Confederate flag is about slavery
Michael Diamond, Community Columnist
3:11 p.m. CDT August 22, 2015
... Mississippi’s official state flag continues to feature an emblem of the Confederate Battle Flag, making it the only remaining state flag that incorporates that symbol. On Monday, Mississippi native and author John Grisham penned a full-page advertisement condemning the flag .. and was joined by a lengthy list of prominent people ... Georgia removed the Confederate symbol from its own state flag in 2001, which coincidentally was the same year Mississippi voters voted to keep it ... Proving that history often is more about forgetting than remembering, some would like to explain away the history of the Confederate flag by assigning new meanings to it ... In the summer of 1835, the future secretary of state, William Henry Seward, and his young family took a trip from their native New York to the South ... While on a road outside of Richmond, the Seward family happened upon a group of slave children who were chained together ... Forget the overwhelming statistics of slavery and the enormous sweep of history, and instead consider the terror felt by those children ...
http://www.postcrescent.com/story/opinion/2015/08/22/confederate-flag-slavery-period/32202681/
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