This kind of crap right here is why you don't give in no matter what you get called.
This started with trying to soothe over bad feelings. And what happened? An immediate rush to obliterate that part of American history. (Btw - given how many people deny the Holocaust from 70 years ago, GOOD LUCK ever convincing the generation a hundred years from now that the war was about slavery. I mean, if you eradicate everything about it there are folks who will deny any war even took place. For Pete's sake, there are Argentinians who DENY the Falkland Islands War ever happened and that was in 1982).
They demand A and before you can even finish folding A, they demand B.
Which is why you don't give them A without a federal court telling you that you must. I have no attachment whatsoever to the Confederate flag at all. But the problem is that this kind of rush to eradicate is exactly why I voted in favor of Mississippi keeping the flag (that and the devious way Governor Musgrove went about it, which was even more offensive to my intelligence).
Btw, anyone noticing a problem here?
I'm told the Rebel flag needs to go because NO MATTER WHAT IT MEANS NOW to anyone, its ORIGINAL MEANING AND INTENT is racism.
I'm also told that the name Redskins has to go because NO MATTER WHAT THE ORIGINAL MEANING OR INTENT WAS (to save money and avoid confusion with the Braves), it is NOW offensive (determined arbitrarily by.....).
In other words, versatility isn't limited to advocates for such things.
My one regret? I honestly wish I knew how to make a flag cheaply. Because once Amazon and Wal-Mart jumped out of the frying pan and caused a ruckus, I know my Southerners well enough to know I could be an overnight millionaire by selling them at $150 a pop. It's simple human nature - tell folks they can't do something and watch what happens.