A guy, his truck and the Confederate flag

[struggle4progress]

By Ben Duell Fraser, Free Press guest writer
12:06 a.m. EDT September 2, 2015

... I was at Macomb Community College for an event. While scanning the sea of parking, looking for an empty spot, it hit me like a ton of bricks. There was a pickup truck with Confederate and American flags strapped to each side of the truck bed, and the sort of bumper stickers (Guns Yea! Obama Boo!) you might expect ...

... I walked up to him, camera phone in hand, and asked if I could interview him ...

Five minutes after first speaking to Matt, I no longer thought he was racist, at least not in the classic sense. I think he’s misinformed and young ...

http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/09/01/conversation-guy-flies-confederate-flag-truck/71483782/

[Hoyt]

1. I can't watch much of that video. That yahoo reminds me of many I grew up with. He's ignorant

and a racist. Plus, I really can't handle some yahoo "college student" spitting on camera with a mouth full of tobacco spewing racist BS.

[left-of-center2012]

2. "He's from Kntucky & it's about southern pride"

"Kentucky was officially neutral at the beginning of the war,
but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy,
the legislature petitioned the Union for assistance, and thereafter became solidly under Union control."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War