I foolishly wore the Confederate flag on an Ole Miss shirt
Tuesday 27 October 2015 11.15 EDT
Dave Bry
When I was a younger, stupider person .. I used to wear a University of Mississippi T-shirt one with a Confederate flag on it, because the Mississippi state flag has it, too ... So while I was happy to hear .. that Ole Miss was removing the Mississippi state flag from its Oxford campus .. the news resonated with me personally in a way I wish it did not ... The first time my father noticed it, he challenged me. An old hippie .. he used to play Oxford Town for me the song Bob Dylan wrote in 1962 ... I told him that I didnt see the flag as representing racism, but as a symbol of the American South and its heritage ... That, of course, is crap, as lots of smart people have pointed out since ...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/27/i-foolishly-wore-the-confederate-flag-on-an-ole-miss-shirt-as-a-youth