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http://viconsortium.com/featured/yacht-haven-grande-removes-crew-and-vessel-carrying-confederate-flag-from-marina/
 
Not really. I am sure you have run into a$$holes in upscale marinas before. Probably another bunch of noisy rednecks with cash. Note the rubber duck by the dink? Tells me something. The flag may have been "the capper".
 
So the marina claims to be multi cultural but can not tolerate a historic flag?

Ironic...

What s wrong with the rubber duck?
 
The article only references the flying of the Confederate Flag. It does not reference any other behavior. Tolerance and political correctness at its worst.
 
You have to watch out for those "rubber duck sympathizers". Next thing you know they will be bringing in the rubber inflatable Llama! Nobody wants to wake up to an inflatable llama floating around their marina!
 
Let me start by saying that slavery is the most shameful part of this country's history. With that being said:
The indignation over the confederate flag these last several years is ridiculous. Nearly as absurd as the belief that the primary catalyst for the Civil War was centered around the human rights aspect of slavery.
As a born and bred northerner from NY I think it's shameful that after about 150 years the stars and bars is suddenly so offensive to so many.
I'm personally a fan of former Governer Nikki Haley but I think she caved to political correctness on this one at the expense of the generations of Americans for whom that flag holds a different meaning.
 
Is Mitch "Half Moon" Landrieu a member of management at that marina? Probably just some Ole Miss Alumni showing their support for Hugh Freeze. Are the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd banned in the USVI also?
 
Most people have no clue of the history of that flag let alone most events in history, civil war included. Idiots are offended by it because they are told to.
 
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Originally posted by JVM225

Let me start by saying that slavery is the most shameful part of this country's history. With that being said:
The indignation over the confederate flag these last several years is ridiculous. Nearly as absurd as the belief that the primary catalyst for the Civil War was centered around the human rights aspect of slavery.
As a born and bred northerner from NY I think it's shameful that after about 150 years the stars and bars is suddenly so offensive to so many.
I'm personally a fan of former Governer Nikki Haley but I think she caved to political correctness on this one at the expense of the
generations of Americans for whom that flag holds a different meaning.

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Well said...thank you
 
Fellows my Mississippi roots run deep, starting in the mid 1830's with the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. My Great Grandfather, born in East Central Mississippi, lost the lower half of his right arm at Chickamauga Creek in September of 1863, fighting for the State of Mississippi, so I have the history.

I am here to tell you that the American Civil War was about the institution of slavery. Read this "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union", which can be found here.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp
 
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Originally posted by L. Keith

Fellows my Mississippi roots run deep, starting in the mid 1830's with the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. My Great Grandfather, born in East Central Mississippi, lost the lower half of his right arm at Chickamauga Creek in September of 1863, fighting for the State of Mississippi, so I have the history.

I am here to tell you that the American Civil War was about the institution of slavery. Read this "A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union", which can be found here.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp

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And since most/many of folks in VI are descended from slaves and they now run the government there, it should not surprise anyone that they might not look to kindly on people flying that flag.

That said, the part I found interesting was were the boat was asked to leave the marina because of the flag.

Now I don't know what interactions may have gone on between the boaters and the marina management but I would have thought just telling them to put the flag away and keep in away would have been the marinas first course of action.
 
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