A giant Confederate flag went up in the Ozarks. One woman answered with this billboard

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

After a giant Confederate flag was erected this past winter along a popular route to the Lake of the Ozarks, Amanda Burrows of Tuscumbia, Missouri, felt compelled to respond.

The flag, she believes, is an “outdated symbol of racism.”

“I didn’t think it was appropriate that the flag would be allowed to speak for everyone in this community,” Burrows said. “After being angry about it but not being constructive for several months, I noticed that the billboard in the direct line of sight of the flag was available.”

That has led to her putting up a billboard with the anti-racist message of “EQUALITY BIGGER THAN HATE.” She wanted tourists and visitors to know “that Confederate flag does not represent all of us.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-confederate-flag-went-ozarks-214716853.html

[Hoyt]

1. Kudos to Amanda Burrows.

[Demovictory9]

28. yes!!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yes, thank goodness for Ms. Burrows. Pls. remember that this town's population is 203 (2018)

and that by far more Missourians are nothing like this idiot who put up this idiotic, unpatriotic flag, instead of a U.S. Flag.

[Volaris]

3. If it were my billboard, it would say

You lost once, you'll lose AGAIN.

Good on her tho.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. eggscllent .

[nilram]

5. On GoFundMe. She's now up to 115 donors.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/equality-bigger-than-hate?qid=e44cfab689a0e85727280ffc61946247

Do your thing, DU!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. Up to 340 donors, now. $14,164 raised. Well past the goal of $3,850!

Supporters of the flag have argued that the flag represents historic pride and defiance. But to many, it is viewed as a symbol of hate, racism and white supremacy. Some have argued that it is a relic that belongs in museums, not on official display.

Yeah, pride in their history of taking up arms against the USA in defiance of efforts to outlaw them owning other human beings. Not exactly exonerating. Flying the battle flag of that fight is anti-patriotic and that damning fact ought to be repeated every time that symbol of oppression appears.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. You Forgot "Losing"

The flag represents everything you wrote, but it also represents losing a war THEY started.
It's a flag of hate, and of failure.

[moose65]

23. Missouri wasn't part of the Confederacy

They almost had a mini-Civil War within their state between Unionists and Confederate sympathizers. Why celebrate something that almost tore your state apart, as well as the country??

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Was Aware Of That

Which throws the "heritage" nonsense out the window.
Still a flag that represents losing.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Here is a pic of the billboard right next to the huge flagpole with the traitor flag on it

Kudos to her!!

[erronis]

11. That's a pretty limp excuse of a flag that represents failure.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. LOL

[wnylib]

7. The Democratic Party online store

sells a tote bag for $25 that says "There is no place here for hate."

I bought a t-shirt in a discount store that has a heart on the front and says, "In world full of hate, be kind."

In addition to big signs, there are many ways to carry the message every day.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

22. Will have to take a look..thanks. Re: sign, white flag would suffice--hey you, you

: friking lost--get over it! Would that be too mean?

hi:

Paz

[wnylib]

24. The flag sounds good to me.

But you could only read it if it was fully open in the wind.

What about a flag with the GOP elephant on it and the word "loser" in big letters? Easier to read one big word on a flag than a whole phrase or sentence.

[niyad]

8. Excellent

[Lonestarblue]

10. The Confederate flag exalts treason against the US.

Article III, section 3 of the U. S. Constitution defines treason: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

The Confederate states levied war against the United States with their attack on Fort Sumter, the attack acknowledged as the beginning of the war. Had those who committed treason been held accountable after the war instead of being allowed to live free lives with the opportunity to re-cast the war as one about states rights rather than slavery, we would likely not have this glorified version of history today. Reconstruction was an utter failure because white people wanted it to fail. And today, we have a Republican Party made up primarily of white people who still glorify the Confederacy because it exalted white people over all other races. The people who worship the Confederacy today essentially still believe in slavery and the right of white people to subjugate all others and to nullify all rights but theirs.

[pressbox69]

13. How about

A bag or a shirt that says

A WORD TO ALL RACIST REPUBLICANS...

BE GONE!

[Dustlawyer]

14. We should tell them that we will go back to the Confederate days if the ones that revere

the Confederacy and it’s flag, statues etc., are willing to be the slaves this time.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Billboard suggestion::: Thank God republicans won that war back in the 1860s.

[Bo Zarts]

16. Shout it Sister Amanda!

Do I hear an amen?

Amen!

[mizogan]

17. Lee and Jackson did not endorse the continuation of "the lie"

These quotes were found at https://www.bustle.com/articles/96114-robert-e-lee-and-jefferson-davis-wanted-the-confederate-flag-to-come-down-in-the-1800s

"I think it wisest not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered." Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army

"My pride is that that flag shall not set between contending brothers; and that, when it shall no longer be the common flag of the country, it shall be folded up and laid away like a vesture no longer used." Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy

[gopiscrap]

27. welcome to DU

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Nicelt Done Amanda Burrows!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Nicely done! Gotta use spell check more...

[Pas-de-Calais]

21. Nice Amanda Nice

[hadEnuf]

25. This country went to war with the Confederates resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties.

We have largely ignored the treasonous symbols and rhetoric coming from the pockets of assholes in various areas, especially the south where it all began.

Now, instead of laughing at goofballs "still fighting the Civil War 150 years later", we are seeing politicians of that persuasion seizing power, violence or threats of violence against people who oppose them and we even had an attempted coup in Washington DC with many of the insurrectionists parading around Confederate flags. They also have a de facto "president" in Donald Trump.

These people are not Americans, they are Confederate traitors once again raising their ugly heads. If I recall correctly, Confederate congressmen and senators were expelled after the Civil War.

Maybe we need to start "fighting the Civil War" in a sense again too.