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That shame was foisted on the symbol by others. There was no "shame" in the confederate flag until very recently. This man has the same right to exhibit his symbols as do blacks who want to display the green red and black separatist flag. No, I do not agree that their trauma was so very great that they cannot bear to look upon the flag. Not one of them was a slave under it. Ever.

It is a totally modern deconstruction technique that unfortunately gains sympathizers. All some ONE has to do is complain about feeling threatened, the entire rest of the population must stop in concerned horror. Lets get real.

As long as "they" want to make it an issue, it will be a symbol, not of slavery and "hatred"[which says more about the user of that term than the subject of that term] but of free expression and individuality.

Ya know, you and I may not like it, but the confederate flag has become the most prominent symbol of segregationism and racism. Too bad, so sad, that's life. Same way with the rainbow flag and stickers. Are you going to drive around with a rainbow sticker on your car and be shocked when someone considers you gay? No matter what, that is the association most people will make with that symbol. Same for the Confederate flag. And from some of the responses I have witnessed and read, not without a measure of potential truth.

But to the original story of this thread, the guy parked on his employer's lot. The employer is free to set standards for behavior/dress/presentation on company property, just like wearing a slogan t-shirt. The employer gave him the option of not parking in their lot, but the employee pushed the issue. I would have fired him, too.

OBTW, I'm a native Texan, spent some wonderful years in Georgia, and had great...great grandparents that survived Sherman's march to the sea(which is why they then moved to Texas). So any posters that wants to throw out the "You Yankees don't understand" reply can save it.