ISU professors, students support removal of Confederate flag (IA)
By Courtney Sowder
38 min ago
... “They raised the flag in 1961 as resistance to desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement,” Hilliard said ...
“They do this slogan, ‘Heritage not hate,' but there’s no heritage that doesn’t involve hate. It’s a heritage of hate,” McDonnell said. “Hate is one thing, but what if I don’t hate those people but I can make a lot of money off of them, wreck their families, tear apart their country — but my children will live well and that’s what Europeans and Americans chose to do… and there’s just something really evil about that.”
Hilliard, author of "Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South," said even Iowa teachers make excuses for slavery. That it was just the way it was, or compared to the working class in the north it wasn’t that bad ...
“I think it’s great that we as a nation have taken down the Confederate flag. I’m proud of my Southern heritage, but the flag doesn’t define being Southern,” Catherine Brown, a senior in marketing from Texas, said ...
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