The Georgia Flag Flap Continues

[Tmy]

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030508/D7QT2P901.html?PG=home&SEC=news


I guess Georgia is looking for yet another flag cause the one from 2001 was too ugly (according to "flag experts"). The contraversy over the rebel X still lingers. At the same time as georgia deals with the whole "white only" prom. ARe things going backwards down there or did they never change?

I read a story how a city hall (here in Massachusetts) was flying the contraversial X flag. Someone finally complained and it was taken down. I was ok with that, especially since its not even the state flag anymore. Soon after some guy from Georgia wrote a letter to the paper critisizing the removal.

I was wondering if people have noticed the flag flying around their city halls? I say call your mayor and have that rag taken down! Lousy traitor confederates.

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by Tmy
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030508/D7QT2P901.html?PG=home&SEC=news


I guess Georgia is looking for yet another flag cause the one from 2001 was too ugly (according to "flag experts"). The contraversy over the rebel X still lingers. At the same time as georgia deals with the whole "white only" prom. ARe things going backwards down there or did they never change?

I read a story how a city hall (here in Massachusetts) was flying the contraversial X flag. Someone finally complained and it was taken down. I was ok with that, especially since its not even the state flag anymore. Soon after some guy from Georgia wrote a letter to the paper critisizing the removal.

I was wondering if people have noticed the flag flying around their city halls? I say call your mayor and have that rag taken down! Lousy traitor confederates.


This should be a poll.. With one answer..

1. They never changed..

[kedo1981]

What gets me is that most of these “Rebel” sympathizers don’t even know that the so called confederate flag; wasn’t. The flag that these “rednecks” ( I can say it cause Iys one ub um) is the Navy Jack not the flag of the Confederate states.

And seeing how General Buford (sic) “the founder of the post war KKK” chose that as the Klan’s’ symbol it is based on a raciest dogma

[GrapeJ713]

The flag displays the state's coat of arms and the words "In God We Trust" on a blue corner in the top left, with three red-and-white stripes to the right.

Does anyone smell an ACLU lawsuit holding this up? What business is it of the state of Georgia to endorse and put it's trust in a god?

[Checkmite]

I just love the argument that the flag is a "symbol of southern culture and heritage". Out of over 200 years of southern culture and heritage, the flag represents less than 3. :D

[Thumper]

Whenever my friends start singing along to the Charlie Daniels Band song, "The South Shall Rise Again," I always ask them, "Rise and do what? Enslave another nation?"

[schplurg]

Civil rights groups had threatened an economic boycott if Georgia revived the Dixie cross, which many blacks lawmakers call a symbol of oppression. Southern heritage advocates, on the other hand, called the new flag a betrayal.
For anyone interested in the apparent point of view of the proponents of Southern Heritage, I found this site:

Heritage Preservation Association web site.
http://www.hpa.org/

Arguments Against Confederate Symbols - And Why They Fail
http://www.hpa.org/arguments.htm

On the South's secession:
When issues again caused serious citizens to consider a new declaration of independence, there was not a man alive who did not believe in the words of the original Declaration of Independence, that a people had a God given right to throw off a government that they believed oppressive. The spirit with which Southerners decided to declare independence in 1860 and 1861 was the same as that which led to the break with Britain in 1775.
This site attempts to rebut the "myths" about the south's past and what the symbols represent. Interesting read. I'm just not sure how much of it is true. I'll look into it some more for my own knowledge, but I'd be interested in hearing points of view from anyone at JREF who lives in the south.

Why is the south so hell-bent on retaining it's "heritage"? And just what aspects of this heritage do they find valuable, and why? I've wondered this for a long time. Who exactly are these people that are trying to hang onto the past? Is it the majority of southerners, the racists, the Klan? The Republicans? ;)

I lean toward the "let go of the past" side of the issue, but I'd like to hear from those who feel that this heritage is worth preserving. Maybe the south is getting a "bum rap". Convince me :)