Defenders of Confederate Symbols Mount a Counterattack

[struggle4progress]

By CAMERON MCWHIRTER
Updated Jan. 1, 2016 10:13 p.m. ET

... Sharon Brown, a 43-year-old African-American activist who has launched an effort to remove the Confederate battle emblem—the “Southern Cross”—from the Mississippi flag, said that her work brought hundreds of supporters to march through Jackson calling for the change. Several cities and colleges in the state have already removed the flag.

Her work also brought nasty phone calls to her home, with strangers yelling “the normal ignorant remarks,” she said. “Change is never easy” ...

Dewey Barber, owner of Confederate flag retailer Dixie Outfitters, in Odum, Ga., said sales have “overwhelmed” his company last summer and fall. Many flags are out of stock as suppliers rush to fill orders, he said. “It’s off the charts” ...

In Georgia, a battle erupted at Stone Mountain, a granite outcropping east of Atlanta that bears 90-foot-tall likenesses of Confederate leaders chiseled in its side ... State law explicitly requires rebel flags at the park ...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/defenders-of-confederate-symbols-mount-a-counterattack-1451695705

[SCantiGOP]

1. Many in the South still think

that they are going to win the Civil War if they just keep the faith. That's why electing that black President hurt so much.

But the war might be about over. It took a horrible tragedy at Emmanuel AME church to get that damn flag off of our statehouse grounds, but a recent rally to commemorate the anniversary of SC's secession was expected to attract "several thousand Southern patriots from around the country" (their words from the press release). Official police estimate was 20-30 rebels, with about 50 counter-protesters on the other side of the statehouse.