely embracing false information before all the facts came in:
1. The Tawana Brawley hoax in 1987
2. The Crystal Gail Mangum Duke Lacrosse hoax in 2006
3. The Jena 6 “whites only” tree that never existed and also turned out to be just a hoax in 2007.
He’s now courting number 4.
Yes, Jake, it does seem rash to say the least. You’d think he’d have hired his own fact checking swat team by now but nope. If i didn’t know any better, I might think that Sharpton’s intentional mission in life is to conjure racism out of thin air.
But I’ll hold my judgement about this confederate flag deal until all the facts come in. See?!?! See, Al ?!?!? That’s how it’s done – not the other way around!

The only racist i see here is al sharpton. He keeps his job by keeping racism alive. Pointing fingers at something he doesnt even know is the truth and demanding an apology for a baltant attemt to stir racism between blacks and whites in america. I am white and have suffered multiple racist remarks. HOW? Cracker is a racist term but im called cracker when a african american doesnt like me. I have many black friends and none of them never bring race into any conversation we have. I hate racist whites and blacks. To the confederate flag issue, its every persons right to beleive what they want. Its called the first ammendment. If we didnt have this then the cival rights movement would have been much harder to accomplish.

This is just another full fledged crock of “The Other Way Prejudice” perpetrated by the UnRevNotSoSharpTON.
Frankly, I have lived through all of these Afro-Huckster’s years of hustle and it’s time WE THE PEOPLE, of ALL colors, unite in several ways to reject these phony claims of alleged racism, just because someone has a HISTORICAL flag up in their building.
That means NOTHING. A load of history is attached to those years. Not everyone that is associated with that flag is a racist. VERY FEW ARE. But anything these frauds can come up with to hustle some money for their filthy hands they will do. And, we also MUST stop them in their tracks. That flag does NOT mean racism. That flag represented a mass of people who were wrong but NOT racists. They lost a war. They blended back in. But racism has nothing to do with you and me but EVERYTHING to do with the Jacksons and the NotSoSharpTONS, the immoral hustlers in the world. Now THERE you have something to take down. I will do everything in my power to take down – legally and morally – these self-serving frauds. Will you?
I’m ordering a Confederate flag tomorrow (or maybe tonight) to do my part of IN YOUR FRAUDULENT FACE, all you bums.
Will you join me?
Chef Mike,
Tampa

First of all – who told Rev. Al he was even relevant? Second of all – just because you don’t care to remember the past does not mean it did not happen. Thirdly – the Civil War was NOT about slavery. Fourth – that IS NOT the Confederate Flag.
The Civil War was about state sovereignty and the flag that everyone commonly refers to as the Confederate Flag is in fact Jeb Stuart’s battle flag. If you are going to compalin about history, maybe you should learn it first.

Rev Al is like Cheney and Bush a divider. He still has yet to apologize to the man he accused of rape..NEVER APOLOGIZED for ruining his life…he is just looking for things to divide and NEVER does he talk about the good things that unite us. He should drop the act..He is the problem not the solution. We have had our fill of intolerant jackasses and we are sick of it. As a black man, African American or person of color?(whatever is the new norm) –He does not represent me or my friends. He is just a big mouthed fake preacher.

I, too, called the gun club. At one number, I got a guy who said he didn’t know what everyone was talking about, and hung up. He sounded like he was sick and tired of phone calls about it. At another number, I got a more helpful fellow who had been there a number of years, and told me he had never seen a Confederate flag there. He didn’t sound defensive–he sounded believable. So there you have it. I must confess, the only reason I called was the Al Sharpton connection. I’m afraid that when he says something now, I’m dubious, and want to find out for myself. There IS alot of racism left in the country, and we should work to end it–but, uh, Al is getting to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

So what? If a Condederate Flag fies, it IS part of our heritage. Many Americans have ancestors that foulght in the Civil War and we hold those people just as dear to the American spirit as anyone else. Sharpton is a race baiter and everyone knows it. ps – The Civil War is over. Will someone tell Sharpton!!!

Maybe there should be a “race” war within the Black community and they get rid of all there racist, fake preachers like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They are definitely the problem and not working toward the solution!

