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.
yep, it ‘holding a picture’ to save ‘breath’
Well, no, not if the people of [fill in the State] don't see it that way.
If you think that's the case, then the Journolister abusers have won you over at least, and I'm sorry to hear it. I don't believe a word those b*stards say, because I know they've been on the warpath for 25 years now, as a campaign of "cultural imperialism", to get Southerners to give up barbecue and persimmons and start eating knishes and bagels instead. But the campaign is more valuable to them than any cultural inroads they might make (like persuading Tidewater people to say "youse guys" and "f'geddaboudit"), because they're playing it for "keepsies" politics.
it is up to the people of South Carolina and Mississippi
I agree. But the campaigners know how to make the merchant Republican class go "squish" by threatening economic boycotts, which sets the hoteliers and vendors' groups to squealing, and they rush to the governor (as they did in Georgia over the flag controversy there, and got a Republican governor, a winner, to go back on his political promise and go "squish"), and beg him to surrender the State, to avert the wrath of the NAACP, the NFL, and whoever else the civil-rights NGO grandees and their power-junkie pals can get to go along with them.