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| "City of Five Flags" logo on a lamppost in historic downtown
Pensacola. |
"But racists and state legislatures voting to protest equality by flying the flag atop their capitols long since made the Battle Flag's hijacking an accomplished fact," says the author of the article below.
Evidently, he hasn't seen (or has chosen to ignore or disbelieve) the statements of some of those very state legislators about their real reasons for flying the Confederate flag above their statehouses.
And where is the author's acknowledgment that hooded terrorist nightriders have also hijacked the Stars and Stripes, as a program on the Discovery Channel recently confirmed?
This article brandishes just a few of the phony and malicious arguments of the cultural Marxists who wish to erase all memory of the Confederacy from the American consciousness. Knowledgeable Southrons can blow this stuff out of the water with one simple weapon: truth.
Just so this author -- and everyone else reading this website -- will know: there is a growing proSouthern movement. We're not only growing in numbers, but in knowledge and power. Get used to it. We are taking our ancestors' honored symbols back from the racists on one hand and the leftist liars on the other. Continue your attempts to oppose us if you wish. We will prevail. Truth always does, sooner or later.
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Could the Battle Flag be the next
red flag for New
South?
by
Kenneth E. Lamb
Will the Confederate Battle Flag controversy hit
Pensacola next?
Creeping up on us is the repudiation the Battle Flag is receiving across the New South.
It's a tragic situation no matter which side of the controversy you call home.
For non-racist descendants of Confederate veterans, the Battle Flag symbolizes a point of pride about their cultural roots: family sacrifice for the philosophy of State Sovereignty. For African-Americans and many Jews and Catholics, it symbolizes Jim Crow "justice," lynchings, hooded terrorist nightriders and pointblank murder.
Several decades ago, Pensacola got its "Five Flags" image going, and of course, the Confederate Flag would be one of them. It's my understanding a Confederate heritage group picked it among several flags the Confederacy used during "The War Between the States."
In the early 1950s, this wasn't a problem for Pensacola. The Old South was the Solid South when it came to apartheid legislation and public policy. What the African-American community thought about the Battle Flag didn't matter.
But this isn't the early 1950s. Statutory Southern apartheid, the White Citizens Council and the Klan are dead. But the hair-trigger emotions about the Battle Flag's symbolic power are as alive as ever.
South Carolina is feeling the heat. The NAACP is waging a convention boycott to force it to stop flying the Battle Flag atop its capitol. This got the backs of some white legislators up, and they are just as determined to keep it flying. A compromise suggested by the governor, to leave the flag up in exchange for his supporting a state holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., got nowhere. The situation is deteriorating.
Just four months ago, the problem struck closer to home. In Mobile, the Adams Mark Hotel chain told the Sons of Confederate Veterans they are "persona non grata" after some put the flag up in their windows. This offended African-American employees so badly they wouldn't show up to work.
Adams Mark President, Kred Kummer, wrote the group his mostly black work force "find it nearly impossible to work effectively in the environment created during your conventions." He added to the Associated Press, "that a Confederate flag, to put it in front of a black person, is kind of like putting a red scarf in front of a bull."
Of course, the Sons object, justifiably, to the knee-jerk racist label. A spokesperson, Collin Pulley, agreed; "It's offensive to me, too, when I see a hate group abusing our Confederate symbols."
But racists and state legislatures voting to protest equality by flying the flag atop their capitols long since made the Battle Flag's hijacking an accomplished fact.
Now Pensacola's use of the flag is bubbling up. You don't need tarot cards to predict it will be the next racial flashpoint.
Frankly, Pensacola flies the wrong Confederate flag, anyway. The Battle Flag never officially flew over Pensacola; the proper flag is on display at the Civil War Soldiers Museum downtown. Flying the wrong flag is historically ignorant, and insults the memory of those who died defending the city.
Will Pensacola avoid the next racial standoff by moving now to substitute the right flag for the wrong one? Let's hope the city's leadership is perceptive enough to heed the storm warnings. We don't need another national negative publicity debacle, especially over a flag the city's fallen Confederates never saluted.
"For African-Americans ... [the Confederate battle flag] symbolizes
Jim Crow 'justice,' lynchings, hooded terrorist nightriders and pointblank
murder."
A 1994 Lou Harris poll showed 88% of all Americans, including more than two thirds of all African Americans from all regions of the nation are NOT offended by Confederate flags, and indeed, believe that Confederate symbols are honorable.
