The Confederate flag was recently removed from the state capitol of South Carolina and placed in a local museum. The Stars and Bars, the battle flag of the confederate army, has been under fire ever since 1861, and in my opinion, it was time to lay her to rest.
Whoa, now! Don’t get all upset and start calling me names until I put in my two-cents worth. I am a southern boy, born and raised in Texas, and I lived my teenage years up in Tennessee where I learned true friendship had no color barrier. I love the South and have never set foot on land north of the Mason-Dixon Line except for a few excruciating hours in a Chicago airport waiting for my connecting flight to de-ice. I have immense pride of my heritage, but over time, the Stars and Bars developed into an undesirable representation of the South, mostly due to a bunch of hooded, inbred cretins packed full of hatred and ignorance. If the removal of this flag helps patch the wounds of America, I’m all for it.
But, and this is a big but, don’t go messing with anything else that we southerners hold dear to our hearts. There are some folks around here who more’n likely weren’t born in the land of grits and southern hospitality who want to eradicate anything linked to the Confederacy, or apparently to the South in general. They want statues of Jefferson Davis reduced to rubble and schools named after Robert E. Lee to be changed. Here in Hays County, some radicals are requesting that Hays High School change its mascot from Rebels to something less offensive. And the school song “Dixie” should also be removed from the school band’s repertoire. Well, here’s something else that these malcontents might find offensive: If you don’t like living in the South, get the hell out!
