Posted on 05/23/2015 5:59:59 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
to Burn the Confederate Flag
A Florida college professor’s plan to burn a Confederate flag on Memorial Day is stirring up controversy by those who say it should instead be a time to remember those who have died while defending America’s freedom.
Julian Chambliss, chairman of the Department of History and Africa and African-American Studies program at Rollins College, told the Orlando Sentinel that he decided to host the event because the days of slavery in America are dead.
“That part of our history needs to be buried,” Chambliss said.
The ceremony will be just one of several to take place across the nation Monday. The events are the results of Confederate art projects by John Sims who says he was “amazed” by the Confederate flags everywhere after moving to the Sunshine State.
“We are in America, and people have the right to fly whatever flag [they want],” Sims told the Sentinel. “And I have the right to bury whatever flag, and to burn whatever flag.”
But others in the community don’t see it that way at all.
John Adams, whose relatives died while fighting for the Confederacy, said Memorial Day is a day to remember fallen soldiers.
“Respect that day and let our boys who gave their lives rest in peace,” Adams told WKMG-TV.
Still, Sims maintained that the symbol of the South brings back “toxic memories” of American history, especially for African Americans.
“There’s a notion of ‘Southern Heritage’ and who owns [that], but a very important part of Southern culture is the African American experience,” Sims added. “The Confederate flag is a flag of terror from its use by the Klan in the ’20s to the anti-civil rights movement in the ’50s and ’60s.”
“The flag is almost too toxic to handle, and for those who do, I’m suspicious of their engagement: Are you in denial?” he said.
The event will be held at the Greenwood Urban Wetlands and will include Chambliss’ introduction, an African American-influenced musical performance and the “memorial event,” during which attendees will put the flag in a box, burn it and pour the ashes into a pond for a “belated burial.”
Are they going to bury the history of free-blacks owning black slaves in both the North and South?
>> connection between the Florida State Flag and the CS Battle flag...
St. Andrew’s cross
(Oh, yeah - and there’s plenty of slavery in the USA - plenty of his kinfolks are on the Democrat plantation.)
Memorial Day is about honouring the troops and those who served.
this jackass wants to make it about him instead.
“We are in America, and people have the right to fly whatever flag [they want],” Sims told the Sentinel. “And I have the right to bury whatever flag, and to burn whatever flag”
Really? I wonder how he’d react if a group of same-sex marriage opponents decided to have a Rainbow Flag Burning Day?
I sense a cottage industry popping up. Producing paper flags, specifically for burning.
They could have queer flags, communist flags, tree hugger flags, RAT(jackass) flags, Mexican flags, baby-killer flags.
Just imagine the exploding heads.
Oh, I forgot.
Mohammed flags.
Lincoln stumbled into a war but never doubted that he was acting with sufficient authority. He and Grant and Sherman chose to end that war as soon as and Johnston surrendered their armies, having accepted the verdict of war. Then Lincoln was shot and the Northern radicals pushed the issue beyond mere political capitulation to social revolution by disenfranchising the white majority in favor of a white majority raised to power by the votes of what was most states, a black majority. That situation could not last given that the great majority of Northerners felt little sympathy for the blacks. by 1876, the white majority in the south had gained control of the governments of the former Confederate states. The South had not been able to create a nation separate from the north but Reconstruction nonetheless had done more than the war to create national feelings in the South, and in the 19th century, nationalism was a a sentiment too strong to allow much tolerance for other nationalities. Even the European immigrants, at least those not from northern Europe, were not really welcomed, and their suffered as much, at least economically, as the blacks did, the difference in suffering being one of degree not kind. Blacks are naturally so focused on their own hardships to realize how far from equality other national minorities were suffering. Not until after the second World War did anything like equality emerge even among the whites, and blacks might do the hard work of trying to put themselves in the shoes of others who suffered property and discrimination.
Brave and good men (and boys) died under both flags.
This moron, and those like him, can’t get that through their thick sculls.
Obama brought much of this trash back into all of our lives. When this is over in 19 months - NEVER AGAIN.
Incorrect. Most slaves came to America under this flag:
Also true.
You’re cool; do you want to be my friend?
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