Changes mind on Confederate flag (LTTE)

[struggle4progress]

... My initial zeal for keeping said flag on display had its genesis in ignorance. I viewed the flag as a symbol of Dixie, the Old South, sweet-smelling magnolia trees and, of course, the consummate soldier, General Lee — all the romanticism, and none of the bloodshed, either in the cotton fields or on the battlefields.

The fact that so many people, blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, wealthy and poor, wanted the flag removed aggravated me to such an extent that I finally researched the subject. Amazing how tempering emotions with facts can change one’s perspective. Case in point: I previously thought that particular flag had been raised after the Civil War in memory of those Confederate soldiers killed in battle, and as a symbol of southern pride. Not so. It was raised during the ’60s in defiance of Martin Luther King and Civil Rights and Brown v. Board of Education and integration in general ...

http://www.njherald.com/story/29559424/2015/07/15/changes-mind-on-confederate-flag

[Historic NY]

1. History doesn't change, it how its used that does....

people will ignore the facts or truths to justify their own agenda.