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Brody Jenner continues to be gross about his sisters. [Starcasm]
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ugh, he’s such a loser. he’s not even from the South, he’s from Detroit!
I know. I was just thinking, “isn’t he from Detroit?” He needs to quit this faux, good ole country boy, the South shall rise again bs because it won’t change the fact that he’s from the Midwest, which was not a part of Old Dixie.
Didn’t see your comment, thought the same.
And this guy owes his career to the Rap music scene in Michigan and the African American artists/producers who gave him a chance when he used to rap.
This born-again southern gothic crap is so lame. He’s a weasel.
I have family in the deep south who feel that it’s ok to post pro confederate flag sayings. In return I have posted the equal amount of anti confederate flag visuals. I am extremely upset when I see these comments about how it’s about their history. It’s a disgusting history and a shameful one.
I swear to God I’m not going to budge on this! This will cause some friction between us, but wrong is wrong and will not tolerate bigotry of any kind.
Thanks for what you’re doing, aims. It’s going to make a difference to the younger people in your family.
No flag-wavers in my family, thankfully, but if there were I’d probably ask them each to list 5 specific things about the Confederacy that make them proud. And their involvement in those 5 specific things.
Keep fighting the good fight, aims.
I have a couple of friends who were born and bred in the Midwest and have been posting pro-Confederate flag crap. My mother is actually from the South, and she has never supported the Confederate flag and neither have I. Some people are just clueless.
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1907063!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/70303935.jpg
Robert Richie Jr. A black kid, who some of those rebel flag wavers would love to do harm. Looks like Scottie Pippen.
The Confederate Flag wasn’t flown for almost 100 years after the civil war in the South. It was resurrected after Brown v. Board of Education as a reaction to desegregation!
The lawmakers who were in favor of discriminating against citizens based on their race brought the flag back. It was their reaction to the civil-rights movement and school desegregation.
Aims — that sounds awesome of you. Stay strong!
first he was a rapper…then he was a country singer…
next?…isn’t there an opening in One Direction?
this “man” is so tiring…
Just an ignorant tool
1) He’s not even from Detroit, he’s from a town farther North, called Romeo, MI. None of these chicknshit wingnut yahoos are from Detroit. The motor city madman, Ted Nugent, is not from the Motor City, he’s a draft dodging pants pooper from Redford, MI. Back in the 50s when he as a coming up, it was racist as hell.
2) He started doing countrified songs when he realized he was a craap wannabe Eminem who wasn’t getting anywhere, so he came up with new schtick.
3)He has a half black son which makes this even more repulsive.
You had me at ‘draft dodging pants pooper’. 🙂
This isn’t hyperbole. He actually sh*t in his pants to avoid the draft.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/nugent.asp
Maybe he’s from South Detroit and just got confused! He reminds me of a budget Ted Nugent (who is another one that needs to just zip his lips and sit down in a corner somewhere).
Edit: Cleo, I posted this before I saw your comment. So he’s not even from a town south of Detroit, it looks like I can’t give him that benefit of the doubt, lol! And we both mentioned Ted Nugent. 🙂
Isn’t Ted Nugent a budget Ted Nugent?
EXACTLY!!!! but more importantly, Kid Rock is still alive? Who knew?
doofus, your comments are cracking me up!
The more upset and pissy these ignorant Rednecks get about this flag issue, the more I laugh my pants off. Especially when they blame Obama, because, you know, everything is Obama’s fault.
😁
thanks Lady, I enjoy yours too…
re: the “Thanks Obama!” crap, did you hear that Boehner is blaming Obama for the water restrictions (and the drought) in CA? you can’t make this stuff up…
Good Lord, noooooo. Next they’ll be blaming Obama for the Civil War, Roe vs. Wade, and Santa Anna’s attack on the Alamo.
Hick.
Kitten that would be want to be hick. Kid was born in a small town in Detroit but fancied rap music and break dancing. His albums were pretty much considered rock mixed with a whole lot of rap. Later he transformed his music to country rock.
I guess he really wants to be a Cowboy now. Though the song was more about being a rebel and a concrete Cowboy.
I used to be a huge fan of Kid after meeting and spending time with him at Howard Stern’s first birthday bash back in early 2000. He didn’t seem to be the asshat he has become today.
Damn, you went to Stern’s birthday bash? Much jealous!
