Anniston says no about Confederate flags -- and means it (AL)

Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:33 pm
By Phillip Tutor

... on the first day of Confederate History and Heritage Month in Alabama, Frank Leatherwood took a handful of Rebel battle flags to Quintard Avenue and placed them around the John Pelham memorial ...

Before the day ended, the standards had been removed to the Anniston Police Department ... Leatherwood had learned that City Hall planned to enforce Anniston’s new right of way signage ordinance ...

... the city has spared no one. Relay for Life ribbons were tied around Quintard’s trees. Oooops. Relay organizers had to take them down. Car dealerships placed signs in rights of way in advance of this week’s car show at McClellan. Oooops. Dealers had to move them ...

A century and a half later, failure taints the defeated Confederacy’s legacy: it couldn’t protect the South’s way of life, its main foray into the North failed famously at Gettysburg and, ultimately, it lost the war itself. Likewise, the SCV will lose this argument with Anniston. A modern-day lost cause ...

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/phillip-tutor-anniston-says-no-about-confederate-flags-and-means/article_68ad098a-0811-11e6-8e54-27fd47eac49c.html?mode=story