I need to do some serious catching up with the heritage attacks. From March to now, I count eleven attacks on Confederate heritage. Obviously, it's just the flag thing and what it represents to some people. Unfortunately, those "some people" are now the ones calling the shots on the national scale.
These are just a brief accounts.
MARCH 4TH, BARABOO, WISCONSIN-- A high school student got in trouble for honoring his dead friend with a Confederate flag. The principal called it the "symbol of hatred and slavery." UW-Madison Professor Stephan Kantrowitz, "That flag represents evil, hatred and bigotry." You have to wonder how a person can get to be a college professor making statements like that?
MARCH 6TH, NASCAR-- Ben Jones, a star of "The Dukes of Hazzard" is waging war with NASCAR over its decision not to allow the General Lee car to be on the track. "It's political correctness run amuck and I'm outraged." And NASCAR started out as a Southern thing. Sure forgetting its roots.
MARCH, MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY-- The Confederate flag will not be displayed with other flags outside the new Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox. Only the flags of the Confederate states and the U.S. flag will be flying outside. The director's rationale, "The Confederacy never unified with the government, the individual states did."
This attack really hurt, especially considering the name of the museum, but I imagine that will be changed soon for fear of offending. I wonder if they even allow Confederate flags inside or pictures of them.
MARCH 27TH, DELAWARE-- An employee at the Department of Transportation was threatened with a one-day suspension because his personal truck has a Confederate license plate on its front bumper. The ACLU is getting involved on his side.
Just Makes Me Mad. --Old Secesh
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