The mother of his son is african american, and he won full custody when she took him to court for neglect. I really don’t know the full story, but am really curious why he won custody, plus, he brags that -she- has to pay for medical bills for their son. I can’t seem to find the full story anywhere online. He seems hateful of her…hmm…
@beautifulDay:
This is the only thing I could (quickly) find:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=114828
Because Michigan was part of the old south?
Ugh, edited my comment and it was sent into spam!
Anyways, not to defend him (vom) but there was a significant migration (“Hillbilly Highway”) of Southern whites from the South to the North post-World War II, including Detroit for auto industry opportunities. There is deep-rooted Southern mentality in places outside the south as a result – sort of akin to how in Southern Florida, there are significant pockets of New Yorkerism/Northeast liberal mentalities in the population
This isn’t to be confused with the Great Migration of African Americans that began in the early 20th century, although they too were drawn to industrial centers for greater opportunities that didn’t exist for them below the Mason Dixon line.
I’m not daring to edit to fix some typos because I don’t want to be sent to spam again!
Thanks for the info. I was being snarky, but appreciate it the same. As Mia Girl said above, he fancied himself black before he was a southerner. So an all around poseur of the highest order.
Kid Rock is from a white suburb of Detroit- he was born and raise middle class, and had nothing southern about him, I know I went to a rival school while he was still there. And furthermore, he only co-op’ed the southern thing when that beame his fan base.
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@LA Juice: Please re-read my comment. I never said Kid Rock was not born and raised in Detroit. Understanding social and demographic historical movements can go a long way.
Yes @Kiddo. We moved to Ann Arbor, MI from Long Island, NY (another part of the Old South) when I was a child. Lol.
I believe this idiot can possibly make a claim to being from a small town south of Ann Arbor. Perhaps that’s what he meant.
Ha!
Get over it, you racist loser.
But but but he CAN’T be racist because he has a bi-racial child, don’t ya know? Because slave owners never “mingled” with the slaves, right? I can’t stand that he has followers who actually co-sign the garbage he spews.
I really feel like Brody really hates the Kardashians. What he said about his little sisters is not ok, but I notice he used that as an opportunity to take a dig at Khloe, Kourtney, and Kim.
I’m not clicking the link.
Yeah it was just…all sorts of inappropriate. I really wonder how close he is to anyone in that family besides his bother and mom. Even his relationship with Kylie and Kendall seems so…untraditional.
I’m not giving him a pass but knowing the dysfunctional dynamic in that family, his comments don’t really surprise me.
What comments?
Yeah, I think so too. I know the Kardashians’ reality shows are anything but realistic, but the clips I’ve seen of him interacting with Bruce/Caitlyn, he seems like he’s still such a little boy who wants his dad and blames the Kardashians for keeping Bruce/Caitlyn from him. Even though Brody is a gross douche, I feel really bad for him because of that. And lord help me I’d hit it so hard!
So much word to your last two sentences.
I hate myself but he is so stupidly hot.
Idea. Let’d send Fifty Cent and Kid Rock to a desert island together. For good measure, I’m willing to include Sarah Palin, all of the Kardashians, and (after today) Jesse Eisenberg to give them a quasi-sort of community.
Oh, and since Fifty won’t need any money on this deserted island, he can just leave his money here and let people get their payments as they are entitled to by law.
As for Kid Rock: Dude, keep waving that Confederate flag high. Makes it easy for me to see your racist idiocy and avoid you accordingly.
Please throw in Dick Cheney to oversee the enhanced interrogations.
I think he meant to say KICK his A**. That I would agree with.
I just read on another site that Nick Cave’s son was killed from falling off a cliff. Super sad for his family.
And Kid Rock is an idiot.
Really sad. Only 15 🙁
OOO no! About Nick Cave’s kid. Tragic.
Whoa. What awful news.
He needs to have his ass tarred and feathered and paraded through the streets of Detroit so that the many thousands of people he’s offended (African Americans, women, animal lovers, etc. etc.) can give him some well-deserved comeuppance.
Why do you need to give this guy any attention. It is not worth anyone’s time.
I feel so sorry for Kid’s son, who is half black btw. He must have such a complex considering all the hateful stuff his Dad spews.
Wow. Thats just pathetic.
And he was raised by his dad! I wonder what that home life must have been like.
I’d rather just punch him in the face. Would that be a reasonable substitution?
