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BY ELIZABETH CRISP
Sept. 8, 2015 5:43 p.m.
... Sarah Grace Brooks, president of the Baton Rouge chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and Louisiana division vice president, confirmed to The Advocate that the groups three-day annual meeting will be held at the Cook Hotel on campus this week ...
LSUs association with this event is limited to the rental of the facility. LSU does not regulate non-university related functions. Rental of an LSU facility does not imply any endorsement ...
Best characterized the NAACP-sponsored event slated for 5 p.m. Thursday as a Confederate barbecue, where the flag will be roasted on a grill.
It is against the law in Louisiana and four other states to mutilate the Confederate flag. Louisianas law sets punishment at a $100 fine and 90-day jail sentence for anyone convicted of mutilating, defiling or casting contempt by word or act against the flag, though its unlikely that would be enforced because of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have upheld the right to burn the United States flag ...
http://theadvocate.com/news/13393750-123/lsu-students-to-protest-daughters
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)that the point of burning the flag is to support BLM. Coming from this group, I really don't know what to make of it. Hard to believe theyve suddenly been enlightened but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
And as an aside, I will never understand why people from Louisiana celebrate the confederacy in any fashion. Unlike some other parts of the deep south, we've got an immensely rich history and culture totally independent of antebellum nostalgia. There's no reason to cling to the worst parts of our past when there's so much else to enjoy.
Disclaimer: I'm an LSU alumni and ancestor of known confederates.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)to protest a Daughters of the Confederacy meeting on campus
Statistical
(19,264 posts)Maybe ....
"Group plans to burn Confederate flag in protest of Daughters of Confederacy meeting"
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)I should read more carefully, headline notwithstanding.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)because its residents (correctly) feared the loss of the shipping trade. Alas, then as now, the rest of the state outvoted them.
Factoid: New Orleans did not become segregated until it was occupied by the Union Army under Gen. "Spoons" Butler, so named because everyone in high society knew to count the silverware after he paid a social visit.
edit: Oh yeah, cher/e, welcome to DU! Ex-New Orleanian here, if you hadn't already guessed!
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)Thanks for the welcome.
Sadly, the city has yet to truly integrate in most neighborhoods, which was grossly apparent in the aftermath of the storm. We're more unified as a city emotionally since then, but certainly not physically.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Although, at least in most places Uptown, the pattern is for white folks to live on the major streets with neutral grounds (median strips) like St. Charles, Napoleon, and my street, Carrollton, while the side streets are more African American. (This excludes all-white enclaves like the Garden District and the area just below Audubon Park. )