But what kind of rebel are you?
Michael J. Sargent
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Regular readers of this newspaper are likely familiar with the event formerly known as the Redneck Olympics. Now known as the “Redneck Blank,” after the threat of legal action by the U.S. Olympic Committee forced a name change, the games have continued ... What also continues, of course, is the unapologetic and unironic display of the Confederate battle flag ... When asked for their views, several attendees at the Hebron festival dismissed the idea that the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of racism. To them, it’s merely about rebellion, or in some cases, the claim is that it’s about “states’ rights” in the abstract ... Suppose a slave from South Carolina escaped and managed .. to get to Maine ... Maine’s right to stop that woman’s return to slavery was not a “states’ right” that was of concern to the states of the Confederacy ... That flag flew over troops fighting for nothing more than the right to enslave Black people. Anyone who celebrates that flag now is announcing to the world that he or she is either ignorant of that fact, or simply does not care about the suffering of those Black slaves whose prolonged bondage was what those Southern rebels were fighting for
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