[Leica] RET R SOSPECT 50

[Tina Manley]

But the majority of the people in the South (those who are MAGA supporters)
will tell you that the Confederate flag is all about heritage and history,
not hate.  I have neighbors who fly the Confederate flag in their yards
every day.  I guarantee you that most of the pick-up trucks that have
Confederate flag stickers also have Trump stickers.

The photo is history and heritage and should be posted frequently so people
will remember.

Tina

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 2:16 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Yes, when I saw this (excellent) photo, it felt weird, like seeing a
> swastika in a Jewish community center.
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> 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.
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> My opinion of the flag has not changed since.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 28 Mar 2020, at 15:33, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> > 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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