Let me supply some background and, dare I say it, focus.
The campaign against the Battle Flag was begun by The New York Times in 1991 with piece by a Southern renegade writer named Ray Garganus, who "suggested" that it was time to put away the Confederate flags.
This coincided with a new push by the NAACP to spike up black voting turnout, which has been low except in certain years, by waving the bloody shirt and shouting "cracker, cracker! Right over there!!"
Bill Clinton has always demonized the white South with quotes uttered for consumption in the black community about "them" and "those people" (meaning white men), and about how bad and hateful they are. If anyone got up and said something like that about the black race, every journalist in the United States would have a stroke.
The "Confederate flag controversy" is an artificial one, and it has always been a political exercise in blackguarding and demonizing southern white voters, for the benefit of Northern liberal politicians. The "controversy" and the identification of the Battle Flag with "segs" and "haters" and "them" has been purely a project of northern Journolisters and the NAACP.
Sorry, but there it is. Sorry you've been influenced by their clear-eyed malice.
re: “The “Confederate flag controversy” is an artificial one, and it has always been a political exercise in blackguarding and demonizing southern white voters, for the benefit of Northern liberal politicians. The “controversy” and the identification of the Battle Flag with “segs” and “haters” and “them” has been purely a project of northern Journolisters and the NAACP.
Sorry, but there it is. Sorry you’ve been influenced by their clear-eyed malice.”
I think you mis-read my entire post. I do not view the Confederate Battle flag, nor any of the Confederacy’s flags, with hatred or racism. But, whether we like it or not, the media has been successful in identifying it as such.
But, whether people view it that way or not - it is up to the people of South Carolina and Mississippi as to whether or not they include the Battle flag on their respective state flags. It is none of my business since I do not live in either of those states - nor your’s if you do not live in one of those states.
pedals start to fade by the picket fences .... nobody calls one to ‘pull into a different drum’ ... ‘We’ tried our best ....
Bingo. You nailed it that the Confederate flag controversy is an artificial one. I have no problem with the descendants of Union veterans want to honor their ancestors. I have no problem with blacks wanting to honor rheir ancestors. They have every right to. But if I choose to honor my Confederate kin and the flag they fought under,you’d think it was the crime of the century the way some busybodies react. I have family who served on each side and I respect and admire them all as real men who had the courage of their convictions. But there are folks, especially those of the liberal variety,who recall the likes of Benedict Arnold and Adolf Hitler,to those who admire their kin in Gray. No one is forcing them to fly the Confederate flag. Why can’t they just quit brewing up a storm of rancor on those who do fly that flag? They yap about bigotry and racism. Yet,they stir up bigotry and racism with their nasty remarks and attitudes. And,yes,I realize there are those on the Southern side guilty of the same thing. The men in Blue and Gray were all Americans and we do well just to let everyone admire whom they want to on either or both sides. I hope I don’t sound incoherent,but I’m sick of kill-joys continually stirring up a hornet’s nest.