UT forum speakers call for eliminating Confederate statues

Pat Hardy, a Republican Texas education board member who helped usher in the standards, says that slavery was a “side issue to the Civil War”, as stated by a transcript provided by Washington Post.

Staff photo by E.J. Thus, flying a Confederate flag reflects a continuing commitment to maintaining a symbol of white supremacy. Saying the second just proves that you believe that it’s OK to subjugate a group of people as long as some of them are involved in the subjugation.

Charleston, South Carolina: A large monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate the “Confederate Defenders of Charleston” was also tagged and later covered up with tarp.

“I don’t see that there’s a hurry here”, Webb said.

Activist voices are now gathering strength from the successful clamor to remove old flags and just beginning to denounce memorials depicting Confederate figures and even streets and buildings bearing the names of heroes of the Confederacy. At the time Southerners said the flag represented their culture. Students are not required to know another speech, by Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, who wrote in 1861 that slavery was the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy. “It’s not about hate, it’s about heritage, ‘” she said. Cook describes the tensions that emerged when Southerners wanted to “celebrate” secession and the attack on Fort Sumter, while others wanted to celebrate emancipation.

Ultimately, removal of the monuments will, quite literally, erase an unsavory – but important – part of our nation’s history.

If the Sons of Confederate Veterans are really about history, then they need to read the Cornerstone Speech and repudiate it with as much vigor as they embrace the flag. After all, we’ve been taught for decades that it’s behind us.

John Carbage, president of Hermiston’s Black global Awareness Club, can see why.

Perhaps that Southern pride is not known or appreciated by all, certainly not by the media on the hunt to magnify every mad claim of white racism, whether real, imagined or invented. As wonderful as all of these ideals are, they aren’t a solution. Is there anybody that’s naïve enough to think that if the Confederate flag is restricted, it’s gonna stop there? “You were to turn your head until it passed by”.

TAMI CHAPPELL/REUTERS A Confederate flag flies at the base of a memorial in front of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia.

In any case, my ancestors did take up guns against the Union, fought at Gettysburg, lost friends and loved ones along the way, and eventually returned home to the ruined Texas homestead where they went back to farming cotton and raising cows. “Those people were killed by a young idiot who definitely didn’t have the right idea of the Confederate flag in mind when he posed with it online”. For people who grew up in Oregon, away from a pervasive Klu Klux Klan presence, the flag has often been used as a symbol of individualism or pride in Southern roots. Several members of the campus community spoke movingly of the pain and discomfort they endure on campus on a daily basis as they pass the likenesses of men who at least partly made careers out of bigotry.

Castleton said she was “irritated” by the company’s bowing to political correctness.

That’s why the American flag is so prominent during this country’s Fourth of July celebrations. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. Faulkner’s great subject was the tragic racial history of his native South and the struggle both to accept the past’s powerful hold over us and to continue toward the future. However, the flag is in a museum, where it belongs, not displayed in public as a point of pride.