Across the South, the Confederate flag keeps coming down.
We should replace it with the white flag of surrender.
David CookView and read more
* Confederate flag debate intensifies as local rally draws national attention* Stone Mountain hardens stance on keeping flag* 100 march in protest after Confederate flag removed from Chattooga courthouse* Confederate flag removed from Chattooga County courthouse* Photos: Confederate flag supporters rally in Fort Oglethorpe* Dunlap man plans giant Confederate battle flag monument on Fredonia Mountain* South Carolina Senate votes to remove flag from Statehouse grounds
It is time Dixie surrenders, again, and once and for all. It is time we acknowledge that fighting the Civil War was a tragic, violent mistake – slavery a hellish, moral-less enterprise, and states’ rights a Trojan horse to allow it – as are the ongoing political-culture wars we’ve been fighting ever since.
Dixie was on the wrong side of Jim Crow.