I thought sharpton was still serving as the personal agent for Tawana. I mean he gets at least a new suit every week for being the superlative race baiter. ‘Have carpet bag will travel’ is printed on his personal stationary.

You know what I don’t understand? What does Al say about the “Miss Black America” contest, and the “Negro College Fund” and also”Black Radio”??? Could you imagine what we would have to listen to if all these things said “WHITE”?????

I wish the likes of this disgusting race hustler dry up and blow away. If there are no problems, he has to invent problems and there is never any accountability. I have never seen a society as fractured as ours right now where sham preachers such as Al and Jesse are never called liars and cheats.

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” —– Abraham Lincoln

I’ve seen film footage of Cheney going there and didn’t see a Union Jack flag. It seems Sharpton was misinformed.

Well…. If irreverand Al said it… then it must be tr…. Yeah right…. POLITICALLY MOTIVATED !!!

Whoop doo. Don’t like Cheney at all. Don’t even like the flag. Really don’t like Sharpton more though and I think he hurts far more than he helps in the area of race relations.

Oh my goodess! this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. sure it’s a flag from the civil war but gezz! They are all still worked up by that “white tree” stuff, so they just want to blow off steam and cause more problems. PLEASE! get a real job and do us all a favor… PLEASE! Come on Licoln did say before he was killed , ” to forgive and forget” ” treat all man equealy no matter what side their where on” It’s a flag of the past… just like Texas flys the flags it has been under.. just shows the past.. not like there are KKK at the club trying to lure the Vp in or something.

Here we go again!!!!Blah,blah,blah, the same old story out of the same old mouth. Get over it Al!!!!!!!!!

Al Sharpton should be grateful that he wasn’t invited to go hunting with the VP.

I am originally from Mexico, and now live in north carolina, i have seen black people with the rebel flag and the usa flag on the other side because they had ancestors who fought for their freedom, if al sharpton wants to help out he needs to go to the ghettos of america and help out his people who are in need of help starting with the dirty south and find out what his people really think of him and his other buddy, the usa likes to keep its racism in its text books little kids don’t now about the n word until middle school why keep this nastiness in the world little kids will use this against other kids to fight, ive been called spic, wet back and other stuff because little kids are learning things they need to, how come they don’t mention the latin follower who walked with martin luther king, can’t wait for al sharpton and his buddies to pass away so martin luther can slap both of them like in one of the marches, america is being really screwed because of the politcs, never experience such racism towards me because of my english and color of brown by both african american and whites, but do not blame the african and white americans just the ignorant people who feed of people like al sharpton and all the politics in suits. the latin coalition does not even help the latin community.

Why does everyone act as if their comments are going to change something?

Tony, you and Al Sharpton deserve each other. You are both so racist that you are malodorous! Why is it wrong to display the Confederate flag, but still okay to fly an African flag??? Why can you shout “Black power!”, have Miss Black America, have a United Negro College Fund, have BET television, but they are not allowed the same with the name in an all ‘WHITE’ category? You, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson are not struggling for equality. You want to be the ‘MOST EQUAL’!

Al and Jessie, I refuse to call either one of you Rev..that is a scam.
Race issues is all you know, Both of you cause the problems. Why not just come out and say you hate any race but your own.
Civil War is the longest in history, because you two will not let it go.
Get over it, get Jobs, quit scamming funding.

I just looked at the photo of the flag and the associated text and wonder if the picture is as accurate as the text. It is hanging on what certainly appears to be a standard door,which means it would be about 30″ wide, yet it is described as being 3′by 5′ in size. No matter how you measure, if that is a standard door there is no way the flag is that big.
Since they got that important detail wrong I have to wonder what else they got wrong. The actual location of the building where the flag was seen, maybe? One bad “fact” in a story such as this casts a great deal of doubt on the entire thing.

Wow. Who cares? We should. Step back and read what you all have written. Are you not embarrassed? You should be. So “they” should get over it? And who are you? The last lynching of a black man in the USA was in 1980. Not that long ago. Al Sharpton may be a politician, but would you be so vitriolic in your criticism if he weren’t black? Do you really believe discrimination isn’t alive (and represented by the confederate flag) today? are you that niave’?

