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Liberals And the Confederate Flag

Clinton_Gore_92 [1]Free speech and the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia   Liberals, to include John Roberts, has assumed the right to deem what words and symbols mean.  If they can concoct one nefarious meaning they condemn the word or symbols as offensive, not offensive per se, but offensive because it offends them.

Lately the liberals have taken to being offended by a representation of the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginian, which in their ignorance they call the Confederate flag, from Soledad O’Brien and Rose Marie Arce, Time [2]:

This flag could wave wherever it wants, if the feeling in the air was about unity. It wouldn’t matter. We wouldn’t care. But there is much to care about because our country is raw with racial tensions and inequities. Because the wealth gap between blacks and whites is rising. Because black males are 21 times more likely to be shot dead by police than whites. Because, according to the Pew Research Center, 70% of blacks believe they are treated less fairly by police than whites, 68% by the courts, 54% at work, 51% in school, 44 % in stores and restaurants.

Yes, our children have equal access to public education and laws bar workplace discrimination. But it feels sometimes like we can sit at the lunch counter, but can’t really order from the menu.

In the much proclaimed but seldom practiced spirit of diversity and unity, I challenge O’Brien to find a pausable meaning in the battle flag which does not offend her. Try this, by in large the Confederate Army was fought by southerns who did not own slaves. That is whatever for which they were fighting it was not keep their slaves.

The southern states called their men to arms and some three hundred thousand never made it back home alive. That was a lot of sacrifice, and it deserves respect, without regard to what O’Brien thinks about it. The American Civil War was the most traumatic episode in American history and as Americans we need to come to terms with it. The men who fought the war made peace with their brothers in other uniforms. O’Brien should do no less.