Flag-Wavering

it was a backroom deal despite the promise of letting the people vote on the flag

A Georgian told me they're going to get a vote on the 1956 flag after all -- up or down -- versus keeping the "new-new" flag after all. I don't remember exactly what he told me, but at least the Ben Barnes blue rag is no longer in the mix. And Mississippi still has theirs, the wrath of the NAACP unavailing to the contrary. Interesting that in the state where so many of the real struggles about civil rights and votes for blacks took place (the white citizens' committees, the murders of Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo and others, the strength of the Klan, and so on), fully a third of black voters voted against the position of the NAACP and refused to act spitefully toward the rest of the state.

On the other hand, Mr. Edgerton wants to "integrate" the old Battle Flag by making it his own -- I can only imagine what old Theo Bilbo would think about that; and I'm sure the NAACP now agrees with Bilbo!

Must be that rumored drop of black blood in the esteemed senator, don't you think, that has brought him at last into perfect congruity with the position of the NAACP?

;^P

"Eventually, the Dukes pull into a college town and meet a group of African-American students. When Bo Duke asks them for directions, they stare in disbelief at the car. One of them asks, "Is this a joke? Some kind of reality show?" Bo doesn't understand why they're upset, and replies he thinks the flag is "cool." He explains that his friend Cooter, "a Civil War buff," repaired the car and painted on the flag."

" It takes the savvier Luke to size up the situation and explain to Bo that some people find the flag "offensive... a symbol of slavery." Bo protests, "I don't want to oppress anybody," and his cousin affirms this. That's apparently enough to persuade the African-American students Bo is not a bigot. "No sweat," says a student, who lets him park the car."

BS ALERT!!!!

Sounds reminiscent of the Communist party lines of "We stand for the Workers and the Proletariat" as they butchered the people. Or how about Robespierre's "Citizen" during the bloodbath immediately following the overthrow of Louis XIV during the French Revolution.

Georgia debated dropping the "stars and bars" insignia from its state flag for years before finally doing so in 2003

Actually, the current Georgia flag is the "Stars and Bars", based upon the 1st National Flag of my Southern Nation. It removed the "Battle flag", or the flag of the Confederate soldier, from it's banner.

Although I believe that the Confederate government was much closer to the Constitutional framework proposed by the Founders, than that of the Lincoln administration, I find it ironic that the official flag of the Confederacy would be more palatable than the "soldier's flag", who fought for hearth and home, and not for politics.

IMHO

Larry

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