So you say you wanna kick the South out of the Union, eh?

[JustAnotherGen]

18. I've notice that voice growing louder too

Every day at DU lately "get rid of them all" grows louder and louder, more and more voices

.

I think today (specifically today and yesterday at DU) the outrage is because of the use of the Confederate Flag. . .

If you were educated in a small North Eastern town by teachers in their 70's (Grandchildren of Union Soldiers) - the Confederate flag has nothing 'intellectual' about it. . . It's a symbol of 'those people shot at us' and then later - it became the symbol du jour for Jim Crow, White Supremacy - and the violence these laws and ideology inflicted on those who were 'others'.


Love it or hate - the reality is - that flag - as it is flown and bandied about today - IS indeed a a symbol of the Confederacy. Now I have a Misssissippi Confederate flag in my possession - regardless of what regiment an ancestor of mine fought in - That flag as it is today has come to represent Confederate beliefs. On the other side of the line - I have German American ancestors rolling over in their graves that I even possess that . . . but I also have one of their Pennsylvania Union soldier hats in that same trunk.

That flag waved in front of the white house the other day - that HOUSES a black family with black children - was a DIRECT threat against that family.

It had nothing to do with
Freedom

Pride

States Rights

For those of us that walk with black skin and who have a history (though mixed) in the South - we know it's intent is to 'threaten us'. Nothing more and nothing less.


Those people at that RALLY had every intent of threatening those two girls that live in that house.

I have no doubt that Sister Sarah Alaskastan smirked and giggled about it later. I truly believe that is WHAT she is. At her heart. At her core. She's that evil.

But it was THOSE people. THOSE TEA PARTIERS.

It was not the entire South.