I subscribe to the roundtable, so saw the “early release” (so, that is also my soft sales pitch to join the roundtable) I have been waiting for this to be published on the site so I can share far and wide. It is succinct, on point, and exactly what a single panel is meant to be. Very powerful Keith, it sits among your best work.
Astounding, meaningful, powerful. A quietly destructive counterpoint to the half-wits exhorting us to see the “history and heritage” of the Confederate flag. Yes – a history and heritage of racism, segregation, discrimination, oppression.
Speaking of history and heritage, I know I’ve mentioned this in the past, but there’s an old oak tree in Brooksville, Florida. It has a history and heritage sign in front of it, that explains that this is the traditional tree that was used to lynch people. I bet there were a few Confederate flags in evidence on those occasions. A proud history, indeed…
And this has always bothered me – the Confederate flag was the “national flag” of an illegally formed bloc of states, whose purpose was to illegally (per constitutional law) dismantle the Union. How is it possible for this flag to fly with official sanction on public land and buildings?
It was probably a sop to the ‘states rights’ factions, so that they’ll think they didn’t really lose the Civil War. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was decided to make it illegal to fly it on National property, but it was legal to display it on a state’s land and buildings (like court houses, schools, chambers of commerce, notary publics, vehicle licensing places, etc.). And according to them, God approved, too. I suppose this has been a pretty rough year for God, with all these court rulings overturning His Will. No wonder the climate’s changing!
I subscribe to the roundtable, so saw the “early release” (so, that is also my soft sales pitch to join the roundtable) I have been waiting for this to be published on the site so I can share far and wide. It is succinct, on point, and exactly what a single panel is meant to be. Very powerful Keith, it sits among your best work.
Astounding, meaningful, powerful. A quietly destructive counterpoint to the half-wits exhorting us to see the “history and heritage” of the Confederate flag. Yes – a history and heritage of racism, segregation, discrimination, oppression.
Speaking of history and heritage, I know I’ve mentioned this in the past, but there’s an old oak tree in Brooksville, Florida. It has a history and heritage sign in front of it, that explains that this is the traditional tree that was used to lynch people. I bet there were a few Confederate flags in evidence on those occasions. A proud history, indeed…
And this has always bothered me – the Confederate flag was the “national flag” of an illegally formed bloc of states, whose purpose was to illegally (per constitutional law) dismantle the Union. How is it possible for this flag to fly with official sanction on public land and buildings?
It was probably a sop to the ‘states rights’ factions, so that they’ll think they didn’t really lose the Civil War. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was decided to make it illegal to fly it on National property, but it was legal to display it on a state’s land and buildings (like court houses, schools, chambers of commerce, notary publics, vehicle licensing places, etc.). And according to them, God approved, too. I suppose this has been a pretty rough year for God, with all these court rulings overturning His Will. No wonder the climate’s changing!
On second glance I finally got the Star Wars reference