Dear Editor,
By the logic espoused in your recent letters concerning the confederate flag flap, all flags flown in the United States should be removed.
The primary reason being that most of these flags have flown over a nation that has shamelessly exterminated hundreds of thousands of Native Americans prior to, during and after the Civil War.
Should the Native American descendants wish it, is everyone willing to make it so?
To every emblem there is some form of stigmata that may be attached.
I currently reside in the state of Georgia, nearly 25 years after graduating from the hallowed halls of ETSU, I can tell you one thing about the flag flap. Here in Georgia it is an issue of political weight.
The “New” flag was a ploy to solidify political support from the NAACP and its constituency in Atlanta.
What it ignored was the fact that the other two-thirds of the voters in the state didn’t support the change.
In the view of many Georgians this change was crammed down their throats by transplanted northern ethnic agitators. The only stake that these transplants have in the heritage of this region is that they have renamed every school, street, road, park or monument for the new African-American heroes.
They have attempted to remove every vestige of the early South from Atlanta by bulldozing the buildings and removing the monuments of the very people who built them. Perhaps they are just tired of having their heritage erased.
As for the recent letter about a friend from California’s response to the confederate flag, I would suggest a trip to any of California’s historic sites.
At least their history is allowed to be told side-by-side, not buried by any NAACP whim.
If the flag flap is such a problem, move out with your friend to California where they have no racial issues.
Richard Schmid

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