[1]The tragic murder of nine black Christians in Charleston showed a remarkable community coming together and on the national state at lot of liberals getting down right ugly. [1]Eugene Robinson [2] is bitter that the South turned away from the democrats, and can read the Constitution, from San Jose Mercury News [3]:
One hundred fifty years too late, the Confederacy may finally be coming to an end. Finishing it off, however, will require more than getting rid of an offensive flag.
Not that the astounding progress this week toward consigning the Confederate battle flag to the ignominy it deserves is a small thing. Flags are among the most important symbols because they signify allegiance — in this case, to a treasonous rebellion that sought the unimpeded right to buy and sell human beings and brutally compel their unpaid labor.
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But the Confederacy is more than a flag, more than a region, more than Southern nostalgia based on the lie that the Civil War was about something other than slavery. The Confederacy that has endured for a century and a half after Appomattox is a state of mind that encompasses white supremacy, black subjugation, unrestricted gun rights and defiance of the legitimacy of the federal government.
While them pesty southerners cling to the guns and their Bibles, in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gun free utopia of the Peoples Republic of Chicago circa forty blacks have been gunned down just this month [4]. However in Chicago even the dead vote democrat. Not a problem.
As for myself, I have more use for the South than I do for Chicago. If you are decent human being human lives matter, all lives. To Eugene Robinson, the only thing that matters is voting for democrats.