Pride and prejudice? The Americans who fly the Confederate flag

[irisblue]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/pride-and-prejudice-the-americans-who-fly-the-confederate-flag.
Crosspost from Af Am group
Long article, there is a lot to talk & think about in it. Way too much to quote from.

About a store that sell Confederate stuff...
snip..."Petite Roslyn Stuart is behind the counter with a swagger like she has seen it all more than once. She immediately brings up Roof.Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag,” she says. “… The flag not gone change the hate.”

Stuart blames detractors. “It’s not us that’s racial; it’s them that’s racial. Most of ’em don’t know what it means,” she says. “It’s a symbol of our state; it’s who we are.”

She continues: “Northern people were down here trying to burn all our stuff” – true; the Yankees torched Jackson three times – “and we were trying to stop them … They didn’t think it was right we had slaves. It turned into one big heckuva mess. It’s lingering still out there.”

snip..."...Schools are not teaching history the right way,” he says. “… It’s not whites that are the racists; it’s mostly the blacks … What it boils down to is black people are just trying to overrule us.”

“If we can’t get white people to stand together, it’s going to be another civil war,” he adds."

[Hoyt]

1. Roslyn Stuart, and those like her, are ignorant white wing racists -- a big chunk of trump's base.

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[Sneederbunk]

2. Rebels fired on Old Glory for 4 years. Not exactly patriotic.

[struggle4progress]

3. If Roslyn remembers when "we had slaves" then either she's a loon or she's 160 some years old or

she was been hanging out with folks who practiced slavery long after it become illegal

Let's just say "Crazy Old Crook" for brevity