And this promotes Confederate heritage?

Trees aren’t America’s only renewable resource. Idiots are right up there as well, and the purchase of this type of good is one indicator of that reality.

Before I began teaching I worked for a social service organization. One day a client came in wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt. I could not resist asking him why he wore it. The man replied that he was a rebel.

I asked further what he meant by that and he defined it as a man who took no guff, stood on his own two feet and did not need any government interference in his life. This while applying for welfare, Food Stamps and Medicaid.

He has plenty of company. Yep, like I said, it isn’t just the trees………

I participated at a weekend reenactment (in the author’s book signing section) a few years ago in which many Confederate re-eneactors were sharing the same hotel as me. Many of them brought these exact signs (the CSA Blvd ones) and stuck them in the windows of their hotel room. When a few guests complained, the hotel kindly asked them to take the signs down out of the windows. They all screamed reverse-racism and threw a fit. In protest, they proceeded to park all of their vehicles facing out from the hotel building toward the street w/ the signs on the windshield. The logic was that the hotel could not tell them what to put on their own cars. That was their way of defending “Confederate Heritage.” I was actually embarrassed for them.

Shelby Foote once informed a professional reporter known to me (and some of you) that the Confederate battle flag should be gently folded, placed in a lock trunk, and never again be displayed, except in memory.

I buy that… And those who cravenly use this honored flag as a symbol of hatred should be exposed for the racist, redneck bigots they are..

Brian,
I don’t have any known ancestors that fought in the Civil War but I understand your feelings. I was born and brought up in New England but now live in TN. I see right ways and wrong ways of displaying both flags. I’ve seen both the American Flag and the Confederate Battle Flag flying side by side. The stuff shown here is wrong, just plain ole wrong. Besides, the southern states don’t hold the patent on Rednecks, I’ve seen plenty of Yankee Rednecks, too. People at work have even commented about it when they’ve seen things in the news.

Lookup the origins of the term “redneck” though. It was meant as something good. It meant hard-working people in 1800s and in the 1930s it refered to a a group of unionized mine workers trying to force mine owners to let their workers join the union. It’s only been a deragatory term since the later half of the 1900s.

Please don’t misunderstand. This whole redneck, flag BS isn’t just a southern thing. Idiots who abuse history for whatever reason are everywhere.

Like I said above, another renewable resource. It is as easy to find them in my native Pennsylvania as in the deep south, northwest or wherever.

Regards,
Dennis