Word: flag
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However, I felt that the inflammatory nature and sweeping generalizations that filled Mr. Brown's article merited a response. I disagree strongly with his contention that the Confederate flag only represents "murder, lynching, rape and treason" and only embodies the "vilest capacities of man." I will not deny that those hideous actions occurred underneath that flag, nor will I hide from the fact that the "vilest capacities of man" were manifested under the Confederate flag in the form of slavery. Yet, all of these actions also have occurred underneath the American flag. Slavery was practiced underneath the American flag decades...
These facts of history are a shame to the entire nation, not only the South. Even in our own century the American flag has stood for the support of merciless dictators that served our nation's need, and it is the flag of the only country to have ever used nuclear power to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. As an American, I acknowledge and regret the tragedy in my nation's past, but the Stars and Stripes still represents the flag of freedom to me, and I choose to focus on the good my nation is capable of doing...
...same is true for the Confederate flag, for it represents the courage and sacrifice of men who fought and died to protect their home, their family, their state and the belief in honor. My great-great-grandfather lost his arm fighting under that flag, not to protect slavery for he was too poor to even consider owning a slave, but to protect what he understood to be the rights extended to his state by the Constitution...
...opposition to Professor Gomes, I argued that the Christian forgiveness process in the form of a formal Harvard memorialization of White Harvard sons who fought under the flag of the Confederacy to sustain American slavocracy--which is to say, to sustain tht violation of Blacks' humanity--should not commence in our era. And, pointing to the indispensible centrality of the interplay of moral and operational steps to Christian forgiveness, I argued further that if such a forgiveness process should evere commence, it must be preceded by viable evidence of a redeeming process executed by White Southerners in particular and White...
...know that the keepers of the conservative flame now consider it "anti-American" to target scapegoats and misuse patriotism for cheap political advantage. They're right. But do they by any chance remember the sneery majoritarianism of George Bush's campaign of 1988--the one all about saluting the flag and prison furloughs? Maybe they even remember back to 1968 and 1972, when Pat Buchanan helped Richard Nixon start this fine Republican tradition...