General Beauregard's Takes Down Its Rebel Flags, but Athens' Confederate Monument Remains (GA)
August 12, 2015
By Matthew Pulver
... But what would happen to Athens’ most prominent Confederate flag, the one flying at the bar General Beauregard’s in the heart of downtown? Would new students, their families and campus visitors be welcomed to Athens in the fall with our massive Confederate monument on Broad Street, a bar named after Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and, most egregious, a bar flying the Confederate symbol out onto Clayton Street and named after the general who started the Civil War?
I went to General Beauregard’s to talk to bar staff and patrons about the maligned symbol flying out front ...
It was gone. And not only was the outside flag gone, but so, too, were the flags that used to adorn the inside. Behind the bar used to hang the Confederate battle flag and the first official flag of the Confederate government; another flag or two could be found on the back wall. All gone. It used to be that you couldn’t swing a dead Confederate inside the place and not hit a symbol of the slave state, and now it’s like a Where’s Rebel Waldo ...
She had clearly been considering the matter and was reconciled with it, “if it’s what needs to happen as people evolve.” She continued, “If the Confederate flag offends certain people—it doesn’t offend me—but if it offends certain people, then I need to evolve in my thought. The whole world needs to evolve in their thought, and that’s how you move along in society” ...
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