Confederate flag always accompanied attacks on my family (LTTE)
COLUMBIA, SC
I am a 60-year-old African-American woman, which makes me a member of what I call the last Jim Crow generation. I have seen some of the very worst of times in Southern race relations. As a 7-year-old, I was in the car with my father, a civil rights leader, when he was shot after a court hearing just because he was trying to obtain the right to vote. For the next four years, the threatening phone calls, the cross burnings and the intimidation were so great that every night Id pray the same prayer: Lord if this is the night that they come to kill me, please take me into your kingdom.
Because of the circles in which my father moved, I was exposed to much ugliness, to too many people who thought and behaved like Dylann Roof and who had one thing in common: It seemed to me that every horrific thing that was done, every beating, every lynching, every disrespectful thing was accompanied by the Confederate flag.
We, the generation traumatized by the flag, are not dead. When we see our state legislators defend its presence, it connects with a place of pain that one would have thought long buried, and it creates fear that our past will become our childrens and our grandchildrens future. What does it say about our legislators humanity if they can know the truth and still be proud of the flags history, and even more, what does it say about what they think of my humanity?
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article26765404.html
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)pro flag opinions of a few
This twisted one was in the same edition :
http://www.thestate.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article26766124.html
struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)is indeed touching.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)He can "say" the confederate flag represents anything he wants but that does Not take away the negative association. I'm sure there are Nazis who think the swastika represents heritage, soldiers who fought valiantly, the sacrifice of the Jews etc. But most people know what both hate symbols are all about.
To be so insensitive to its true meaning is to be blind to humanity.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Although I will add some posts on DU have been insensitive to bizarre on the subject imo
So it is everywhere and there is a definite divide . Some will never get the negative message. Because it is not about them so they can not relate well but this LTTE is going off the edge!
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)struggle4progress
(118,294 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)Hopefully the kind of people who enjoy abusing other humans are a dying breed.