KCHE hosts history professor’s lecture on Confederate flag

Herald Courrier ^ | Oct 31, 2015 | Tammy Childress

[bob_denard]

Civil War historian Dr. Brian Steel Wills will present a thought-provoking lecture entitled “Flying in the Face of History, The Confederate Flag Controversy” Nov. 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Kingsport Center for Higher Education.

The Civil War conflict was arguably the most important and influential event in the history of the United States. The bitter harvest of the ordeal lingers regarding the banner that is generally referred to as the Confederate flag – one of many different flags used by the Southern armies during the Civil War. The use of the flag and its changing meanings remain controversial to this day.

Wills’ lecture touches on the flag’s diverse designs, history, and the cultural resonance of this controversial banner. The event is free and open to the public.

[StoneWall Brigade]

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[Bulwyf]

What do you figure this event will be? How many activists will show up? Will there be new laws preventing such events in the future? Inquiring minds want to know.

[vetvetdoug]

IMO this event will be sparsely attended. Dr. Wills is attempting to educate the public about the truth of the CBF. The race of affirmative action, liberals, MSM, progressives, socialists and communists don’t want anyone injecting truth into the narrative they are promoting.

[Verbosus]

I wonder if the lecture will be put on YouTube or some other web source.

[jmacusa]

Then what is the truth about the Confederate flag?

[tbw2]

I typically don’t care about the Confederate flag.
But the liberals have shown that removing it from public “endorsements” isn’t enough, from seeking to punish people who have any public display of it (and death of Anthony Hervey, a black Mississippi man known for sporting the Confederate flag) to demanding ALL monuments get erased ... it becomes an excuse to remove all history.
And I can’t have any sympathy for people attacking the Confederate flag as racist while simultaneously saying we have to ban American flag shirts in schools because it could inflame racist violence by Hispanics ...
This is turning into the Muslim saying “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”. First go after the smaller group, and then go after the bigger one.

Just on that basis, I’d say leave the Confederate flag alone because hundred year old displays didn’t get in the way of 1960s progress, but the time and money to rip it out today doesn’t help ANY kids in the future.
And because it won’t make a difference, then will come the calls to remove everything pro-US, as well, because that’s already been labeled racist, too.