Yes. In this case, yes it would. (damn, I’m in a NO BULLSHIT mood today..lol!)
Kid Rock needs to wash his hair before I even listen to hid outrageous views. Yes, I’m shallow like that
He is the dirtiest looking person. Yuck.
I’d rather kiss a slug.
If people want to fly the Confederate flag I say let them. Not because of First Amendment rights, but because so rarely do assholes and bigots wave a literal flag letting us know their true dispositions. This way, they are more easily avoided.
Good point.
I agree with you. I live in Connecticut and very rarely see a confederate flag. I recently drove down a street I drive down often and see that someone has the confederate flag painted on the hood of their car. All I could think was…. thanks for letting us all know what you think.
I just read a headline saying the name “Atticus” has dropped in popularity due to Go Set a Watchman. Didn’t some celebrity just name their baby Atticus. Interesting to me – would you be tempted to change the name? Glad I never had the chance to use “Eddard” since he was bumped off by the end of the first GoT book.
Elle’s body is ridiculous. Whoa.
First he was a faux rapper and now he’s a faux southern boy. Have a seat, phoney.
++Yeah? Well…I’d tell Kid cRock to kiss *my* ass, but I don’t want that nasty, filthy, racist, gross, greasy, creeper’s mouth or even a single shedding of his skin cells anywhere NEAR me.
Stupid, clueless, uneducated asscrack!
++This is me holding back on this douche canoe.
I still believe, like a lot of people, that Putin is gay and hiding it behind policy and massive macho shirtless bear riding antics. Eventually, maybe it’ll come out in a big way – one could only hope.
This is a fight filled with ignorance about appropriated symbolism and not knowing the truth about Americas history, not just southern history. By removing the flag and destroying monuments that involve the symbols on it, it disrespects the truth about what these things originally stood for and still stand for to many people today. Due to public pressure a hasty decision was made spurred by a photo of a person who committed horrific crimes on humanity, not just crimes on a specific race. This should have been an opportunity for reeducating the public not the knee jerk, ignorant reaction it has turned out to be. The american flag that hangs everywhere has an equally horrific history in regards to the blood that has been shed in its name. But I’m still a proud Southern American, the civil war was a war fought in the interest of maintaining states rights not slavery and oppression alone. In all of the centuries this flag has been flown, this flag has never been as controversial as it is today which would lead one to believe that it isn’t the true meaning or feelings of southern pride the public is concerned with but attempting to attach their own misunderstanding of the symbolism in the name of political correctness. I know my opinion will not be a popular opinion though it is an extremely well researched and educated opinion. I’m not a fan of white washed truths or simply having an opinion because it has been fed to us by the local and national news. I even went back to my history professor for clarification to make sure I understood details well enough to even have this opinion. I would hope everyone with strong opinions on this issue would take the time to reeducate themselves on the history and symbolism this flag holds.
The confederate flag represents treason. You are free to fly it or tattoo it on your face if you choose but no government institution should fly such a flag.
To @doublesteff
I can say an Oreo cookie is symbolic of racial harmony, that doesn’t make it true, nor does it mean we should build great monuments to Oreo cookies.
In other words, you can feel warm and mushy and proud over all sorts of inappropriate symbols, you can even make up your version of reality to justify why it’s so important to you.
But what you can’t do, is convince well-read, educated, and informed people of something that isn’t true.
The flag that you CLAIM is treasonous, those who flew it wanted to secede from the union, and in fact did not want A UNITED states of America. We would not be, or exist if they had their way.
As to who flew the flag you claim and and extol? That’s no Southern Confederate flag, it is the flag that certain West Virginia troops during the confederacy fought under, it never represented, Alabama, MS, KY, NC, south Carolina, Texas, or any other southern states.
Robert E Lee banishedbanished various representations of a confederate flag post civil war and told his family and friends to furl it, and never show it in his presence again.
Lastly, the version you claim is the kid rock, lynrd skynrd, George Wallace version of the west Virginia troop flag that came back into Vogue at the HEIGHT of the civil rights movement, when grown politicians spat on little black children and tried to stop them from entering school buildings, waving THAT bastardization of an old regional WV confed flag IN THEIR tiny scared faces.
THAT is what it represents to the descendants of slaves who lived under its fear and repression in the 50s until today. THAT is what it STILL is. George Wallace and the Klan picked THAT flag to terrorize fellow Americans, yet THAT is what you claim as heritage?? You don’t deserve the blood any veterans shed for you, and if you have any military in your family, they are dumb as stumps for fighting for the US even as they worship that which killed millions and tore this country apart, instilling fear and causing more death to this day.
