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Trace Adkins explains Confederate flag earpiece
Nov. 30, 2012, 8:29 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- Trace Adkins wore an earpiece decorated like the Confederate flag when he performed at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony, but says he meant no offense by it.

Adkins appeared with the earpiece on a nationally televised special for the lighting on Wednesday. Some regard the flag as a racist symbol and criticized Adkins in Twitter postings.

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But in a statement released Thursday, the Louisiana native called himself a proud American who objects to any oppression, and says the flag represents his Southern heritage.

He noted he's a descendant of Confederate soldiers, and says he did not intend offense by wearing it.

Adkins -- on a USO tour in Japan -- also called for the preservation of America's battlefields and an "honest conversation about the country's history."

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Tommy Doom
Nov 30, 2012 9:04AM
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Yeah People are so ****ing stupid, The confederate flag is  not racist at all, racist groups like the kkk take its meaning way out of purportion as does the media. the civil war was fought because lincoln wanted to preserve the union, slavery wasnt the main reason for the war it was one of the Reasons during the war but that wasnt the main cause
Heartland25
Nov 30, 2012 9:04AM
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whoa doggie!  All the southern poverty states are out today.  I say, let em have the loser flag.  For that matter, since they are all fired up and ready to secede let em go.  The south is by far one of the worst things going for an otherwise decent country.  Highest living in poverty, lowest in education, they really are a blight on the USA and what's even worse is that they think THEY are the ones who are patriotic yet sport a flag that represents their attempt to leave the U.S.  Get used to it, these people are crawling out of their trailers at record speed since we have a 2 term black man in the "white" house.  Give em a break, they are at their breaking point.
NearlyForty
Nov 30, 2012 9:04AM
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What people who defend the Confederate flag and the display of it in any form is that it has dual meaning and significance. While it represents pride in southern heritage to some Caucasians, it symbolizes oppression, racism, hatred and domination in its worst forms for all Americans of African descent. It cannot mean only one thing and not the other as they cannot be separated. Those who insist that they only embrace the rebel flag due to pride in their heritage need to realize that the Stars & Bars flew proudly during the brutality of slavery, Reconstruction and the advent of the Klan, lynchings, Jim Crow and all that. You take on the totality of the flag and what it means, not just what you want it or intend it to mean.
jrcphc
Nov 30, 2012 9:04AM
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I believe the First Amendment permits us to display whatever we want to.. and his hertiage is as important to him as the black power shirts and Che shirts are to others.don't like it, tough.
gl36
Nov 30, 2012 9:03AM
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Show me one black(African/Americ​an) that's not a Racist. I'm from the South, I'm part Cherokee, but I'm not offended by these stupid little things that make no difference in Our Real Lives. Get Off Your Lazy Butt, and Go Do Something For Someone That Needs Help.
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