'Critical Conversations' discusses Confederate flag (OK)
Posted: Thursday, November 19, 2015 9:45 pm
Updated: 10:24 am, Fri Nov 20, 2015.
Jordan Bishop
... Shaila Mehra, an OSU English professor, was the first to speak and said she thought the flag was neither a symbol of heritage or hate, but rather one of white supremacy. Mehra defined white supremacy as “a deal” between elite and poor whites designed to keep African American people on the bottom of society ...
Megan Burke, an OSU philosophy professor, ... added that ... “When we call the Confederate flag heritage, we are not interested in oppressing white supremacy” ...
Vincent Burke, an OSU political science professor originally from Arkansas, spoke of the flag from a Southerner’s standpoint. Burke said after studying the causes of the Civil War, he doesn’t believe the flag was a symbol of heritage or hate.
“I don’t view it as heritage or hate,” Vincent said. “It is a heritage of hate” ...
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