[raybbr]

The young man seems to think that confederate clothing is appropriate in Anderson County as he is quoted elsewhere as saying that the reb flag is the "South's flag". But it's not Anderson County's flag as the county voted down secession by 1278 to 97 on 6/27/1861. It's a shame that so many in that region seem ignorant of that area's admirable heritage of resistance to the Confederate invader.

Were you alive back then or do you insist on living in the past? Something that happened over a hundred and forty years ago does not make a good case for social constructs.

Do you feel the need to make reparations for slavery, too?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Were you alive back then or do you insist on living in the past? Something that happened over a hundred and forty years ago does not make a good case for social constructs.

It's people who claim the heritage of the Confederacy that most often are focused on the past. But if somebody claims to focused on the past it helps to be as knowledgeable of the past as possible. And I think a broad claim about "southern heritage" in a region that generally hated the Confederacy should be addressed.

Do you feel the need to make reparations for slavery, too?

The proper time for reparations ended over a century ago. The USA missed the boat on that one. Guilt and victimhood and privilege is not inherited in this country. It's not insignificant that titles of nobility are prohibited in the Constitution.