Wow, beautifully put, I wish could erase my comment in honor of it.
@ Cleo
I wanted to reply just to ::slowclap::
Thank you, Cleo. What I’ve never understood are these people who want that flag to fly over public, taxpayer funded sites. They whine and bellyache about heritage and trot out their revisionist history and seem to have not a clue that many of their fellow taxpaying citizens are African-Americans for whom the flag’s heritage is slavery, rape, torture and death.
If the flag is so important to them, paint their houses top to bottom in the colors, plaster stickers all over their cars, tattoo their bodies. Just keep it out of government sponsored sites paid for by all of us.
BTW – white, Southern female, fortunate to have been raised by parents who never derogated anybody for race, religion, ethnicity or any type of “otherness”.
thanks Cleo…some people just don’t know and don’t want to know.
Nice. You laid it down.
People: don’t dilute this with claims about ‘humanity’, this was about killing black people, that’s it.
The rights of the States, that’s such a laugh, seeing as how these States didn’t have the individual right to abolish slavery if they so chose. No, if your state expressed its ‘right’, to make an individual choice like the flag-wavers like to crow about, it got kicked out the country. So, who’s being aggressive and tyrannical, then? That argument holds up like china in an earthquake.
“the civil war was a war fought in the interest of maintaining states rights not slavery and oppression alone.”
States’ rights aren’t rights if some of the people within those states are chained to work without dignity or pay and treated as PROPERTY. A lot of the state’s rights cause WAS to maintain slavery, in individual states, unencumbered by federal ruling and law.
And yes, the flag controversy gained more traction after the homicidal racist actions of one individual, but the flag has always represented the south during war and in pre-abolishionist times.
Why not just hang the US flag? Does it not represent all the states?
Why not a state flag, if it’s all about a state’s rights?
Kiddo it was to allow the ability of each state to make their own decision about slavery and MANY other things. It wasn’t just about suppression of rights of slaves. The Union army/members hired many ex slaves… Then paid them 1/10 of what their white counterparts were paid to fight in the war. The entire country was oppressive not just the south. The slaves in question were initially sold into slavery by their own people. Again, It wasn’t just a ‘ Southern’ thing. Or a Confederate thing. I grew up with both flags flying around my neighborhood all of my life and I can honestly say that the Southern Pride that I felt and that it stood for in our neck of the woods had zero to do with segregation and oppression and more to do with family values (closeness/togetherness/etc.) and fried green tomatoes than in ever had to do with slavery. As I posted to the commenter that dismissed my views as moronic, symbolism has always been open to interpretation and appropriation. Take the Swastika for example. It was used at least 5000 years prior to Nazi Germany. It is a sacred religious symbol the world over. But many today only know it for the one interpretation. Its the same thing with the rebel flag. The meaning is more than what it may have started out as.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/15/lies_i_learned_as_a_southerner_racism_the_confederate_flag_and_why_so_many_white_southerners_revere_a_symbol_of_hatred/
@doublesteff: you are correct about symbols being open to interpretation and change, as they often do get appropriated by a group and used for their own purposes. The aspect that you are missing is that at some point, the flag was used as an oppressive symbol, people were burned, raped, hung, spit on, cursed, tortured, terrorized and maimed under that flag. Recently. It is an emotionally charged symbol that comes continues to torment and haunt a segment of the population that must live alongside dipsh*ts who choose to display it prominently, and these dipsh*ts know that it is offensive to many people, and still choose to display it.
The problem with the Lee battle flag (it was never the confederate flag) is that those who continue to display it and tout is as a symbol for American freedom completely lack empathy and the ability to accept that they are continuing to actively repress a fairly significant portion of their fellow counrtymen.
“the civil war was a war fought in the interest of maintaining states rights…”
Yes, the states wanted to give their citizens the right to own other people as property.
This flag was not flown in the south for nearly 100 years after the civil war, until the segregationists resurrected it after Brown v. Board of Education. Even if a person buys the assertion that the civil war wasn’t just about slavery, the confederate flag has been the symbol of racism, segregation, and inequality for many decades now.
