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The Sons of Confederate Veterans isn't giving up its fight to fly the Confederate flag on city-owned poles in Lexington.
Attorneys for the Southern heritage group have scheduled a news conference in Roanoke today to discuss a legal challenge of a Lexington ordinance passed last September.
The ordinance states that only the city, state and U.S. flags can be flown on downtown light poles.
City officials say they received hundreds of complaints one year ago when Confederate flags were planted in holders on light poles to mark Lee-Jackson Day, a state holiday.
The ordinance does not limit other public displays of the flag.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried in the city of approximately 7,000 in rural western Virginia.
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Richmond Fed
The President of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank chose to fly the homosexual pride flag in mid-2011, which was called offensive by Virginia Del. Robert G. Marshall, among others. (It should be noted here that The Fed is a unique private/public institution.) After controversy ensued, the bank decided to no longer fly the flag. The same kind of common-sense should prevail here: don't fly an offensive flag, especially when you're the city - and also especially when a significant portion of the public finds both of these flags in poor taste.
Obviously...
We have a lot of work to do before we can all get along as "Americans". These two holidays just make me sad. For the comments below show just how far we haven't come. For all the brave men who died fighting so long ago and Dr. King, whose dream is now just a distant memory or what might have been for so many. We all are culpable....As Americans. How many of you "European Americans" said to your black neighbor on President Obama's election day (whether you voted for him or not-doesn't matter) "this day was a long time coming, wasn't it?" Think about it. And if you did, enjoy the dream....the war was not in vain.
If someone...
doesn't like it, then don't look. If you don't like a song on the radio or are offended by it or don't like a show on tv then you change the channel. I don't care for a lot of stuff that happens or what other people like so I just ignore it or move on. It's that simple.
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Confederate Flag
I am Thankful for that wonderful decision! I don’t want to see that flag anywhere.
And I would...
rather not hear the words African American either. Whether your black, white, red, pink, purple, yellow or whatever color God made your skin, we all live here and we are all AMERICANS!
BINGO!! My ancestors are
BINGO!! My ancestors are Irish. I'm no more Irish-American than anyone is African-American. It's a ridiculous term, created for a ridiculous reason. American is American - Period.
The confederate Flag is...
...a significant and authentic part of our History. You can no more make it go away than you can the History it represents. Displaying it on days of remembrance of real historical figures who could have won this country in the Civil War - only help us not to forget what we might have been. Remember, those who deny the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.