Perhaps he's an idiot to you, but there are more important things in life than money. I don't think he was worshiping a relic, but rather he was taking pride in his heritage, and exercising his right to display the Confederate flag on his truck. The person who should have been reprimanded was the person who complained! The flag is not obscene nor insulting, so people should have more important things to do than try to tell other people what they can and can't do. A license tag is not harming anyone, and it's time "political correctness' was put to rest. Tampa should have been ordered to give him his job back with pay IMO.
The Confederacy is part of the South's heritage as much as the Union is part of the North's. We've been taught a different form of history than the North has. We were taught, and believe, that the war was fought over States Rights, and there is as much history to support this as it is to support the Northern interpretation that it was fought over slavery. Robert E. Lee had no slaves at the time of the war, but Ulysses S. Grant did! We could probably argue the cause of the War Between the States until doomsday, and not all would agree, but the Southerner should have as much right to honor his heritage, as say, the NAACP. Should we demand that everyone remove a sticker or a license plate if it has an NAACP symbol on it because it offends someone? I don't think so, and I do think it's time for common sense to prevail in the court room and the job place! Perhaps the man who fired him should have his job taken for being intolerant of another person's belief, and for denying him his First Amendment Right.
Democrats created the Confederacy, The Confederate flag and the Klu Klux Klan, The Republicans ended slavery, saved the union and created the NAACP.
Being proud of confederate heritage means what? You are proud of being the tools of The Democrat masters, gleefully lynching black people and republicans alike in the south while flying the confederate flag to strike fear in the hearts of those that are on the recieving end of the hate it embodies.
He wasn't denied his 1st Amendment Rights, he wasn't allowed to exercise them in his workplace during the time he was supposed to be working.
Now he has all the time in the world to exercise those rights.
Whatever happened to just STFU and working??? Keep your personal beliefs outside of work, OK?