Stars and Bars Comes Down
The simple explanation for this is change in location of the Confederate Battle Flag is simply change.
This is no longer a country that will abide slavery, even though there is still a warm fuzzy feeling for aspects of the good old days that we each define ourselves. Donald Trump can say whatever he wants about Mexicans and roil the waters. Jeb Bush's wife is from Mexico. President Obama is the result of a union of an African and an Anglo from Kansas. And the Supreme Court has ruled marriage equality is the law of the land, and oh by the way South Carolina has African American, Republican Senator and an Indian American Female governor and even the grandson of Strom Thurmond is having some second thoughts about his past after the latest hate crime.
The fantasies that folks entertain will continue in spite of both a macro and micro reality. It will be interesting to see when and where the breaking point will be on the behavior of Donald Trump, Daniel Snyder, and others of similar ilke. Businesses are in the process of disassociating themselves from overtly unpopular people and ideas.
The ceremony had to potential to be one of the greatest mashups of all time. A highway patrol honor guard, backed up by, some Confederate reenactors, with a choir picked from "We Are the World" singing na, na, na, na, hey, hey, good bye.
This is no longer a country that will abide slavery, even though there is still a warm fuzzy feeling for aspects of the good old days that we each define ourselves. Donald Trump can say whatever he wants about Mexicans and roil the waters. Jeb Bush's wife is from Mexico. President Obama is the result of a union of an African and an Anglo from Kansas. And the Supreme Court has ruled marriage equality is the law of the land, and oh by the way South Carolina has African American, Republican Senator and an Indian American Female governor and even the grandson of Strom Thurmond is having some second thoughts about his past after the latest hate crime.
The fantasies that folks entertain will continue in spite of both a macro and micro reality. It will be interesting to see when and where the breaking point will be on the behavior of Donald Trump, Daniel Snyder, and others of similar ilke. Businesses are in the process of disassociating themselves from overtly unpopular people and ideas.
The ceremony had to potential to be one of the greatest mashups of all time. A highway patrol honor guard, backed up by, some Confederate reenactors, with a choir picked from "We Are the World" singing na, na, na, na, hey, hey, good bye.
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