Most people, including most black people, realize that the Klan and other racist groups have no legitimate connection to the Confederate flag they wave just as they have no legitimate connection to the US and Christian flags they wave. They are outlaws and therefore have no legitimate connection to almost anything.
"But racists and state legislatures voting to protest equality by flying the flag atop their capitols long since made the Battle Flag's hijacking an accomplished fact."
Many of the remaining South Carolina legislators of the civil rights era -- and those of other states, was well -- have confirmed that their intentions in raising the flag over capital domes were strictly to honor Confederate veterans and war dead -- nothing more, nothing less.
It's interesting that the author isn't ready to give up the U.S. flag, the Christian flag, or the cross, even though the Klan has hijacked them, too. Could it be this is just the excuse given for public consumption, and there's actually another reason for attacking the Confederate flag?
"Frankly, Pensacola flies the wrong Confederate flag, anyway. The Battle Flag never officially flew over Pensacola; the proper flag is on display at the Civil War Soldiers Museum downtown. Flying the wrong flag is historically ignorant, and insults the memory of those who died defending the city."
What's with this "flew over" obsession, anyway? Pensacola's five flags are supposed to represent the nations of which Pensacola has been a part since Europeans came to these shores. The Confederate battle flag best represents the Confederacy -- not just in our era, but during the existence of the Confederacy itself.
In fact, it was so symbolic of the Confederate nation that the Confederate Congress voted to replace the national flag, known as the Stars and Bars (the author's "proper" flag), with a new national flag that incorporated the battle flag in its design. This design was modified late in the war, again by a vote of the Confederate Congress, and this final design also included the Confederate battle flag as its major element.
Flying the flag that best represents the Confederacy is not "historically ignorant." It is the most accurate way to recognize the reality that the Confederate soldier was the heart and soul of the Confederacy, and his bravery, honor and valor shaped the nation.
The author, and now the city manager and, presumably, the entire city council, thinks the "proper" flag is the one the Confederate Congress voted to replace!
"We don't need another national negative publicity debacle, especially over a flag the city's fallen Confederates never saluted."
The city's fallen Confederates didn't just fall here. They fell in Virginia and Tennessee and Georgia and Alabama. They fell under the Confederate battle flag -- the flag that honors the 258,000 Confederates who died defending liberty and self-determination. It honors the 100,000 who were wounded in that terrible war. It honors the veterans who came home to a land devastated by war and by atrocities committed by the Union Army that we can scarcely imagine today. It honors their strength of character as exhibited throughout the horrible oppression of the South during martial law and Reconstruction, which didn't completely end until FDR. To say that flying it "insults their memory" is egregious revisionist history.
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This article appeared in the November 26, 1999 issue of The Florida
Sun.
Kenneth E. Lamb
Creeping up on us is the repudiation the Battle Flag is receiving across the New South.
It's a tragic situation no matter which side of the controversy you call home.
For non-racist descendants of Confederate veterans, the Battle Flag symbolizes a point of pride about their cultural roots: family sacrifice for the philosophy of State Sovereignty. For African-Americans and many Jews and Catholics, it symbolizes Jim Crow "justice," lynchings, hooded terrorist nightriders and pointblank murder.
Several decades ago, Pensacola got its "Five Flags" image going, and of course, the Confederate Flag would be one of them. It's my understanding a Confederate heritage group picked it among several flags the Confederacy used during "The War Between the States."
In the early 1950s, this wasn't a problem for Pensacola. The Old South was the Solid South when it came to apartheid legislation and public policy. What the African-American community thought about the Battle Flag didn't matter.
But this isn't the early 1950s. Statutory Southern apartheid, the White Citizens Council and the Klan are dead. But the hair-trigger emotions about the Battle Flag's symbolic power are as alive as ever.
South Carolina is feeling the heat. The NAACP is waging a convention boycott to force it to stop flying the Battle Flag atop its capitol. This got the backs of some white legislators up, and they are just as determined to keep it flying. A compromise suggested by the governor, to leave the flag up in exchange for his supporting a state holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., got nowhere. The situation is deteriorating.
Just four months ago, the problem struck closer to home. In Mobile, the Adams Mark Hotel chain told the Sons of Confederate Veterans they are "persona non grata" after some put the flag up in their windows. This offended African-American employees so badly they wouldn't show up to work.
