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Swindlehurstguy
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There is a general ho-hum about how the old SA flag represents oppression and violence and that it is hate speech to raise such a flag. What I would like to see here is forum members stating what the new one represents to them? The flag most definitely represents something, but what? My feeling is that the whilst I would
Not align myself to any part of the old flag that brings about pain and hurt in the memories of South Africans anywhere, I would just a soon not rally around the new flag and what it represents to me. Are we really a rainbow nation or does the new flag represent something just as sinister as the last flag? It?s not my intention to get anyone worked up, I am more curious as to what fellow forumites think on the matter.
Not align myself to any part of the old flag that brings about pain and hurt in the memories of South Africans anywhere, I would just a soon not rally around the new flag and what it represents to me. Are we really a rainbow nation or does the new flag represent something just as sinister as the last flag? It?s not my intention to get anyone worked up, I am more curious as to what fellow forumites think on the matter.