One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) recently wrote that among “good uses” for the Confederate battle flag are “diaper, shop rag, kindling, stuffing for a pillow, burping cloth,” and “toilet paper.” In the ensuing discussion – which I was not a part of – he added, “It’s a treason/slavocracy flag. Plain and simple. It’s the revisionists that have a complete lack of understanding of history.”
Fortunately, this kind of churlish and disrespectful rhetoric is not common among my brethren in the ministerium.
But it is a helpful window into how much our education system and culture have degraded. There was indeed a time when the movie
50s and 60s in response to the civil rights campaign. i think we have to be perfectly clear about that. it should be furled up. let s talk about what does the civil war mean to the south now. it means a lot of different things. i mean one of the thing this is makes the south distinct is precisely that it was the only part of the united states who was ever conquered and occupied. when i was a little boy in atlanta i was learning the words to a song called good old rebel and a line says 300,000 yankees stiff in southern dust. we got 300,000 before they conquered us. they died but i wish it was 3 million instead of what we got. charming. yeah, charming. that was a kind of attitude you grew up with in the south. and that s been changing over the years. because the south has become the sun belt. because the south is not just black and white. there s a lot of brown in the