{"id":14075,"date":"2016-04-13T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:59:39","slug":"confederate-flag-debate-swirls-on-and-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14075","title":{"rendered":"Confederate flag debate swirls on and on and on …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m pretty sure that for as long as the Confederate flag flies over official government property that the debate over its meaning will stay front and center on the national stage.<\/p>\n

A Mississippi judge has ruled that the state flag — which includes the Confederate emblem — is “un-American.” The reason, said Judge Carlton Reeves, is simple: It represents an effort to break away from the United States of America.<\/p>\n

I happen to agree with him. <\/a>The judge, though, stopped short of ordering the Confederate symbol to be removed from the Mississippi state flag.<\/p>\n

Reeves’ opinion came after he heard arguments from an African-American plaintiff who argued that the symbol violates his “dignity.” Carlos Moore, a lawyer, said the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage protected citizens’ fundamental rights of dignity.<\/p>\n

Reeves, who also is African-American, didn’t issue a definitive ruling on the flag, but said that the symbol of the Confederacy is inherently un-American.<\/p>\n

An assistant state attorney general argued that\u00a0the decision to remove the symbol ought to come from the state legislature, as it is a political issue. Perhaps it is.<\/p>\n

I totally understand the anger that the symbol gins up in the minds of Americans. For me, the symbol suggests treason.<\/p>\n

The Confederacy came into being by those who wanted to remove themselves from the United States of America. They wanted to create a separate nation. The Confederate States of America then went to war with the U.S. of A., seeking to defeat the United States on the battlefield and then form a sovereign nation that would sanction, among other things, the enslavement of human beings.<\/p>\n

Can there be anything more un-American than that?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned. This debate is going to fire itself up … all over again.<\/p>\n\n

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I’m pretty sure that for as long as the Confederate flag flies over official government property that the debate over its meaning will stay front and center on the national stage. A Mississippi judge has ruled that the state flag — which includes the Confederate emblem — is “un-American.” The reason, said Judge Carlton Reeves, … Continue reading Confederate flag debate swirls on and on and on …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1014,1104,6131,4286,5053],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-war","tag-confederacy","tag-mississippi-state-flag","tag-slavery","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14078,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}