Thank you CM!
The Star-Telegram had a whole section on the flag controversy last Sunday. There were four columns in the Weekly Review-- one (Freddy would like this one) Doing Violence to Our History, by James Dark, the commander of the N. Texas Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, another by Bob Ray Sanders, a black editor and a radio host, who wrote a very good and reasonable conclusion that impressed me because he can be very outspoken:
I have an appreciation for the truth, for telling the whole history of a people or country, and not just pieces of it. that's why as long as the Confederate flags and monuments in public places are in their proper historic context, they should be left alone.
Someone told me this week that there was a Washington High School in New Orleans that changed its name because he owned slaves.
This is ridiculous, and in our attempts to be sensitive and cooperative, perhaps we'd better also be aware that there are those who will take advantage of that and push their own extremism on us until they have not only gotten what they want, but destroyed what rightfully belongs to others.
I need the Freddys to remind me these things, to prod me when I get too wishywashy or too lazy. |
