Posted on 07/12/2015 9:11:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
In the wake of the shootings in Charleston, an amazing national groundswell of support has built for removing the Confederate flags that have flown from state capitals throughout the South. Businesses like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart have banned the selling of flags and flag-related material. The country's largest flag maker has said it will stop making the flag entirely. And guerrilla protestors around the country are starting to deface the statues honoring Confederate generals and politicians.
But the reach of the Confederacy—and the almost-insane tone-deafness of organizations and politicians who celebrate its history—goes well beyond the flag and hides in other insidious ways throughout the region. Here are just a few examples:
Kappa Sigma is a fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869 (note, after the South had lost the Civil War). Today, it boasts more than 18,000 collegiate members and many more alumni, including North Carolina Senator Richard Burr. It also boasts one—and only one—honorary member: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, racist, and traitor to America
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Nazis. They'll never change.
The insanity over a relatively benign symbol ensures much bigger insanity is to follow.
Mark my words, soon they will be defacing our greatest Founders and trying to remove their well-deserved memorials.
Typical liberal author who only wants free speech for his ideas.
Fortunately the comments give me hope that all is not lost in this country.
You’ll find this interesting. The article is infuriating but the comments are great.
I wonder how FastCompany can stay in business if they align themselves with writers like this.
It’s amazing how much liberal bloggers hate freedom. And Stone Mountain is not a part of the Georgia State Parks system. It is owned by the Stone Mountain Memorial Foundation and operated by a private business, I believe.
You can not fix stupid.
It is operated by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association but OWNED by the state of Georgia. I will be damned if I EVER vote for a Republican Governor, Senator, or Representative that participates in defacing any part of it or its entire complex.
Next they’ll wanna reoccupy the South.
....Makes millions, is uneducated...still on the Plantation of The Left.
Looks like one of Che’s boys.
Jay-Z is against racism and violence and he wears a Che Guevara t-shrt? SMH.
Nice website. Especially the review of a artsy film on tranny hookers /sarcasm
They’ve already swiped at that with the PC gigantic natural carving nearby of that Indian on horseback.
What a bastardly bunch we’ve all become.
Even Trump got on the wrong side of this issue. The same loony’s would also put Trump into a museum.
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