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...Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was suspended without pay by the NBA for refusing to stand during the national anthem. Abdul-Rauf, an American citizen, converted to Islam in 1991. For the entire season he has remained in the locker room, sat and stretched, or turned away from the flag during the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner...
...editorial "Confederate Flags Must Vanish" by David W. Brown (Mar. 4) was characteristic of the prejudice shown against white Southerners by many who oppose the Confederate flag. In it, white Southerners were accused of murder, rape and general oppression of Blacks. While some whites in the South committed these acts, the statements must be qualified in order to reflect reality...
...Brown ends his editorial by assaulting America's First Amendment rights with his statement, "Furthermore, the Confederate Flag should be torn down wherever it is raised." To tear down a flag someone has raised on their own property smacks of the Nazism Brown rightfully decried in his editorial...
Unfortunately, he and the majority of anti-Confederate Flag militants have yet to realize that modern Southerners view the Rebel Flag not as "a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights," but as a symbolic middle finger cast at those who hold so many racist stereotypes of the white Southerner. --Randy Karger...
...RACISM IS NO longer a problem. He should visit the Black Belt of Alabama, where African-American churches are being torched, a black judge's home has been shotgunned, and people generally feel under siege. From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome...