The South’s Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag - Patterson Hood (DBT)

[Esau.]

Excellent New York Times piece from Patterson Hood of Drive By Truckers about the south and the confederate flag.

 

 

 

It’s high time that a symbol so divisive be removed. The flags coming down symbolize the extent to which those who cry “heritage, not hate” have already lost their argument. Why would we want to fly a symbol that has been used by the K.K.K. and terrorists like Dylann Roof? Why would a people steeped in the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible want to rally around a flag that so many associate with hatred and violence? Why fly a flag that stands for the very things we as Southerners have worked so hard to move beyond?

 

If we want to truly honor our Southern forefathers, we should do it by moving on from the symbols and prejudices of their time and building on the diversity, the art and the literary traditions we've inherited from them. It’s time to study and learn about who we are and where we came from while finding a way forward without the baggage of our ancestors’ fears and superstitions. It’s time to quit rallying around a flag that divides. And it is time for the South to — dare I say it? — rise up and show our nation what a beautiful place our region is, and what more it could become.

 

Read full :http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/magazine/the-souths-heritage-is-so-much-more-than-a-flag.html?

[phorbesie]

thanks for posting this.

[phorbesie]

speaking of...

 

a friend of a friend uploaded this show recently, if you feel like listening to an old one. it's fun.

 

https://archive.org/details/dbt1999-11-14