The League of the South Tells Rainbow Confederates to Shape Up or Ship Out

This complicates life for some folks, doesn’t it?

Someone in Pensacola asks: “What has the League done or said to indicate they are a hate group?”

Really? REALLY?

Try this:

Sounds like Connie Chastain, doesn’t it?

From The Soldiers’ Flag to the KKK’s Flag: Some Thoughts

Defenders of Confederate heritage who have made known their support of the Confederate Battle Flag often argue that the battle flag (in both its square version–Army of Northern Virginia–and its rectangular version–Army of Tennessee) was the soldiers’ flag, and that in honoring it one honors service and sacrifice. Some advocates go further, and claim that Confederate soldiers did not fight to defend slavery (in part because they claim so few Confederate soldiers owned slaves).

Those issues are open for discussion, of course, but let’s set them aside for the moment. Rather, let’s turn to the use of the Confederate flag by the Ku Klux Klan … and why that group uses it.