Sunday, March 18, 2007

Essay 1861


Hanging out with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• In Florida, a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has taken offense to an art exhibit that they believe presents the Confederate flag in a disrespectful fashion. The work is titled “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag” and depicts the flag being lynched (photo above). The veterans group cites a Florida law stating it’s illegal to “mutilate, deface, defile or contemptuously abuse” the Confederate flag. That Florida has such a law on the books may be cause for spirited protest — or at least the censoring of broadcasting “The Dukes of Hazzard” reruns.

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