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From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:16:07 +0200
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Yes, when I saw this (excellent) photo, it felt weird, like seeing a 
swastika in a Jewish community center. 

Back in the late 1980s when I lived in Tampa, there was one of the many 
controversies about flying the Stars and Bars at the state capitol in one of 
the neighboring states, I don?t remember if it was Georgia or Alabama. In 
any event, I had a letter published in the Tampa Tribune in which I argued 
that flying the Conferederate flag  was morally equivalent to flying the 
Nazi flag. Many people at the office where I worked came by to commend me, 
white and black.

My opinion of the flag has not changed since.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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> On 28 Mar 2020, at 15:33, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 
>> The flag looks amateur and probably done by children, maybe the same
>> children in the image. I wonder about the mindset of the teacher, and
>> then remember the times, and people like George Wallace. I presume it
>> didn't make the paper.
> 
> That is a Confederate flag, which 100 years after the end of the US civil 
> war and the dissolution of the Confederacy had become a symbol of white 
> supremacy.  I suspect that it wasn't made by black children.
> 
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