Letter to the Editor: Waving the Confederate Flag
This piece I recently wrote got published in both the Salem Evening News and the Daily Item.
Confederate Flag at 58 Bridge Street Salem Mass |
"To whomever at 58 Bridge St., Salem, proudly displays a Confederate flag in your first-floor window, I appreciate the U.S.’s right to freedom of expression that allows you to do so.
Though it’s unclear what you are expressing.
Are you are celebrating the Confederacy’s repression of freedom of expression for millions of U.S. citizens? Are you lamenting the lost art of slavery?
Are you demonstrating your faith toward people who killed U.S. soldiers to keep U.S. citizens enslaved?
Perhaps, you are embracing history (the history of people who wanted to keep humans enslaved for profit)? Might you be showing solidarity with Dylann Roof?
Or are you truly dismayed that TV Land has stopped airing the “Dukes of Hazzard”? It’s simply unclear."
To read the rest, check out the full piece at the Salem Evening News and the Daily Item.
Though it’s unclear what you are expressing.
Are you are celebrating the Confederacy’s repression of freedom of expression for millions of U.S. citizens? Are you lamenting the lost art of slavery?
Are you demonstrating your faith toward people who killed U.S. soldiers to keep U.S. citizens enslaved?
Perhaps, you are embracing history (the history of people who wanted to keep humans enslaved for profit)? Might you be showing solidarity with Dylann Roof?
Or are you truly dismayed that TV Land has stopped airing the “Dukes of Hazzard”? It’s simply unclear."
To read the rest, check out the full piece at the Salem Evening News and the Daily Item.
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