Well there is no need for blacks and whites to try to convince one another on ongoing racists acts or systems. There is plenty of evidence for and against the argument. Plenty. What is more immediately urgent is for blacks to learn to better position themselves within the U.S. political economy. Afterwards, all other issues will take care of themselves. When blacks freely dump hundreds of billions into the domestic economy while owning less than 7% of non-agriculture businesses, they are asking for trouble. And trouble is just what they have found. That kind of fiscal incompetence is far worse than the damage racism could ever cause. To be an annual 800 billion dollar collective consumer with little to show for in the form of production, significant employment, and thus educational, social and political power, why bother worrying about how other groups behave or think? The central issue is black fiscal and social conduct that leaves them vulnerable to many forms of unpleasant experience. Black problems can be sorted out by blacks themselves if they insist on not following leadership, including from that of MLK to Obama who avoid the central issues of wealth-creation that leads to political significance and prosperity. The name of the game in America is not a moral-based notion of holding hands in a promised land. That is simply not the case. It can happen, but that should not be the primary guiding principle if all groups are not truly committed. The name of the American Dream game is MONEY. Those that have it are respected while those that don’t will perish at a faster rate. Money allows one to realize the promise of freedom and so the central focus should be on how to control the black portion of the contribution to the political economy just as other groups maintain their control on their contributions. This is reasonable and it is a serious notion of self-help. Who the hell cares what Dick is doing or where he hunts? Who cares what stupid deeds a racist might be up to? Neither has a real bearing on the quality of my life if I don’t want him to, and that is a fact. The black man should first and foremost mind his personal social and fiscal conduct. Only from a position of real strength will a truly great experience emerge. Just give it a try.

Given the record of Cheney’s hunting activities, it may be the CLUB that should wish to distance itself from Cheney – not the other way around!

Fire Cheney for being stupid. If he didn’t know the flag was there, he should have!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Schools I’ve visit in many countries see Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson as reasons that racism exists and America. When will America wake up and banish these two individuals that justify their existence by fanning the embers of racism into raging ‘spin’fernos?

Ok, I saw the photo. But now I cannot find the story where the poster said it was. It was there and went back to check some fatcs about it and now it is gone. I have a feeling there is a reason for that and Rev. Sharpton was baited hook line and sinker. However, it is easy to catch a fish when they swim in a fish bowl.

al and jesse continue to fool a great number of white people (and a few blacks) as evidenced by some of the comments here. blacks — or any group — maintaining a victim status (long after it’s called for) give themselves great leverage on any issue in the public eye. don’t think they’re not smart enough to know that. whites need to get past their own stupidity and so-called white guilt and see these scam artists for that they are and start calling them on it. john stoussel, sean hannity, neal boortz, thomas sowell and a few others in the media have done so. the rest of you remain cowards, even jake tapper here, tiptoeing around the real issue. the media is the main culprit here, especially the three majors and npr/pbs. once they start doing their job and either ignoring or confronting these media whores/race baiters then we may be able to work on some meaningful problems together, including real issues and causes of racism. these people, like al and jesse, not to mention lesser weights such as joseph lowery and cynthia mckinney, are divisive. they do not bring us together. and many many good black people know this and see the damage their “leaders” are causing. even obama, who seemed to be on a higher level than these scamsters, has shown he has flaws with some of his recent comments. start ignoring these self-promoting con men – they’ve all been caught with their pants down, figuratively, and in some cases literally, but the media continues to give them a free ride.

Al, get a real job and do something with the hair.

Axe me if i cares…

Many people died for that flag. It has NOTHING to do with color. Al Sharpton is the biggest racist on the planet and a glory seeker. Give it up loser and get a real job.

Hey Jeff
The “Confederate Flag” is an American flag and millions of Americans revere it. Of course, millions of Americans don’t care much for it either….Now tell me, where is it written that the first group which holds it dear, must surrender its rights to those who don’t? I’m waiting for some talking head like yourself to offer a logical explanation as to why this is so? So far, none of you pious pontificators have come through with that explanation. In fact, all I get from y’all is SILENCE! Are you going to join your fellow journalists and hide under your desk? I await your insights – but I won’t hold my breath.
And as far as “further investigation” goes, here’s some food for your “further investigation”
“Apologize”? Is he kidding? Steven Pagones, the family of Yankel Rosenblum, the Central Park Jogger, and many more – they’re all waiting for apologies for from sleazy Al and his team…. None seem forthcoming however. Why don’t you and your fellow talking heads in the media put the pressure on him to apologize, I wonder?
Oh yeah, one more thing for you to investigate – since he claims to be a “Reverend, maybe you can do some research and find out where he got his degree in theology? Or does he have one at all?
And where oh where is his CONGREGATION? Maybe someone should put a group
picture of a bunch of people on the side of a milk carton with the caption underneath
MISSING! HAVE YOU SEEN AL SHARPTON’S CONGREGATION???
You want to investigate? I’d say you have a lot of work in front of you

