HOGA:NSVIIAA-; H¢)M.: Ntc s - THURSDAY, FEfRUARY 22, 2001 PA(iJ 5-i
00t's Recllec00: Our
acts on State Flag
KR EDITOR:
he February 8, 2001 edition of
• 1 Hogansville Home News had
1 1 mrticle by the President of its
,][llication company, Millard B.
lnes, about the "uplifting" feel-
Georgia's new flag gives him.
• se, it ismd the article, repeatedly, and
re platy concluded that Mr. Grimes,
rpstate, lagh he is no doubt a very intel-
teed ot man, really knows little about
t theref history of the Confederate
blem or what it represents.
:hed tNFirst of all, no state's flag is
led on ed to pay tribute to all of its
trrotmdlitary heroes. Soldiers in World
ttothcx I, World War II, Korea,
11 snat,nam and the Persian Gulf did
M_itch !fight for their home state. hey
dk outht for America, under the
ball aerican flag. They shouldn't be
zqer of lled as Georgians or Texans or
v Yorkers, they should be
er remembered as Americans. Sure
two m soldiers deserve as much trib-
; a riv as those who died in the Civil
¢_xlilecr, but I fail to see how the new
d?" unite rag, I mean flag, does that. It
n't yoSm incredibly unattractive cre-
I and , not far above an eyesore.
ighte The whole issue surrounding
]od su changing of the flag was the
to be ef by the NAACP, and indeed
:tety as a whole, that the
ifederate flag represents slav-
me le and oppression by Southerners
clay. Belting the Civil War. WRONG!
s. Ifthtrary to popular misinforma-
one wi, the Civil War was not fought
our jol r slavery! To put it briefly, the
lin reason for the war was money.
__===,,thern states were being heavi-
d unfairly, taxed by northern
]L dl es on all goods they imported
,111 . exported. Tired of this unfair
----xmg, eleven southern states
reded from the Union after
md thP c°ln became president, which
ratioe the north control of both the
lite House and Congress.
t of us These states had the
vtitutional right to secede since
hardeY were being unfairly taxed
nts, dtt+hout representation. Knowing
acks t loss of southern tax money
ng. )h d cripple the north, Lincoln's
till, g¢. eminent rejected the south's
cel .'bn. t to Peaceable secession and
as]) ed them self government.
ere r e°tn knew the only way to keep
gre :t southern states in the Union
s lO Jld be tolefeat them in battle.
have-i As I d before the war was
al fotlght over slavery.
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth
Rock, and long before any south-
ern states existed. By the tune the
war started in 1861, slavery was
common in the south and the north.
Since 93% of southerners didn't
own slaves, it's preposterous to
think they wold have fought a war
over something they couldn't
afford answcay. Furthermore, if the
north was so anti-slavery, why did
they continue to own slaves until
1866 - one year AFTER the war
ended? Even Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
who commanded the northern
armies, refused to give up his slaves
until the passage of the 13th
Amendment, also after the war had
ended. I'm not saying slaveD, was
not one issue in the war, but it def-
initely was not why the war began.
Another fact of the war Mr.
Grimes didn't mention, or may not
know, is that approximately 97,000
black men fought for the
Confederacy during the Civil War.
Yes, that's 97,000! They fought, and
many died, bravely for the
Southern Confederacy under that
Confederate flag. How can anyone
say the Confederate emblem does-
n't represent both white and black
Georgians?
The changing of the flag in 1956
to incorporate the Confederate
emblem is also portrayed deceit-
fully. Most people think it was an
act of defiance against forced inte-
gration, yet legislators waited four
years after that 1952 decision to
change the flag. If it was changed
as an act of defiance, why didn't
they do it in 19527
While it is true hate groups
often use the Confederate flag at
their rallies, nothing is ever men-
tioned about them also waving
American and C2wistian flags. Why
doesn't anyone protest those flags?
years.
As for Sen. Dan Lee, I disagree
with Mr. Grimes about him being
courageous for voting for the new
state flag. I am not proud of him in
the least. He voted directly oppo-
site of what the majority of people
in his district wanted. He was a
coward, as were all of the senators,
who voted to change the flag out of
fear of a boycott by the NAACP. It
was nothing more than economic
extortion - and extortionists never
quit as4aig as they get what they
want.
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