/ignore
Also I am well aware of the flag design, the opinion of the designer regarding the supposed ‘supremecy of the white man’ and how he incorporated this attitude into the design but this was his own opinion and not the greater symbolism the flag for which the flag has come to stand.
😒😪. WHY would you even WANT that flag to represent your ideals at all? Do you not understand the history, discomfort, and the general all-around horribleness behind it?Was the civil war fought over states rights? Yes, but that was because the South used the Constitution and the pretense of “states rights” to resist changes and to continue their exploitive way of life aka as SLAVERY.
I don’t see a good chunk of the German population bending over backwards to justify and come up with lies to protect the swatstika. They realized its a terrible symbol and promptly retired it. Why can’t you and all the other moronic sympathizers do the same?
Funny you should mention German population. Im half German and am just as proud of my German heritage and history as I am my Southern and American history and ancestry. Hitler was NOT German. It is a well known fact. There is no need for lies to protect the swastika or hooked cross as it was being used at least 5,000 years prior to the use by Nazi Germany/Adolf Hitler using it and giving it a brand new meaning. Hitler appropriated many symbols for use during his murderous reign of terror. The swastika is still a cherished symbol in a number of religions (Hinduism and Buddhism to name two) meaning ‘well being’ or ‘all is well’.
Am I proud of my German heritage? Damn right. The American flag is a symbol of pride for millions yet the historical oppression and bloodshed that continues to this day in the name of the things it symbolizes has yet to taint the pride that is felt. But that is the thing with symbolism. It is open to interpretation and means different things to different people. It seems close minded and a bit unsympathetic to paint things with such a narrow eyed brush. But thankfully for me, I live in a country that allows me the freedom of that opinion. And I live with pride about the things that the Confederate flag symbolizes: southern pride. Not pride in oppression. The same thing the American flag symbolizes for me.
If this point of view, which is open, honest, and welcomes challenges to any and all of the opinions I have in order to further a conversation and remain up to date and educated is something that you consider moronic, then that’s what I am. I challenge you to educate yourself on ALL of the facts and go forward with an better understanding of the entire history. Speak with some southerners. Realize that it is all in the eye of the beholder.
Doublesteff,
A well known hate smbol may have a varied history, but that fact doesn’t negate its overriding dominant history of hate, when man’s inhumanity to man, co-opts it.
Yes, it is a spiritual symbol (with some modifications) in various religions the world over, but that doesn’t change the fact that throughout the Western world, Europe and the Americas, that symbol is in a most of countries is banned and discouraged in public and private spaces, and is outright illegal in others. (Look it up)
Let’s be truthful.
The confederate flag, represents an American and Southern holocaust and genocide for many.
Its irrelevant to those who saw themselves as conquerers of an entire people, and so disregarded and dismissed their humanity for several hundred years, killing, raping and enslaving.
Doublesteff,
Southern Pride of what? Anyone who actually proscribes the reasoning you did behind the Nazi flag, means you want to remain unreasonable because despite what the spiritual and cultural meaning was throughout certain ethic groups, once the Nazi’s co-opted it that symbol became a meaning of hate. Just b/c Hitler wanted to use that uplifting symbol of his flag does not disregard the fact he transformed the meaning once he used it to support his hatred. That is the thorough line of the Confederate flag. I have issues with the American flag as well, but the argument used to support the Confederate flag does not make any reasonable since. It was co-opted by radical white supremacist groups to terrorize a group of people. Therefore, it became a united symbol of hate that ran congruent to symbol of the desire for the “Old South”– you know the one with slaves. Also, I hope we all know at this point, that yes the North was not perfect, and that Lincoln occupied his own brand of racism, and that the North mainly wanted to cut-off the South’s economic power (there was an unequal distribution of wealth due to SLAVES). But you appear to rather cling to these ideas instead of respecting and understanding why a group of people would see only hate in that flag and that’s why a state building, or institution, should not support it.
