Quote:The situation with the Confederate flag is stirred by nothing more than emotions.  It's no different. 

 

It's irrelevant what has happened elsewhere.  In SC, the flag is flown over a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers on the capitol grounds. Considering what the monument is, the flag is an appropriate display regardless of how offensive it may be to some. If the flag is offensive there, then so would the very existence of a monument dedicated to the dead soldiers, so then what?  Should SC dig them all up and move them somewhere that is less offensive? At some point there's a line.  Where would you estimate that is?

 

Every state except for one that had the Confederate Battle Flag included in their state flags has removed it.  Odds are the last holdout will do so in the not too distant future.  So, the Confederate flag isn't a symbol associated with government institutions.  It's an historic symbol being associated with those individuals who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War.  That's not some sort of endorsement by government.  It's simply recognition that the history does indeed exist.

 

If it's a concern about flags flying over government facilities, the American flag offends many people.  It should be taken down.  I live in Florida.  The state flag has native Americans on it.  Considering their plight in American history, and because I have Indian heritage, should I demand that the flag be changed because my ancestors were murdered and robbed of their rights by the evil white man even before slavery became a scar from which this nation has still not fully recovered?

 

I'll concede your point of this being an emotional reaction to the recent shooting. My feeling is it should have never been erected in the first place, especially permanently bolted 30 feet above a memorial on state capitol grounds. Just like the naming of Forrest High School, it was typical of many symbolic acts in southern states in the late 50s/early 60s in reaction to forced integration.

 

Your point about the depiction of a Seminole woman on the Florida state flag is interesting, but not really relevant. Is there anything about it that honors those who died in the genocidal campaign against Native Americans?

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