Enlightenment on Confederate flag was long overdue
By Leonard Pitts
June 26, 2015
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else" ...
We appear to be on the verge of a long overdue national consensus that this American swastika is unfit for human consumption. And to think: All it took was the blood of nine innocent people ...
The Confederate battle flag was not somehow made more racist by Roof's alleged rampage. Notwithstanding claims by Graham and others that it has somehow been misused as a racist symbol by the likes of Roof, the fact is the thing was used as such from the moment the first thread of the first flag was sewn in support of a treasonous regime that was, to borrow Mississippi's words, "thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery" ...
So what happened at Emanuel AME did not change the flag's meaning; it only made that meaning harder to ignore ...
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