Ken Burns On ‘Face The Nation’: Confederate Flag “About Resistance To Civil Rights”

[struggle4progress]

by Ross A. Lincoln
August 23, 2015 5:00pm

... “Everybody was brought up with the idea that that flag was the flag of the Confederacy. It was not, it was one of many battle flags adopted by the Army of Northern Virginia, it got adopted after 1954, worked into state flags in the old south. And what happened in 1954 was the Brown vs The Board of Education ... And that flag coming into prominence was essentially not heritage, not about civil war heritage, but about resistance to civil rights” ...

http://deadline.com/2015/08/ken-burns-talks-slavery-charleston-shooting-on-face-the-nation-1201504008/

[blackspade]

1. Thanks Ken Burns for the reality check.

Now if battle flaggers around here will let that soak in......

[lobodons]

2. There you go again Ken Burns

Using facts and stuff.

[fasttense]

3. The bigots and racist were out in force Saturday

At flea markets and roadside sales the Southern swastika was flying high in east TN. Where I might see only one fool a month, they were all out this weekend.

Some apparently ignorant fool had the US flag and the Southern swastika flying togeather on the back of his broken down pickup. Does he NOT know the confederacy was all about traitors and haters of the United States? Flying those 2 togeather is such a contradiction that I'm surprised someone hasn't told the pickup owner. There are a few confederate fools who attended school.

Then there is the Southern swastika with a picture of Jesus in the middle of it. It was being sold right next to the one with the guy holding a rifle on it. I'm not sure who the guy with the rifle on the Southern Swastika was. Maybe he was one of those duck beard guys. But at least at our Farmers Market, where we sell our orgnic produce and pasture raised eggs and lamb, there were no swastikas.

[treestar]

4. Exactly

That's the heritage involved.