Yes, You Can Fly That Flag…
Now then, given all this evidence of what the South was fighting for, I think it pretty obvious what the Confederate battle flag (the “Stars and Bars” so popularized at events like NASCAR races) stands for. People love to think of the elegance and the “Southern Gentlemen” and “Steel Magnolias” of the ante-bellum South…
Except perhaps those who lived at the time of course….
"Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds." ~ Mary Chestnut 1861.
But they ignore the fact that that entire plantation system that so characterized the ante-bellum South relied on the exploitation, torture and rape of entire ethnicity. You can’t have one without the other. It’s like trying to own glories of Rome while leaving behind the brutality of the Coliseum and the exploitation of the provinces. Sorry, it just doesn’t work that way.
And in fact, people of the South still felt the Confederacy's ties to subjugating blacks well into the 20th century. They accuse the Klu Klux Klan of co-opting the Confederate flag for the fight to support segregation, but the fact is when you watch those newsreals of the students at Little Rock, all those angry upstanding Southern mothers are waving Confederate flags. You want to tell me they were *all* Klan members?
It's a flag of racism. Deal.
But you know, we are the country of the First Amendment, supporting freedom of speech. So by all means, hang that puppy up above your tailgate.
Just don’t be upset when people look at you funny and call you a racist cracker, because y’know that’s what you're are advertising. I'm not going to run around wearing a swastika and expect people, especially Jewish people, to smile and wave. You shouldn't expect it either.
No, it's no different.
What kills me is that the Stars and Bars was a battle flag. Men fought, bled and died for that flag. Today’s southerners don’t fight to hang it up on anniversary of the Bull Run or the day their state seceded from the Union, they have a snit because they want to hang it up over a kegger.
Yeah, I’m sure their Confederate ancestors would be so proud to see how their flag is being used.
So by all means, wave that puppy high and proud.
Jackass.
Except perhaps those who lived at the time of course….
"Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds." ~ Mary Chestnut 1861.
But they ignore the fact that that entire plantation system that so characterized the ante-bellum South relied on the exploitation, torture and rape of entire ethnicity. You can’t have one without the other. It’s like trying to own glories of Rome while leaving behind the brutality of the Coliseum and the exploitation of the provinces. Sorry, it just doesn’t work that way.
And in fact, people of the South still felt the Confederacy's ties to subjugating blacks well into the 20th century. They accuse the Klu Klux Klan of co-opting the Confederate flag for the fight to support segregation, but the fact is when you watch those newsreals of the students at Little Rock, all those angry upstanding Southern mothers are waving Confederate flags. You want to tell me they were *all* Klan members?
It's a flag of racism. Deal.
But you know, we are the country of the First Amendment, supporting freedom of speech. So by all means, hang that puppy up above your tailgate.
Just don’t be upset when people look at you funny and call you a racist cracker, because y’know that’s what you're are advertising. I'm not going to run around wearing a swastika and expect people, especially Jewish people, to smile and wave. You shouldn't expect it either.
No, it's no different.
What kills me is that the Stars and Bars was a battle flag. Men fought, bled and died for that flag. Today’s southerners don’t fight to hang it up on anniversary of the Bull Run or the day their state seceded from the Union, they have a snit because they want to hang it up over a kegger.
Yeah, I’m sure their Confederate ancestors would be so proud to see how their flag is being used.
So by all means, wave that puppy high and proud.
Jackass.
Labels: Confederate Flag, Poltics
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