Should I remove the confederate flags?

[Randall Nix]

I want your views on whether or not I should remove the confederate flags from the site. I have never wanted to promote prejudice or hatred, I have wanted to promote a better understanding of our family history. Please let me know what you think and I will make a decision in the next month or so about whether or not to remove them, based mainly on the feedback I receive from you.

[Henry Sims]

Do not remove the confederate flags.
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Henry Sims

[Leslie OConnor]

No I don't think you should, it is our family history good, bad, or otherwise. The confederate flag itself is not a symbol of hatred, just the people who used them in a hateful way.

[henry curtis nix]

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE FLAG, IT MEANS SO MUCH. thanks! [e-mail]

[henry curtis nix]

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE FLAG, IT MEANS SO MUCH. thanks! [e-mail]

[henry curtis nix]

Feb 25, 2008 2:52:07 GMT -5 @Randall Nix said:

I want your views on whether or not I should remove the confederate flags from the site. I have never wanted to promote prejudice or hatred, I have wanted to promote a better understanding of our family history. Please let me know what you think and I will make a decision in the next month or so about whether or not to remove them, based mainly on the feedback I receive from you.

[anita]

No. It’s history. For many, the flag isn’t about slavery. For many, it is. This is not the proper forum for that debate. It’s the same as the holocaust. Do we remove all vestiges of the holocaust because it’s offensive. No. We need the reminders of these horrors as a warning to avoid anytytbat would take us there again. History is history. We can’t nor should we erase it.

[bobnixnicks]

Usually there was not any issues about Confederate flags until issues were created by misappropriation or revenge of NAACP type issues. Because there is an issue at hand then it befalls those concerned to promote their reasoning. Albeit that is difficult in the media as nature of the Confederacy was minimized on to today. Therefore it would be an undertaking in research that such debates have stirred up more education about the Confederacy other than the charges of slavery which are not nonsensical insofar as slavery is practiced in Africa to this very day. Therefore in the modern day political field, the contesting of the Confederacy has become a political dodge-ball from descendants or received a retaliation from non-related groups such as LGBT and immigrants. Understanding this is also misappropriated Confederate history by others or even related groups to Confederate descendants does not change the fact that these are emblems or monuments that do not feel feelings and do not convey feelings but are simply war monuments such as the newly recent Charlottesville monument ruling by their judge.

The fact that many not completely white persons were Confederate or Confederate descendants today is a counterbalance of charges of racism and if racism is a charge then various sides might not be guiltless in the debating, but nonetheless as a family group history we are aware of our grand-parents grand-parents tribulations, for we learned from their survivors. Furthermore, the Africans in America could own slaves and did. So, what occurs in shirking your family participation in wars it did is not excusable, for one side was here or there or yonder. There is no shame in having been a slave or serf, but in failure of duty there is calumny that we have the duty to withstand the imposition of upon us.

Even what we think we know of the Confederacy is not enough for there is enough truth in the Confederacy that it was only defeated by lack of war resources but there is also lack of knowledge about the further charges made against the Confederacy of positive or negative types.

For one can not come blaring out ''we black, we black'' or ''we white, we white'' and rewrite history but might add as well their founders faults also.. for we know that Africans rulers made participants of Africa into a world slave trade and depleted some regions of Africa depleted that are underpopulated to this very day. That being also many various relationships have furthered the diversity of Confederate descendants so hat it becomes a hazard to beg the difference in descendants that are entitled to their share of their history, their wars, what sides were where, there, or yonder.

For as the US flag flies for its mistakes and success, so does the Confederate flag of States soldiers at odds deserve no less. For pause to think that if besides the Federal army, is there a by-law in the Constitution for dis-jointed States to invade another?

So in the end, whomever is stuck with their family history is stuck with it, these past generations and the generations of more recent diversity should not be ashamed either but rather be of a dutiful nature to accommodate all as well.

For again, should the UN remove its flags, should each State removes it flag over various complaints of storms after storms already endured?


For of course we all must change our names also?

[nixnock]

My name is David Nix, I am looking for any info on Allen King Nix Sr. 1820-1845 or his wife Martha Truelove 1822-1845.

Allen King Nix 1840-1923
Son of Allen King Nix Sr
William Daniel Nix 1871-1954
Son of Allen King Nix
Charlie Elmer Nix 1905-1987
Son of William Daniel Nix
William Melton Nix 1930-2009
Son of Charlie Elmer Nix
David L Nix
You are the son of William Melton Nix