Well, with all the hubbub about flags coming down and such, I confess that I’ve had to do a lot of rethinking over the past few days. This often happens to me when violent, wicked racists commit despicable crimes (and not just despicable crimes, but crimes committed against my own brothers and sisters in Christ, whose only fault was trusting the murderer who killed them) and doing so while wearing on their clothing symbols of countries (past and present) that imply their agreement with wicked presuppositions, Pharisaical assumptions, and unbiblical prejudices. And then when fellow Christians come out and demand that historic flags be removed and denounced because some wicked men lived and fought under those flags and some people who believed and stood for very wicked things love those flags, it gives you pause.
Makes you do a lot of rethinking.
So that’s what I’ve been doing.
And I’ve been forced to come to some very hard and painful conclusions that only now am I ready to acknowledge (and I’m sure this is going to be a shock to many of my friends given my past commitments and convictions, but I can’t help it – facts are facts after all and there’s no use running and hiding from them as if they’re not true, right?).
So I’ve been thinking.
And I’ve decided that I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a country that endorsed the genocide of a race of people that they viewed to be inferior.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a country that put images of overt, unapologetic racists on its currency and coins.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a country that endorsed African slavery and allowed it to exist up to and even past 1861.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over ships involved in the evil slave trade and over a capital whose leaders refused to take any truly effective action to stop that hateful and wicked traffic – even when they knew it was continuing after 1861!
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over cities which condoned race riots, public lynchings, false arrests and other persecution of innocent black people.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation that provoked a war that costs hundreds of thousands of lives and left hundreds of thousands without husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation whose leading general was not only a slave holder who refused to emancipate his slaves until after the war but also said that if he had thought that the war was for the purpose of abolishing slavery, he would have resigned his commission.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation whose president believed that white people were inherently superior to black people and said that he would do nothing to end slavery and had no interest in doing so.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation that not only praised racist terrorists who murdered innocent people but erected monuments in their honor.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation whose armies were allowed to rape, pillage, and kill non-combatants (black and white), pursuing a policy of “total war” with the full authorization of their President and War Department.
I can no longer support the public display of a flag that flew over a nation that kept prisoners of war in despicable, deplorable conditions and refused to give them adequate food and medical care when it was fully in their power to do so.
And, of course, I can no longer support the public display of a flag that was used in the rallies of and became identified with the KKK.
Sorry, but, as they say, “facts is facts,” and as I’ve reviewed the history of this country, I’ve had to confess that, following the logic of our new “popular front” I have been wrong in supporting the display of this flag and seeking to honor the country for which it stands.
So, I confess.
And I repent.
And now I have come to the difficult conclusion that this flag should be taken down. As much as I will miss seeing it, it is causing incredible pain to a significant portion of our citizens. It has to go.
My only question is, who is going to serve on the committee to design a new flag for the United States of America?
I hope they do a good job, cause I for one am going to miss Old Glory.
Superb. Thanks.
Thank you and Amen!
Brilliant!!
Thank you! Well done!
Absolutely excellent! It deserves a much larger audience than it will probably get. Thanks, Steve!
Wow! This is one of the bravest posts I have seen in a long, long time. Shows that one can have real loyalty to a culture without covering up all their sins. If Southern culture survives it will be because of men willing to look its evils in the face. Thanks so much!
Thanks again, Steve!
Please do a follow-up column in which you explain who and what you were talking about to those who don’t know about Grant, how Southern captives were treated in Northern prisons, etc., etc., and are ignorant of such things because they have never read anything not based on Republican propaganda or the deceitful distortions of leftist “historians.” In forwarding your great column to friends, I’ve concluded with, “Thank you “liberals”, “progressives”, Marxists,…and Republican propagandists! (Not a few of the latter, of course, are “conservatives.”)
Thanks and will be forwarding it on – hope that is ok. Skip Caissie
EXCELLENT……..
Thanks for the good ride. You had me goin’ for a minute.
Cute. You never had me gong. I knew from the first sentence what you were getting at. So why don’t you leave.
Of course….cause if you meant the CONFEDERATE flag you would’nt be able to have your southern pride Confederate glory balls and conferences–all with some kind of quasi religious reasoning. And yes, Ive been to one. You and Doug Wilson ….. it’s no wonder….
I Relish in Your Comments ! You are dead on . Do any of you liberals or Yankees deny that the North invaded the South ? Northern Generals were criminals and under the direct order of Lincoln.. Lincoln didn[t care one bit about the slaves. matter of fact he meet with free black men and told them that he would ship them to central America or back to Africa at his expense. Lincoln was interested in anything but power and money. Lincoln is the biggest Lie that’s ever been perpetuated on the American People. He was a Bi- sexual , married Mary Todd for here land, money and power. He established the draft and if you paid him 300.00 your son would not have to go and fight. 95% of the boys that fought for the South did NOT own a slave. Lincoln wanted a Centralized Gov. Just like OBAMA ! He was a Unitarian. He used his scripture to cover his phony agenda. Sherman marched thru Georgia, stealing every thing, raping women of the south. both black and white. Killing civilians ! Came back through Columbia, S C. and burned it to the ground ! Lincoln quote ” if I could save the union with out freeing one slave, I would do so “. The South is the champagne of the United States. If Oprah was asked to go back to Africa and there would have been no salvery, do you think she would go. Hell No ! She’s to damn rich… The War of Northern Aggression !
Beautiful. Thank you.
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Steve,
Thanks again for passing along a bunch of facts that our so-called “historians” will never mention, in public school, college, or anywhere else.
Um, Luke? You seem to confuse the flag with the constitution. Either that, or you hate the constitution. The founders knew they were creating an imperfect Union. So they created a constitution that would self correct as its imperfections were revealed. What the constitution did not allow was armed rebellion against the union. The south repudiated the constitution, and now it is time for the south to repudiate the confederacy. And the flag which represents the rebellion.