I've been meaning to get around to this for quite some time. The lovely Jessica took me to task for the little St. Andrews Cross symbol for the Georgia Blogring that I have on the left hand column of this blog. Now please don't go and flame her like a lot of folks did when she originally wrote the piece. She brings up some very valid points and that has sumpin' to do with why I have it there.
Reason number one is that it is the symbol that Dizzy Girl chose when she formed the ring.
Reason number two is stated in the description of my blog: Pushing the boundaries of bad taste and political incorrectness.
Reason number three is my total antipathy for the entire Confederate flag bullshit that is currently going on throughout the South. I have stated before, and I will state again, that I thought the Georgia flag was a non-issue from the start. I am fully aware that it was adopted in 1956 by the Dimocrat Party (not the "racist" Republicans) to thumb their noses at integration. As an aside, the person in South Carolina who started flying the Confederate flag over the State House was Governor Ernest Hollings, another Dimocrat.
I think that there are some people who actually think the 1956 flag was a nod to southern heritage (whatever that may be) and they are sincere in their beliefs. They are not necessarily racists and do not want to bring back slavery. A friend of mine's mother was in the Daughters of the Confederacy. This was a group of harmless old women. They did not want to bring back " old times there were not forgotten, whoppin' slaves and picking cotton" (Tom Lehrer) but were a social club. However, the most vehement flag supporters strike me as ignorant goobers. The flag issue should have never been the priority that it was. That takes care of the pro-flag folks whom Neal Boortz calls flaggots.
By the way, the Civil War was not fought entirely over slavery. Lincoln said that if he could keep slavery and save the Union he would. The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until September of 1862 and did not take effect until January 1, 1863. Slavery was just one issue. Another was economic. The North was burdening the South with high cotton tariffs.
The black "leaders" who are so offended by the flag, should be more offended by the state of inner city schools. They should be worried about drugs and the high rate of illegitimacy. They should be worried about the lost youth growing up without fathers because they are dead, in prison, or simply don't want to take responsibility for the children they have fathered. When all that shit is fixed, then they should worry about the flag. The St. Andrews Cross symbol represents my disgust at the NAACP and other organizations spending resources on a symbol rather than doing the tough job of actually working towards, as their name states, "the Advancement of Colored People" . Maybe they oughta change their name to the NACBRDNTACBA (National Association for Calling Bush a Racist and Doing Nothing to Advance the Cause of Blacks in America). So yeah. I keep that symbol on my site to piss people off.
Did Sonny Perdue want to change back to the 1956 flag? Some people think so. Actually, he wanted to give Georgians a say rather than the back room deal that Roy Barnes made. Did that help him get elected? Yep! It did. He saw an issue and he took it. It is no more craven than some of the invective the Dimocrats use to get elected. e.g. Bush is Hitler.
Anyway, I have my own flag design that one of my readers sent me.
Fuck the flag! Fix the schools!
I got the flag from Easycure.
Posted by denny at January 14, 2004 09:15 PM