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...could cook and clean for white people but couldn't sit at the same table. "And I was taught that the reason we seceded from the North was to maintain that system," Weary says. He says that through his friendship with Paris, he has understood the history-and-heritage argument for the first time. Paris says although he will always love that flag, the Ku Klux Klan stole it from him and made it a symbol of hate. Because of his friendship with Weary and other African Americans, and because "as a Christian man I cannot do that which harms...
...favor of the successful effort to leave the rebel symbol on the state flag. The flag has flown since 1894. (In other Southern states, the Confederate symbol wasn't raised until after federal antisegregation legislation was enacted in the 1960s, a fact that routs the "history-and-heritage" argument the way Grant routed Lee.) Faggert tells me that anyone who understands history respects the flag and rejects the notion that it is a sign of slavery or hatred. It was under that flag that his ancestors defended home and family against an invading army. "The whole issue of race...
...taken a few digs at the N.A.A.C.P.," he acknowledges. "Is the N.A. really for the A.C.P.?" Several years ago, he says, a series on racism began with the argument that in order to move on, the South had to reject racism. In a later installment, a writer took issue with that. Sullivan remembered the gist of the article being, "Why I will not condemn Southern racism: we've got nothing to be ashamed...
...There's some truth to the argument that the [Confederate] flag represents the idea of resistance to tyranny," Sullivan says. "While it might be unglamorous in modern-day politics to say this, I don't want to integrate the schools simply because the Federal Government wants...
...have argued that PSLM should go. The most effective aspect of their protest has been the tremendous outside support it has generated—the non-coercive and far more visible endorsements and rallies. Withdrawing from Mass. Hall while maintaining the daily pressure would deny Harvard its central argument and increase the likelihood of fruitful negotiations. We have also urged Harvard to open negotiations after the PSLM has left, and to implement a living wage in the legitimate interests of its workers. But neither outcome seems likely to happen...