Amen
Q&O posts on the renewed debate over the Confederate battle flag. To those who are uninitiated in the racial politics of the South, every four years we have this insipid debate as to what to do about flying the battle flag on the state capitol grounds in Columbia, SC.
Would I ever fly one at my home? Hell no. I don’t want to hear those old arguments about “heritage”. I’m a proud Southerner. So what. I believe that flying the battle flag has more to do with manners than anything else. Do I want to offend people unnecessarily? Do I want to intimidate a portion of our population (and trust me, it does)?
Let’s face it. Flying the battle flag is just rude. That still doesn’t mean that the people of South Carolina, or anywhere else, don’t have a right to do so. It’s really none of Hillary Clinton’s business what they do in Columbia.
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Let’s see…I’m Irish. Does seeing the Union Jack flown make me go ballistic over the Potato Famine and other persecutions of Irish Catholics by the English? Does seeing the ugly Irish mug used as a mascot for Notre Dame hurt my feelings? Nope. Irish were treated like dogs in this country, as anyone knowing history can tell you. But that’s part of the past and there are too many problems facing us today for me to get bent over someone’s flying either the Union Jack, or Old Glory, for that matter.
That said, knowing some people are bound to be offended, I guess I’d take a pass on the Confederate Flag. Saint Paul did say we shouldn’t cause the weaker brother to stumble.
Especially amused at seeing “come-heres” from the South flying the Confederate flag on Chincoteague. That island was part of the Union during the Civil War, and it earned the animosity of the rest of the State of Virginia for it. I wonder why the Tiggers don’t go tell the flag-owners what for.