Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Issues on Which Race Matters

From Slate: Christopher Hitchens on why should the former Gov. Mike Huckabee should not get a free pass from the MSM on the Confederate Flag Issue. According to Hitchens, the appeal to the Confederate Flag is strictly racist for three reasons:
1) The South Carolina flag is a perfectly nice flag, featuring the palmetto plant, about which no "outsider" has ever offered any free advice.

2) The Confederate battle flag, to which Gov. Huckabee was alluding, was first flown over the South Carolina state Capitol in 1962, as a deliberately belligerent riposte to the civil rights movement, and is not now, and never has been, the flag of that great state.

3) By a vote of both South Carolina houses in the year 2000, the Confederate battle flag ceased to be flown over the state capitol and now only waves (as quite possibly it should) over the memorial to fallen Confederate soldiers.

1 comment:

harrogate said...

Hitch is right.

Nobody should get a pass on something like this.