Oh, yeah! Of course! News media is illequipped to talk about why we burn the flag.
For the news media, it became about how I
was upsetting people. They couldn’t talk about
how it’s a disruptive, regressive symbol that
does not represent what they pretend it does.
The story is not my ideological position. I’m
burning the Confederate flag. I feel like if it
were the American flag, people might not notice at all.
Can you speak to the idea that the Confederate flag is “holding us back” as a
country?
Numerous times, people have asked me why
I buried the flag. It is a regressive, repressive
symbol that does not represent the ideology and political context of the contemporary
South. Regression, here, means that it is tied
to backward social/political/economic perspectives. That flag does not represent today’s
South. There’s a lot more diversity, a lot more
black people, Hispanic people. This is not a
society that’s built on white supremacy, it’s
a society that is more diverse in every way
imaginable. To say that the flag defines how
we should conceive of southern society is ridiculous for a variety of reasons.
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