All true, and there's nothing wrong with respecting the Union. I just don't see any problem with kids respecting Confederate heritage. It may indeed be the heritage of the individual students in question.
The war against Confederate symbols is just an opening wedge issue for an eventual leftist war against the U.S. Flag and Bill of Rights. Why people are so blind to that, I don't know. But if the Confederate Flag is an evil and offensive symbol, so is Old Glory, which flew over the institution of slavery for almost a century. So is the Bill of Rights, conceptualized by "slave owners" such as Madison and Jefferson.
The time will come when George Washington and Christopher Columbus get the Politically Correct purge from our heritage as well. The only way to stop this nonsense is to nip it in the bud, and that means not letting the hard left set a precedent that "slave owners" are inherently an ugly and offensive part of our heritage in need of eradication.
Well said, but even if it is not their heiratage it is a political statement against government tyranny. I would fly one today if either Gore of Kerry had won. Call me a reactionist or what ever i do not care, but i see the flag as a statement against government by liberals and their like
Praising and honoring Traitors is no way to fight leftism.
"A New Orleans school board has renamed George Washington Elementary for a black surgeon, Charles Richard Drew. The board did not see how black kids could bear entering a school named after a slaveholder." ........ The Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1997
You mention war against the American flag. An interesting account about a war against the American flag is found in the fifth chapter of Hurlburt's contemporary history of the Civil War in Bradley County, Tennessee. Except for some rich merchants and slaveowners and a gang of opportunistic thugs, Bradley in 1861 was a predominantly Union county. The people proudly displayed their Stars and Stripes over the courthouse. But unfortunately for Bradley, the railroad connecting the Deep South to Virginia ran through the county seat. One day a regiment of Mississippi reb soldiers passing through didn't like to see our American flag peaceably flying over free Americans, so the rebs started shooting at Old Glory from the train and were began to make a movement to invade the town. Some citizens wanted to make a fight of it, but cooler heads convinced them it was a losing proposition for unorganized citizens to face off against a trained regiment of reb jackboots on short notice.
Who were the patriots in this incident? How would we like it today if a bands of armed men fired on Anerican flags flying over own communities today?
Should a group of traitors that fired on our Stars and Stripes be the model for patriotic Americans today?