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The Storm About Dixie

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Off my front porch facing west this evening.  Light rain.   I fly this flag until July 3 .  I take it down July 4, as already discussed in this blog .  This does not make me a racist.  I defy anyone to find evidence of racism in the relatively long history of this blog. Suddenly, the academically recognized social force known in the public sphere as Southern Pride must be expunged. Really? We cannot have a genuine discourse about race while simultaneously censoring a major cultural symbol of a significant and powerful minority group (white southern males).   You idiots.  Retribution and banishment are not the traits of dialog nor do they promote true understanding. I have always flown the Confederate flag. Allowing the heinous actions of a murderous racist to dictate what a symbol actually means (even when he did not articulate anything about the symbol, he was just photographed with it) is not only surrender to the power of racism, it is allowing the meaning of the symbol to be di