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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

"We're Not Racist Morons, We're History Buffs!"


As southern states like South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia and Tennessee call for the removal of the Confederate flag from state property, and numerous retailers like Amazon, eBay, Sears, WalMart and Target pull all Confederate flag merchandise ("Say, is that a real rebel flag or just a Sears rebel flag?"), we have a curious holdout here in Columbus.  A small, family-owned flag store says it will continue to offer Confederate battle flags for sale to the public.

This is of special interest to me because the store's owner is a neighbor of mine.  On the plus side, she has generously donated American flags displayed at the entrances to our subdivision.  On the other side, she says she'll keep selling the Stars and Bars because "we've always categorized it as an historic flag."

Funny -- that's what I've always categorized as wrong!  And stupid!  The Confederate flag was the home jersey for Team Slavery.  Yeah, it's history, but it's very bad history.  We remember it, and acknowledge it with shame and regret.  It's just not cool to try to profit from from it.

Does my neighbor sell Nazi flags?  Khmer Rouge flags?  Historic, but c'mon!  No way.  She should stop selling Confederate flags.  Yesterday.



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