ABW.

I respectfully disagree with you.

Slavery did exist in the North. As a matter of fact, that is where the institution of American slavery had its genesis.

See this link:

http://www.slavenorth.com/index.html

The North has done an excellent job bamboozling the world into believing the lie that only the evil South kept black people in bondage.

The North failed to develop large-scale agrarian slavery, such as later arose in the Deep South, but that had little to do with morality and much to do with climate and economy.

North and South.

They both ahd a hand in the degradation and brutal mistreatment of America’s black citizens.

References:

“Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery”, by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank.

“Many Thousand Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America”, by Ira Berlin.

And you are right.

The North was no bastion of tolerance.

And neither was the West either, with its Black Laws of the Old West, and the many Sundown Towns that were built all across America that drove black people from pillar to post under racial covenants, racial pogroms and ethnic cleansing that no other race, save Native Americans, have ever suffered under.

Which is a long way of saying that, though I disagree with most folks who would fly the Confederate flag, I don’t feel their flag should be desecrated any more than I feel the American flag should be so even though I’m not a huge fan of America. I think such attitudes are unnecessarily crude. The piece of art I wrote about in this post doesn’t enter the territory of desecration, IMO, because it’s commentary, not just a middle finger at the south.

Ask the ghost of Derrida. I’m sure he’ll agree.

“Not Untitled” is okay, too.

:^)

The Confederate Flag has only one meaning: White Supremacy.

In practice: enslave the blacks, rape their women, whip the men, keep them away from education.

The earlier version was the stars and bars as a small square in the upper left corner, upon a pure white field.

Don’t let anybody kid you about what that soiled toilet paper of a flag really stands for.

We must destroy, mock, and humiliate every symbol of illegit power and misanthropy. Persecuting these symbols strikes at the core of the evil they represent.

The Coffinederate Flag that flogs a race into subjection is to be abused and burned at every opportunity. I have done some Confetti-erate flag desecration rituals on my Justin.tv channel.

Keep up the good work.

Too didactic? Oh please. It’s a clever title and it works with the sight to form one complete desecration act.

The Confederate flag does not have a government to defend it or to move into the future. Let’s keep in mind that cotton did not grow in the north and that the African slave shipping was from ALL northern ports.

If you asked in 1861 what the Mexicans, Indians, or migrant Chinese what they thought of the American flag we wouldn’t be surprised. It is interesting that the Confederate Constitution was nearly the same as the United States Constitution and that they wanted to take the stars and stripes as well but the north already had it. In further, we must note that the newly freed black men were more than happy to be formed into regiments of buffalo soldiers and help enslave, rape, and annihilate the western Indians.

When I see the Confederate flag I see it as a symbol of southern pride and smaller centralized government.

I love you! :-)

We are constantly subjected to the remarks of Robert Hurst and his cohorts.

Hurst writes letters to our local paper, writes a column for a monthly publication, Wakulla Area Times, titled The Confederate Journal. The kindest comment I can make about Hurst would be that he suffers from a severe case of cranial rectal inversion.

It is my opinion that Hurst is a racist hiding behind his beloved Confederate flag. He and his group are not promoting Southern heritage, rather they are promoting hatred and bigotry.

Recently, our community raised funds for a monument to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the monument was placed on our courthouse lawn and dedicated just a few weeks ago. It was a time of great pride for many of us.

The following week some imbicile wrote to our paper whining that they wished to have a monument erected to Robert E. Lee. He was unable to convey his request without taking verbal shots at the NAACP, Christian Coalition, and Dr. King.

I also had the pleasure of recieving a threatning phone call as I had donated money to erect the monument to Dr. King. I won’t repeat the words used but I will say this, I was told I would be taught a lesson.

You see, I’m an angry white woman who grew up in the 60′s. What “lesson” are these people going to teach me? None.

I enjoyed the Sims exhibit, his message was clear and 100% on the money. I only wish he’d put Billie Holiday’s rendition of Strange Fruit in the” proper way to hang a Confederate flag.”

What sickens me the most was reading Florida Statute 256.051 which offers full protection of the law to the Confederate flag and all other emblems of the Confederate States as well as ALL military and naval forces…

Just consider me an old white woman who is sick and tired of hatred and the nonsense that goes with it.