{"id":43268,"date":"2020-06-21T21:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43268"},"modified":"2020-06-21T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:31:47","slug":"kkk-confederate-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43268","title":{"rendered":"KKK = Confederate flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I cannot let this photo stand without offering a brief comment about the juxtaposition of two key elements this picture contains.<\/p>\n

Look at the fellow gesturing. He is a Ku Klux Klansman demonstrating in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., the site of that terrible riot that killed a young woman protesting against the Klan, neo-Nazis and assorted white supremacists.<\/p>\n

Now, look at the flags flying behind him. Do you see a familiar pattern? It’s the Confederate<\/em> flag, the piece of cloth that some Americans want to keep displaying in public places because it “symbolizes heritage” and is a “piece of American history.”<\/p>\n

It seems to be lost on those pro-Rebel flag folks that the KKK stands with that flag because of what it represents: the maintaining of slavery in states that seceded from the Union in 1861 and launched the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. Then again, maybe it isn’t lost on them at all!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Confederate flag represents the very thing that the moron seen in this picture snapped by the New York Post represents.<\/p>\n

It represents oppression, which my reading of history tells me caused our founders to create this nation in the first place, to live in a place free of the kind of oppression symbolized by the Confederate flag.<\/p>\n

Spare me, then, the clap-trap about “history” and “heritage.”<\/p>\n\n

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I cannot let this photo stand without offering a brief comment about the juxtaposition of two key elements this picture contains. Look at the fellow gesturing. He is a Ku Klux Klansman demonstrating in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va., the site of that terrible riot that killed a young woman protesting against the Klan, neo-Nazis and … Continue reading KKK = Confederate flag<\/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":[1008,1014,1106,2214,4286],"class_list":["post-43268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-civil-war","tag-confederate-flag","tag-human-rights","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268","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=43268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43270,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions\/43270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}