Although not a court ruling, one other event made this past week a loss for freedom. The knee-jerk reactions to the Confederate Battle Flag.
I’m not from the South and I’m not a supporter but I certainly recognize the rights of southerners to fly that flag. This is not as offensive as the gay pride colors on the Stars and Stripes, bastardizing the American flag.
As a Southerner, let me address the Confederate flag issue.
We lost the war, and in April 1865, Grant magnanimously signed terms with General Lee at Appomattox, allowing us to keep our horses and arms to return to and rebuild our homes, it was then time to case our banners and our flags and become one country again. The war was over. NOT to be forgotten, and not to forget the heroes who fought and died for what they perceived to be their country—their state.
When remembrance was due, we uncased the old flags and banners, maybe put on the old grey uniform, and marched and remembered, solemnly and sadly. BUT—the war was over, and we were one America again.
It was in the 1950’s, 60 or so years after Jim Crow laws spread across the South, that the Civil Rights struggle began. I have no shame to say that we treated blacks poorly form a legal standpoint, but still maintaining we also knew each other quite well—so much of our lives were intertwined together—black workers that every white man knew and loved, black nannies raised thousands of white Southerners...
In any case, the politicians of the South, almost ALL democrats, brought out the Confederate battle flag from its case to use it as a symbol not of a sad and lost cause, but as a defiance to black people and their own political aspirations. And it was. We should understand that. THAT was how it was used throughout the 50’s and 60’s.
So when that flag flies upon a state capitol building, or beside it, remember it was put their by RACIST democrats.
It should come down.
Now that’s my personal opinion, based on real history that I’ve either seen or was told from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. My mother, for example, was a proud supporter of Dr. King and his Civil Rights cause. She always hated the racist, back-stabbing democrat politicians, and I suppose a lot of that rubbed off on me.
She also hated the race baiters that came after Dr. King, rightly considering them to have turned what was really a victorious struggle into a never-ending power-play and whine-fest. She hated how Obama was dividing, not uniting the country, but was not surprised. She understood democrats.
Confederate flag first American flag later.
Quite a lesson on how the socialist democrats are ready on a literal moments notice to turn whatever tragic event occurs into an advancement of their agenda. A 21 year old white male kills nine people in a church because he hates blacks and immediately there is a hue and cry for gun control and removal of the Confederate Battle Flag. The tragedy of lives lost has become secondary to agendas which are always front burner for socialist democrats. Confederate flag out, Rainbow flag in. Guns for American citizens out. Guns for socialist democrats and their elite in. And on and on. Rest in peace for those victims who were murdered and who are now pawns in the democrat war on this Republic.