The Con Flag

[Jim Devine]

Barkley wrote:
>I have noticed a recent odd shift regarding
>the use and abuse of the Confederate battle flag.  Prior
>to about two years ago, I almost never saw it flying over
>the local Confederate graves, except on Confederate
>Memorial Day (April 26).  However I always saw if flying
>over a small cemetary in Madison, Wisconsin for
>Confederate POWs.  Today, it is always flying over the
>former, in fact usually several of its versions.  It no longer
>flies over that cemetary in Madison.
>      Are we in for Civil War redux?

fortunately or unfortunately, it's a standard backlash. The totally 
justifiable attack on the public display of the racist flag encouraged the 
closet KKK-types to come out ...

Gee, why do you know when Confederate Memorial Day is? Is it because it's a 
Big Day in Virginia?

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine