flagging it

An enemy of the nation if he is a German, a Japanese, a member of the the old Soviet military complex of nations, a Viet Cong, a North Korean, a Muslim he and the flags he has flown are considered foul, nasty, items of war that have no place on the cement plazas of federal buildings, no place to fly high on the ground of state capitals…and yet if the enemy was a white guy surrounded by his white bride, living in the South all eager to follow Christ’s preaching that the Negro race is and was designed to be inferior and thus considered slaves his flag is pure, it is the American way and it deserves to be cherished and honored. And yet, those who consider themselves ascendents of the Mayflower the true Americans who were really never immigrants because this nation was their manifest destiny, wail and cry and find nothing wrong, nothing Un-American about languishing and loving them the flag of the Confederacy. Purity to them is when inequality runs rampant, and you can identify and enemy and refuse he or she freedoms. For the hypocrites clutching their Bibles assault weapons white hoods and robes, it is a bad day in America because one historic sign of anarchy is hopefully being taken away.

Confused and all full of consternation, the T-Pubs are now all over the place trying to either back track on their call for the wonders of a Confederate Flag, or continue their obstinate and obtuse demand that the Civil War was their bit of history where real democracy in the form of tyranny took place, so keep that flag flying, damn it! Heroes’ to many of the T-Pubs were the generals and foot soldiers who waged war against an America which tried to believe that equality was meant for all. Taking down the flag some hard core anarchists insist is hurting the souls and foundations of good white folk whose ancestors believed that Negro’s had a place in nation but not at the same water fountain, or at the back of the bus, or not in my neighborhood. For the hypocrites who have never read real books of history, whose own family dynasty owned humans as slaves , who attend churches where the their God is of white color and blond hair or who just watch FOX just listen to Limbaugh America will never be the same without the reminder of a waring nations flag flying high.

So, this week we are debating something which seems to simple to decide. All these years after a Civil War, after march-ins attempts at desegregation, after permitting people of color to be considered like the rest of white America we are STILL talking about the flag of an enemy nation having a place anywhere but in the dens of Racists, the caves of the stupid, the homes of the fearful, the enclave of people too terrified to admit their own failings. And when and if all states realize how Un-American is is to fly the Confederate flag are we conning ourselves into believing equality will finally find it way?