When the Confederate Flag Took on a Different Meaning
By KELLEY LIBBY • APR 6, 2016
... “Being from the Richmond area, we have a strong southern heritage—a lot of people like to call it — and I was like any kid that grew up in my area and kind of always had this ‘it's heritage not hate kind of concept.’”
But when Brian was in middle school, something changed. He says it happened when he was alone in his room, listening to a BB King CD he had bought from the cheap bin at Circuit City ...
“And I remember having this thought, I love BB King so much, but I have shirts with the Confederate flag on it, and I'm saying these things like ‘it's heritage not hate’?
And my little middle school brain, I started kinda thinking like this makes no sense at all. So right then and there was a major turning point for me where I was like, I cannot have like a duplicitous relationship with the world. I'm not a racist person. I love the blues, and I love, you know, everything to do with all kinds of music — that you can't separate different kinds of people” ...
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