Should fleur de lis meet confederate flag’s fate?

[TexasTowelie]

NEW ORLEANS – The fleur de lis is a symbol that is deeply ingrained in Louisiana’s history. Seen in architecture, the state flag and on the helmets of the Saints, it’s everywhere.

But although it is now seen as the mark of our great state, it was once used to mark slaves.

“Code noir — those words are French and mean ‘black code,’” said slave historian Ibrahima Seck.

The black code was a set of regulations adopted in Louisiana in 1724 from other French colonies around the world, meant to govern the state’s slave population. Seck said those rules included branding slaves with the fleur de lis as punishment for running away.

Read more: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2015/07/19/fleur-de-lis-meet-confederate-flags-fate/30400385/

Cross-posted in the Louisiana Group.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. That would be difficult

http://gonola.com/2013/08/06/iconic-new-orleans-architecture-french-quarter-cast-iron.html

Would we then have to boycott France and all of the rest of the former French Colonies?

The Fleur De Lis is a medieval symbol of the French Monarchy and has symbolism for Gnostics. I.E. It predates the colonization of the Caribbean as well as North, Central, and South America.

I think in light of Sandra Bland's death - and in the modern era it is not being used to justify the murder of people based upon the color of their skin - I would have a hard time supporting this.