This has gotten way out of hand. It’s almost 2008 and we’re still focusing on a flag that is, although very contraversial, the Mississippi state flag. To attack the vice president for being in the the same vicinity as the flag is unneccesary and a pathetic attempt to obtain publicity. No black man or woman I am friends with is or ever has been a slave. Furthermore, none of them feel they need any apology or any kind of compensation for their ancestors terrible treatment and racial discrimination in the past. The truth is that racism is very alive today, but, as a resident of the state of Mississippi, I find nothing wrong with the state flag. I do not flaunt it, as I realize some overly sensitive people may be offended, but I don’t find any error in being around one. You won’t solve the crime of racism by picking apart every aspect of a man who is obviously not a racist man.

The confederate flag isn’t only about racism, but also treason. Anyone connected to this flag should be charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government and more.

I fly the Flag on a daily basis as I am proud of my Southern Heritage. I will not be pressured by scum like Sharpton to remove it. My family has been in the country since 1608 and fought many battles to make this country what it used to be, not what it has become today. If he and his people are unhappy here then I suggest he leave. He is not nor will he ever be welcome in or near my property.
GOD SAVE THE SOUTH

Al Sharpton needs to just shut up..I’m a proud Texan and Southerner. My family has lived in the South ever since they landed in Virginia so many years ago. I proudly display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my heritage and ancestors who fought for Dixie. They weren’t fighting for slavery. They were fighting for the same principals as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patric Henry etc. They fought for States Rights, less taxs, and less government. That is something we have way too much of, and it is true that the real America died at Appamattix. The Confederate flag represents them and everything that used to be right in our land. It is true that hate groups have miss-used our flag for their purposes, but they have and do also use the U.S. flag which in my opinion has more to do with racism if you want to start throwing mud. It flew over all slave ships and legalized slavery, it flew over the illegal invasion of the South. It flew over all the cruelty that was thrust upon all Southerners black and white. Over all the plundering, burning, killing, and raping of Southern people, and it flew over all the oppresion of the American indians, so in all reality ole Al should be hateing on the U.S. flag and leave ours alone. He’s the biggest racist in this country.

Does one draw a parellel..??..//..Al Sharpton truly has a queer nose for news..considering he espouses the Lord as his Savior I truly find the man lacking in both Hindsight and 20/20 vision as a regualr demaeanor..instead he has chosen the absurd white-race as his Calling Card for right&wrong..I have found many things to ignore just being a single person and attempting to make my way home..Al Sharpton never seems to fall into my scope of right&wrong..so I get the reasoning in my head that Drugs and Prostitution are NOT on the Al Sharpton…urge to purge–revolution..and his sense of PURPLE really make me laugh anyway.

Where the hell was Sharpton when Hillary took campaign contributions from a man that claimed black people are inferior to whites?
Where was he when Roger Clinton was caught on tape saying the “N Word” over and over again? (search Roger Clinton tapes)
All this proves is that Sharpton really doesn’t care about racism. All he cares about it politics. He can point fingers at Republicans but when a Democrat steps up to the racist plate, he is nowhere to be found. He is a hypocrite and just causes more problems for black people by stirring up more racism. He doesn’t want racism to die because then he would be a nothing and have to get a normal job like everyone else, black or white!

My 14 year old son came home from school today quite upset. His teacher pretty much called him a racist because he wears a hat with the confederate flag on it. When he explained to her that is hat has nothing to do with racism, she started comparing the confederate flag to the nazi flag. What is the deal with our teachers today? My son is proud to wear the flag just as he is with the american flag. People need to sit down and read their history and quit being a biggot.