"accepting the conclusion of the civil rights movements."
Accepting that conclusion is one thing, destroying history because "somebody MIGHT be offended" is something else.
Had it not been for the North and oppressive "Reconstruction", the South would be a far different and better place today.
Buncha liberal blue-zone yankee doodle bull cr@p. 1961 was the centennial of the start of The War.
Because this county has undone the work of racists RATS it will be attacked by the Defenders of Slaverocracy.
When you only use part of the quote, "which was created in 1961", it looks as if the county of Amherst (in which my husband's ancestors lived) used the controversial symbol to push segregation. However, seeing that the seal was redone as part of the county's bicentennial, that assumption loses credibility.
I'm not going to deny Amherst County's history. My brother graduated from what I believe was the last segregated senior class at the high school in 1968. I attended what once was the black Central High School (then Amherst County Junior High School, and fully integrated) in 1978-79. And yes, it was considerably smaller than the white high school...but the black population is, according to Wikipedia, about 20% of the county. So it could afford to be smaller. Yes, they fought tooth and nail against integration. I'm not proud of that.
But I'll tell you this. I lived there until I went to college in 1984, and came back from 1990 to 1993 to live in Lynchburg. I still have friends in the county and my mom lives in Lynchburg. And in that time period, strides were made in race relations that you would not believe. Interracial dating happens, and now it's no big deal anymore. It wasn't even THAT big a deal in the early 1980s when I was in high school there. I never saw evidence of racism in the school. Never. You can believe it or not, but it's the truth.
Down there, the races mix, and mingle, and work with and for each other, and nobody gives the 1950s and 1960s much of a thought anymore except when someone of the perpetually-offended class decides to squawk about a tiny St. Andrews Cross in the middle of an obscure county seal.
That's because, white or black, we're Southern. We're Virginian. And y'know, it's damned hard to explain to somebody who didn't grow up with it, but sometimes, that just trumps what color your skin is. And there's a hell of a lot of blue states and blue cities that could learn a LOT about race relations from a place like Amherst County, Virginia, regardless of what they've got in the center of their county seal.
After all, it's worth noting that that symbol was on the county seal for forty-three years before somebody complained. Oh, and as for the seal itself...y'know the only place you really ever see it? On the tax stickers that go on the windshield of every car registered in Amherst County, a new one every year. They're about, eh, four inches on a side, so the seal's probably no more than three inches on a side. You'd need a magnifying glass to spot there was a St. Andrews Cross there.
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Time for you guys to come in out of the cold and lower the American flag. Time to admit that your people lost the Vietnamese War. You and they rolled over -- we didn't. Like the commercial says, "this one's for you."
Take your American-flag decals off your bumpers and license plates. Take the flag off your houses -- this is the age of NAFTA, and of "North American" consciousness. The Council on Foreign Relations has told Congress to get with it: you do your part, too, please.
Time for you "patriots" to grow up and join the 21st century.
And while you're at it -- take your state flags off your homepages, too. They just look foolish there, advertising a doubtful "allegiance" to an entity you barely recognize anymore -- and wouldn't notice at all, if it weren't for the occasional inconvenience. Hardly one in 15 of your fellow state "citizens" can even tell you what your state flag looks like. You barely even believe in states and state government -- who are you fooling? It's actually a little embarrassing seeing those little flags up there, as if they actually meant something.
This is the age of globe-girdling economic octopi, the proud children of your Yankee Gilded Age -- and now of NAFTA, when Oceania is becoming. Big Brother's coming, and it's time to put away the last of your childhood attachments. Time to welcome the coming of INGSOC, and grow up. We're all little people now, thanks to your exertions.
Welcome to the new century, the Century of World Empire. And thanks, guys, for all the support.
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PITY that he/she is THAT UNeducated & blinded by the lunatic, PC, REVISIONIST LEFT!
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