Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and surmise that recent events have
not caught up with her thinking. In fact, she may be a classic example of
the kind of pervasive racist attitude that permeates white culture in this
country. Not that she wants to harm African-Americans. She may or may not
know any. The racism exists in the inability or unwillingness to even
consider what that symbol means to Americans of African descent, a stubborn
insistence that it's a "redneck" thing or a "southern" thing or a
"heritage" thing. (Never mind that many a good man of Indiana fell on
battlefields of the War of the Rebellion, wearing _blue_, not gray.)
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Chris Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don¹t see Confederate flags often in Fort Wayne. Yesterday, however, I
> found TWO, right across the street from each other.
>
> I was on my way to photograph something else in the neighborhood, when I
> spotted this flag behind a house:
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2180
>
> I spent an hour or so talking to the woman who owns the house and her
> boyfriend. She told me that if I was interested in the Confederate flag, I
> should go into the bar across the street, the Hitch-In-Post Tavern. She
> walked over with me and introduced me to the manager, and I photographed
> their flag.
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2181
>
> Interestingly, neither was a plain Confederate flag; both had things
> written
> on them!
>
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