Comments on: Can Hip-Hop Help Change The Meaning Of The Confederate Flag?

By: Happy Elf Mom (Christine)

Happy Elf Mom (Christine) — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:14:00 +0000

Part of the conflict that fed into the revolutionary fervour was precisely because Americans weren’t allowed to expand west into Indian territory. http://www.ushistory.org/DECLARATION/lessonplan/royalproc.asp

By: Jeff Blanks

Jeff Blanks — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:32:00 +0000

But the Stars and Stripes wasn’t raised specifically in order to defend those horrors.

By: Hip Hop and the Confederate Flag | Portland Flag Association

Hip Hop and the Confederate Flag | Portland Flag Association — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 14:43:40 +0000

[…] American University Radio in Washington, DC, just last month published a thoughtful essay entitled Can Hip-Hop Help Change The Meaning Of The Confederate Flag? It features an interview with a little known rapper from Alabama named Lazarus Thicklen II, who […]

By: Happy Elf Mom (Christine)

Happy Elf Mom (Christine) — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:01:00 +0000

Guess what? Nobody says the Stars and Stripes symbolise the untold horrors both blacks AND Native Americans suffered in this country, or complains that wearing or flying it in public is hate speech. Mr. Thicklen is absolutely right about the Confederate flag. It can be his flag, too.

By: C.W. Roden

C.W. Roden — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 06:49:00 +0000

As a Confederate descendants, I don’t entirely agree with all of his points regarding that flag’s history and how its defined. Yet I do see a good bit of common ground in terms of Southern identity and a desire that the flag should present something positive. I would argue that it already does, but simply needs to be presented in its positive ways as a living cultural symbol more often. I do respect Mr. Thicklen’s attempt to stick a thumb in the eye of haters, baiters, and others who try to define that flag as a negative symbol, and I wish him well in his endeavor.

By: De'Meiko Merriweather

De'Meiko Merriweather — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:28:00 +0000

Been following his work for a while, this song, like most of his others, hits on a really heavy topic. A topic that people don’t want to hear, but need to. Even if you don’t agree with it, for a moment, you think about it. I think that’s what make his work so important. He’s breaking ground that hasn’t been disturbed for hundreds of years…and I for one, will be right behind em with a shovel of my own. We all dig for different reasons…but what’s important, is that we are breaking that ground in search of the truth.

Can’t wait for more pieces like this!