I’m confused. You speak about your pride in your German heritage, but then have to defer to a whole other hemisphere’s relationship to the symbol to justify the use of it, now. I don’t think anyone is convinced by the ‘Hitler wasn’t German’ canard, no new information is being exposed there and we’re not talking about a man who suddenly undergoes a philosophy change because of where he was born. Hitler wasn’t German, so? Stalin was from Georgia and we don’t mainly focus on Napoleon’s Corsican early years. Hell, Ted Cruz was Canadian until last year, now he’s running for President. Why can’t a German person fly the Swastika with its history in Germany in mind? Hmm…
@doublestuff-
Twelve million Africans were captured and stolen from most parts of Africa (not all) – for financial profit for the English, Dutch. Spanish, French and Portuguese governments aiming to create and provide a new industry in the Americas. Half of that population DIED at sea during the travel to the Americas due to murder, sickness, disease or they were just thrown overboard for various reasons. Of the remaining population that arrived, only 4% were shipped to the the United States. II bring this to yours and others attention to illustrate that PEOPLE were taken and then enslaved using barbaric and inhumane practices to suppress and consistently force insubordination AND suppress the natural thought of uprising and rebellion.
From 1619 to around 1830 this practice of stealing Africans from their homeland to build a capitalistic economy (on foreign soil) that did not exist before was considered a legal entity and Africans, now termed slaves, became the property of White Southern owners. I will add that the North had slaves as well. However, the bulk of the United States gross national profit came from where the MAJORITY of the slaves resided and were subjected as property, which was in the South, At one point the ratio of slaves to Whites in the South was 3:1. Due to the inhumane system of slavery, working and whipping them from sunup to sundown, the cotton and tobacco industry created inordinate wealth in a brief amount of time. The invention of the cotton gin pole-vaulted profits and the greed for more slaves and slave labor. Northern merchants, bankers and business owners felt outpaced and intimidated by this uneven distribution of “Southern wealth.” The system of slavery was not only creating wealth but political power for the Southern States (those that practiced and profited from slavery) to make decisions with or without consent of their Northern neighbors.
The Southern states decided to succeed from the Union because THEY wanted the freedom to practice slavery without interference or amendment– Plantation life was and had been the backbone for their riches and quality of life.
Don’t believe it? Read for yourself what each Southern state said as to the reason why they succeeded. Each state saw the maintenance of slavery as financially necessary for their survival and the removal of such as to the destruction of their beloved economy.
Thank you for your well written, well educated, and informative posts on this subject, all of you.
I hope that doublesteff might have a lightbulb-moment here and realized why that flag should not be flown.
Okay, why is KR’s crotch blurred out in the top pic? Lol. And his legs, his pants, his shoes! He looks like an old Pepaw up there trying to dance 🙁
Well he is the grandpa of a young black child. His son had a baby with a gf, probably now ex, if he’s like his paw.
Also, that story abt Kid Rock and the black woman who gave birth to his son, is disgusting. Get this she’s an auto worker in Detroit, gets pregnant, he sues for sole custody because if course a bush cantbhave his money, he gets sole custody, and SHE has to pay him $25 a month in child support, and put their child on her automotive healthcare plan. That’s bright, even as this jag off toured the country with Mitt ‘I’d let the auto companies fail,’ Romney because UNIONS are evil sapping corporations of dollars with their pesky insurance and pensions, he’s FORCING his middle income black ex gf who he’s deprived of her child, to put his kid on HER auto health plan, even though he’s a millionaire.
He is so many levels of disgusting.
Does Kid Rock not realize that he’s disrespecting his son who is half black, or does he not give a flying fu@k about his son?
When I hear all the stupid stuff Kid Rock says, all I can think about is that Pam Anderson was once married to this idiot….AND Rick Soloman. Hope she is getting some help.
Didn’t she marry Rick Solomon twice? She has serious issues with (bad) judgement when it comes to men…
She is as nutty as they all are, just in different ways.
Kid Rock is Ted Nugent 2.0; completely irrelevant, radically right wing, and sounding more and more bat shit crazy and ridiculous every time he opens his mouth.
Kiss his @ss! Not even if he was standing in a pool of ampicillin and Clorox!
The flag is part of our American history. That can not be changed.
The confederate flag represented some states that wanted to secede from the United States of America and form their OWN country, so no it’s not part of “our” American history.
it’s a HORRIFIC part of history. A flag that represented states rights TO OWN OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. That’s it. That’s all. Any mental gymnastics people may try, to deny that…well..that tells me a WHOLE lot about them.
Wave that flag HIGH bigots! We wanna know who you all are so we can stay the hell away from you. If you don’t know the history of that flag…or won’t acknowledge it…that’s on YOU. Look in the mirror. Really LOOK if you don’t get it.
and……I agree it’s historical. It belongs in a MUSEUM as a reminder of how some states fought for the right to OWN human beings. So I agree. Shameful history is still history. Hopefully we learn from it, but I doubt it.
