National Cathedral Taking Confederate Flag Out Of Stained Glass Windows
BY RACHEL KURZIUS
JUN 8, 2016 4:25 PM
By the end of the summer .. the Washington National Cathedral will remove the Confederate battle flag from its stained glass memorial to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
That's just the first step in a larger consideration of the future of the windows, which were installed in 1953 "in a move that could help obliterate the Mason Dixon line," as a press release said at the time. Over the next two years, the cathedral is planning programming to discuss "issues of race and the legacy of slavery that the windows represent," according to the National Cathedral.
"It would be easy to simply remove these symbols and go on with business as usual," says Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, the cathedral's canon theologian and a professor at Goucher. "We take down offending symbols all the time but never do anything about the culture that gave birth to them" ...
http://dcist.com/2016/06/national_cathedral_taking_confedera.php
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Not removed from the NATIONAL Cathedral until after South Carolina, home of Fort Sumpter, thinks about doing away with confederate flags and reverence for the antebellum South?
I do love this though: "We take down offending symbols all the time but never do anything about the culture that gave birth to them" ...
I do think taking down offending symbols does impact the culture that gave birth to them, though
If the Confederate flag, a symbol of extending slavery to the territories, has a place of honor in your state or church or whatever, please do not expect all citizens to hate slavery and racism. At best, it's one hell of a mixed message. At worst, its inciting all kinds of shet no one and no government should incite.
Anyway, we need all of it. Get rid of the bad stuff, institute good stuff and punish people who do bad things. At a minimum, do not glorify or excuse bad stuff or people who do bad things.
