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Flag Daze 0
In Delaware, where I used to live, there is a NASCAR race track. If you ever drove by a NASCAR track on race day, you likely saw more Confederate battle ensigns than were at Gettysburg.
My brother told me–this was probably 15 years ago at time when NASCAR was trying to broaden its audience and especially attempting to attract more minorities–that my nephew had asked (I don’t remember his exact words), “How are do they expect to do that with all those Confederate flags in the parking lots?”
I guess that push has come to shove.
NASCAR has banned Confederate flags.
H/T to my brother for giving me a heads-up on this story.
Monumental Reasoning 0
The Roanoke Times’s editorial board channels Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. A snippet (emphasis added):
For some Virginians, this is a disorienting moment, to the say the least. State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield County, and a candidate for governor next year, took to Facebook to say: “Let’s be honest, there is an overt effort here to erase all white history.” This would be laughable if she didn’t mean it so seriously.
Taking down a statue is not “erasing” history. It’s re-appraising whether we’re honoring the right people from our history.
Stray Question 0
Really now, just who are the “sheeple” in this scenario?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch wonders why right-wingers are waging war against the New York Times’s 1619 project.
Afterthought:
Me, I’m torn. I can’t decide between whether they (the right-wingers) can’t handle the truth or they don’t want anyone else to handle the truth. Or maybe it’s some of both all mixed up together in a steaming pot of denial.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
An invasive forest of Nathan Bedford Saplings runs amok.
The Bush that Is Beaten Around 0
When someone argues that Confederate Monuments symbolize history, ask him or her to clarify what precisely is the history that they symbolize.
The Law’s Delay 0
Nancy LeTorneau reports on the years of efforts to pass a federal anti-lynching law that preceded the recent successful passage of such legislation (which, as of this writing, has not yet been signed).
A Misdirection Play . . . 0
. . . of monumental proportions.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Kansas City Star, in a lengthy investigative article, reports that the persons who put Charlottesville, Virginia, in the news for something other than basketball and frat parties, have decided that they need to “rebrand” to try to capture the youth market.
Full Disclosure:
I did a year of grad work at C’ville, during which I learned I was not cut out to be an academician.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump administration moves to roll back the clock on housing discrimination.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At The Roanoke Times, Betsy Biesenbach pens an eloquent rebuke to those who profess that flying the Stars and Bars is “about heritage, not hate”; she notes that symbols cannot be detached from what they symbolize.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Kyle Whitfield looks at an Alabama candidate’s recent campaign ad and concludes that some things never change.
Shea’s Rebellion 0
Strange doings in the State of Washington harkening back to Ammon Bundy’s occupation of a national wildlife refuge three years ago. Here’s just a bit from the story; follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Rude One dismembers Nikki Haley’s defense of the Stars and Bars. (Warning: Language, all of it warranted.)