That's not the battle flag, that's the naval ensign. You would think the SCV would know the difference.
Thank You! It's a pretty flag and it makes me kinda warm inside. I fly the "Bonnie Blue".
"...say they are reminders of the slavery era and Alabama's racist past>'
EVERY STATE had a "racist" past and slavery was pretty much the normal state of things in most states until the American Revolution and half the Country until the Civil War.
The Stars and Bars was the flag of the Confederacy, not the flag of slavery.
That sounds like a stunt designed to piss people off. Whoever mounted the flag is an attention whore to the higest degree.
This is the same rep who claims that legislative moves to protect the definition of marriage in Alabama are similar to Nazi war crimes:
State Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, an outspoken critic of the Confederate flag flying from public buildings or on taxpayer owned property, said he's concerned the location of the flag along a main route from northern and midwestern states to Gulf Coast beaches will hurt the state's image.Holmes has no ethical and moral compass to be pronouncing judgment on these keepers of history.
"But legally I don't think there's anything we can do about it because it's on private property," said Holmes, who was once arrested along with other black legislators for trying to remove a Confederate flag that at the time flew from the dome of the state Capitol.
Holmes said he believes for many people the flag "represents slavery, racism and oppression" and urged the Sons of Confederate Veterans to take it down. -- AP article
They're going to have to get over it.
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They must hate blacks. Where is Jesse?
Keep in mind that there were actually free black men and women who lived under this flag. Not everyone sees it as threatening.
Not for long.