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Movement Grows To Make June 27 'National Burn The Confederate Flag Day'
The battle flag of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, which is the flag most commonly referred to as the Confederate flag, has long been a symbol that divides the country. While its display has always been contentious, renewed anger arose after Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old male who posed with the flag several times in his manifesto, went into Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and murdered nine innocent people over their race.
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Fighting hate with hate is the first step in the wrong direction. This is not going to end well.
It'll be FPH all over again. We sort of have the same thing here in Australia with the Southern Cross (TIL the Confederate Flag has the same name) which sort of goes back to our Eureka Flag which "According to Frank Cayley's book, Flag of Stars, the flag's five stars represent the Southern Cross, and the white cross joining the stars represents unity in defiance". Before the Cronulla Race Riots the flag didn't mean much, nor was the Southern Cross seen that often as tattoos. Now, it's rare to go a day without seeing someone with a SC tattoo'd on themselves somewhere.
Suffice it to say that your warning comes too late. Hate picked this fight, centuries ago. Fighting hate with hate, as you say, however, was what it regretably took to take the fight out of the hate that endures.