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...common defense of the Confederate flag is that it does not only represent Dixie's shameful history, but the better elements of the Southern tradition as well. One disgruntled reader attempted to equate the rebel flag with the U.S. flag, which has also stood for torture and murder...
...subjugation, and the Southern whites who restored its flag to prominence during the '50s used this flag to demonstrate their desire to continue the domination of black citizens. When has the white South made formal moral or material restitution for its racism that could even begin to redeem the rebel flag...
...become familiar with works such as Richard Wright's Black Boy or Martin Luther King's Why We Can't Wait. Or perhaps they should view documentaries of the civil rights movement such as "Eyes on the Prize." These visual records illustrate Dixie's depravity and demonstrate the rebel flag's racist connotations--in the turbulent '50s and '60s, no good segregationist was seen without the stars and bars, which was frequently emblazoned on a vest or embroidered on a Ku Klux Klan robe...
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...
Movies like "Rebel Without a Cause," "The Incredible Shrinking Man," "Lassie," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Jailhouse Rock" are all class requirements...