Flying Our Flags, Proudly

EVEN THE MOST FERVENT confederate flag wavers might be willing to concede that there are more important issues sitting around waiting for solutions. Stuff like poverty, disease, and war. The usual stuff. Besides, we're talking about a four year flag here. Didn't General Lee, after the War Between the States, say that the time had come to fold the stars and bars, forever? Lee believed that after the war there should be a minimum of commemoration of the conflict, and a maximum of healing and reconciliation. Hence, you would think, that were he alive today, he would understand that the stars and bars is offensive to many African-Americans, (or "niggras" as he might've called them), he would have understood why they are offended, and would have been amazed that the flag flies so widely in the year 2015. If we're honoring the flags of past misguided governments, and taking impact on our history, culture, and heritage into account, raise the union jack, matie! The American south, like the rest of the United States, is far more English than confederate. The honoring of heritage not racism argument only goes so far, particularly when considering that the confederate flag only came out en mass during the height of the civil rights movement, but had remained mostly folded away prior to that time. Indeed, the confederate flag made a dramatic and sudden reappearance in response to the civil right movement of the late fifties and early sixties; and this is not a coincidence. Maybe we need a new holiday in the U.S.: "Heritage Flag Day", in which we all fly proudly our past flags, whether our ancestors were English, German, Spanish, whatever. for the native Americans, we'll have to come up with something appropriate.