Flag Daze 4
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Virginia Division, sued the city after its passage of the ordinance in 2011. U.S. District Judge Samuel Wilson dismissed the lawsuit in June 2012, calling the city’s ban “eminently reasonable” because it banned all non-government flag displays, not just the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
You know my opinion of the Stars and Bars, the cause it represents, and those who would honor it.
Just in case you don’t, it is the flag of slavery, oppression, and Jim Crow. Any other attempted explanation is sophistry and delusion.
This was a good decision. The city of Lexington should not have to participate in promulgating the propaganda of sophistry and delusion.
(Bonus: Follow the link and read the comments–and those are the ones that were passed by the mods.)
July 7, 2013 at 11:34 am
What an embarrassing photo. Those comments …. hoo-boy, wait until some big right wing site links to it. Then everyone will get their jollies talking about commies and the war of Northern Aggression and the South being a rich nation.
July 7, 2013 at 4:20 pm
I haven’t been back there since I left my own comment. I’ll have to work up the nerve to take a look.
The hate does get tiresome.
July 7, 2013 at 4:42 pm
I stole it so you don’t have to.
July 7, 2013 at 10:44 pm
[chuckle] I’ll have to go revisit their comments.
The Roanoke Times is actually a sane paper. It’s a sister paper to the Virginian Pilot, which was the only major paper in Virginia to oppose Massive Resistance during the Civil Rights era. It just happens to be located in a particularly benighted area of the state, that is, anywhere south of Dale City and west of Williamsburg.
Frankly (I do everything frankly), I congratulate them for moderating their comments. More newspapers should do so.