Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Zell Miller, Georgia's Democratic Governor, proposed removing the disgraceful St. Andrew's cross from the state flag, only 25 percent of white Georgians favored this proposal. Thus, it is safe to assume that a majority of white Southerners continue to uphold some of Dixie's most persistent traditions--a stubborn rejection of rational thought and a rancorous veneration of the profane...
Those who revere the Confederate flag often allege that the Southern way of life is a grand tradition. The most cursory scrutiny of this proposition completely undermines its claims to validity. The Southern gentleman, who was supposed to be a gallant, aristocratic hero, was a craven degenerate. This slave-owner would sneak out of his house late at night to rape black women and girls. As light-skinned mulattoes began to appear on his plantation, he began to actually enslave and brutalize his very own children...
...irrational hatred symbolized in the rebel flag is often all too palpable in Dixie today. Although Southern racism is sometimes masked, the extent to which raw and malicious discrimination still infects the South would shock most northerners...
...United States will be disgraced if the Confederate flag flies over the Summer Games in Atlanta. Every decent American should be outraged that the Confederate flag will be displayed to the world, announcing a rejection of all that is upright and noble. Traitors, miscreants and goons from Jefferson Davis to Orville Faubus will be laughing in their graves...
...even more assertive acts of resistance are necessary. The Georgia state flag should be burned--great bonfires of this symbol of evil should be lit all over Atlanta. Furthermore, the Confederate flag should be torn down wherever it is raised. To allow it to fly without serious, even militant challenge is unpatriotic and unacceptable...