+1 Vampi. It is a part of history, it cannot be changed, we cannot rewrite history, only learn from it. It belongs in a museum, certainly not out in the open. I’ve never understood why the south has insisted on holding onto that, and I do believe it is divisive and absolutely represents a terrible part of this country’s past.
Which is why it can go in a museum, or you can tattoo it on your azz, but a treasonous racist symbol of hatred shouldn’t be flying above a state capitol that ALL of our tax dollars support.
His interview in Rolling Stone was pathetic. His glee in killing that pig and then replaying it on video for friends showed what a wannabee he is. This is his bread and butter when his previous music career was dying. And the idiots who love that he’s turned redneck lap anything he says or does.
I live in the south and I’m so sick of it. Of course I can’t speak for the entire south but it seems like everyone I see wants to act persecuted while sitting on their mountain of privilege. It’s ridiculous.
I’ve listened to their revisionist history and I still don’t understand why they are proud of fighting a war that they lost? I saw a meme of a white flag that said, “the only confederate flag that mattered.” How true.
If you want a flag that truly represents the south it should have Dolly Parton holding a glass of sweet tea.
Haha..so true. I’d love a dolly flag, or a Loretta Lynn flag, or BB King flag, or a Stevie Ray Vaughn Flag…even better, put all of them together!
Isa I’ll salute that flag!
All I can say is that I am glad I clicked on this post because these comments are awesome. Really not my thing to click on Kid Rock…I barely noticed that there were “links”and bingo: reward! Thanks, everyone!
Cleo, you said it all for me in this post. Wow!!!
I am a fifth generation South Carolinian and nth generation Southerner (my people came over on the early ships and immediately went South–you can draw your own conclusions). I have always known that any recent (post 1960s) flying of the “Confederate flag” represents racism. Taking the flag down from the capital was undoubtably the right thing to do.
The whole redneck romanticizing of the confederate flag is stupid. Kid Rock is not even southern. I feel sorry for his biracial son.
Confederate flag lovers, you lost remember? And slavery ended. You should be embarrassed by the flag not in love with it
I see so many views here that I agree with and it’s great to know how people feel when they feel like you. I’m fixing to get into a heated debate on fb with a supposed friend on this kid rock confederate flag issue and I can hardly wait. After he posted kid rock’s quotes and shared it I commented with, “I can’t stand him, he’s a trophy hunter” which immediately made me think of ted nugent, seeing them both posing with a wild animal they had killed. I’m a fighter for lion conservation and always take the opportunity to voice my opinion for this species. Back to this confederate flag thing and being raised and still living in SC, I don’t know an abundent amount of info on every detail about that civil war, but I’ve been exposed to enough to know it was over the north and the south and their opposing views and what I say about it is for what those views are, I don’t support what the south was fighting for. The first thing that comes to my mind when I see that flag is racism. For all the people it affects, not only black but white too, that should be enough for all to see it’s not a good thing. Our country was created as all men being equal and for a group of peoples not wanting to abide by that because they wanted to keep owning people then fighting a war where so many lost their lives, they should have been kicked out of this country. To me that flag is something to be ashamed of and I am white. Some people can’t accept when something so passee as that war is in the past where it should stay and like others on here, it just plainly tells us all about that person. But I’m glad I found this as so many are making compete sense. Wonder what kid rock would think about this, probably no much so he can kiss all of our arsses, baa haa..
Does Kid Rock still have a career, or is that exactly what he’s trying to revive with this pathetic attention-seeking?
I’m absolutely not defending his previous use of it, but this says Kid Rock hasn’t flown the Confederate flag in a few years.
http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/07/16/kid-rock-flown-confederate-flag-five-years/30226159/
Mississippi opening paragraph “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.”
I love Kid Rock. He’s pure white trash, and doesn’t give a sh*t about it. He tells it like it is, and some people don’t like that or are offended by it. Who cares where he’s from. He’s making a point!!
What the hell point is that?
A stupid racist point, yes.
Imagine the societal progress that could be made if people put so much energy into fighting for a WORTHWHILE cause, which the cofederate flag is clearly not?!
True. People can be very fond of telling black people they’re oversensitive and need to ‘focus on the real issues’ (as if the people calling out for it even care about the ‘real issues’ tha they wouldn’t even be able to identify in a line up), well, they should take their own advice.