Confederate flags have no place over national cemeteries
The Times Editorial Board
May 30
... no single flag represented the Confederacy ... But .. the “Southern cross” ... picked up fresh currency in the 1950s among opponents of the civil rights movement. Today, it remains a potent symbol of white supremacy, racial intolerance and oppression ...
There’s a reasonable argument to be made that historical leaders should be measured against the norms of their times, and not retroactively condemned by a later standard they couldn’t imagine. But kidnapping, buying and selling human beings as chattel – and beating, raping and murdering them along the way – are moral transgressions no matter the era ...
The Confederate soldiers .. opted .. to fight against the United States. White Southerners may see the flag as a symbol of Southern heritage, but for African Americans and others it is a fluttering reminder of one of the lowest moments in this country's history.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-confederate-graves-20160530-snap-story.html
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