Adams Mark President, Kred Kummer, wrote the group his mostly black work force "find it nearly impossible to work effectively in the environment created during your conventions." He added to the Associated Press, "that a Confederate flag, to put it in front of a black person, is kind of like putting a red scarf in front of a bull."
Of course, the Sons object, justifiably, to the knee-jerk racist label. A spokesperson, Collin Pulley, agreed; "It's offensive to me, too, when I see a hate group abusing our Confederate symbols."
But racists and state legislatures voting to protest equality by flying the flag atop their capitols long since made the Battle Flag's hijacking an accomplished fact.
Now Pensacola's use of the flag is bubbling up. You don't need tarot cards to predict it will be the next racial flashpoint.
Frankly, Pensacola flies the wrong Confederate flag, anyway. The Battle Flag never officially flew over Pensacola; the proper flag is on display at the Civil War Soldiers Museum downtown. Flying the wrong flag is historically ignorant, and insults the memory of those who died defending the city.
Will Pensacola avoid the next racial standoff by moving now to substitute the right flag for the wrong one? Let's hope the city's leadership is perceptive enough to heed the storm warnings. We don't need another national negative publicity debacle, especially over a flag the city's fallen Confederates never saluted.
"For African-Americans ... [the Confederate battle flag] symbolizes
Jim Crow 'justice,' lynchings, hooded terrorist nightriders and pointblank
murder."A 1994 Lou Harris poll showed 88% of all Americans, including more than two thirds of all African Americans from all regions of the nation are NOT offended by Confederate flags, and indeed, believe that Confederate symbols are honorable.
Most people, including most black people, realize that the Klan and other racist groups have no legitimate connection to the Confederate flag they wave just as they have no legitimate connection to the US and Christian flags they wave. They are outlaws and therefore have no legitimate connection to almost anything.
"But racists and state legislatures voting to protest equality by flying the flag atop their capitols long since made the Battle Flag's hijacking an accomplished fact."
Many of the remaining South Carolina legislators of the civil rights era -- and those of other states, was well -- have confirmed that their intentions in raising the flag over capital domes were strictly to honor Confederate veterans and war dead -- nothing more, nothing less.
It's interesting that the author isn't ready to give up the U.S. flag, the Christian flag, or the cross, even though the Klan has hijacked them, too. Could it be this is just the excuse given for public consumption, and there's actually another reason for attacking the Confederate flag?
"Frankly, Pensacola flies the wrong Confederate flag, anyway. The Battle Flag never officially flew over Pensacola; the proper flag is on display at the Civil War Soldiers Museum downtown. Flying the wrong flag is historically ignorant, and insults the memory of those who died defending the city."
What's with this "flew over" obsession, anyway? Pensacola's five flags are supposed to represent the nations of which Pensacola has been a part since Europeans came to these shores. The Confederate battle flag best represents the Confederacy -- not just in our era, but during the existence of the Confederacy itself.
In fact, it was so symbolic of the Confederate nation that the Confederate Congress voted to replace the national flag, known as the Stars and Bars (the author's "proper" flag), with a new national flag that incorporated the battle flag in its design. This design was modified late in the war, again by a vote of the Confederate Congress, and this final design also included the Confederate battle flag as its major element.
Flying the flag that best represents the Confederacy is not "historically ignorant." It is the most accurate way to recognize the reality that the Confederate soldier was the heart and soul of the Confederacy, and his bravery, honor and valor shaped the nation.
The author, and now the city manager and, presumably, the entire city council, thinks the "proper" flag is the one the Confederate Congress voted to replace!
"We don't need another national negative publicity debacle, especially over a flag the city's fallen Confederates never saluted."
The city's fallen Confederates didn't just fall here. They fell in Virginia and Tennessee and Georgia and Alabama. They fell under the Confederate battle flag -- the flag that honors the 258,000 Confederates who died defending liberty and self-determination. It honors the 100,000 who were wounded in that terrible war. It honors the veterans who came home to a land devastated by war and by atrocities committed by the Union Army that we can scarcely imagine today. It honors their strength of character as exhibited throughout the horrible oppression of the South during martial law and Reconstruction, which didn't completely end until FDR. To say that flying it "insults their memory" is egregious revisionist history.
--Connie Ward
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2000 by Connie Ward, Perpetrator. All rights reserved.
February/March 2000
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