Burden by Courtney Hargrave

Author:Courtney Hargrave
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Convergent Books
Published: 2018-08-14T07:00:00+00:00

LUNSFORD: In 1986, the NAACP began passing resolutions in their national convention to bring about the eradication of everything Confederate….We began to see our street names change….We saw the clamoring to remove Confederate monuments….What I’m getting at here is this is seen by the vast majority of southern people as nothing more than widespread oppression against our culture….The vast majority of Georgians do not…see [the Confederate flag] as a racist symbol.

GOV. MILLER: Well, first of all, let’s get the difference between the official symbol of a state—which the flag is—and memorials. Georgia has got many, many memorials to the Confederacy. We’ve got over 1,100 historical markers all along our highways. We’ve got 400 monuments on our county and city squares. We’ve got three battlefields that are run by the federal parks system, and one battlefield by the state. I am not talking about doing anything with these memorials, because that is history. They are memorials. The flag is the official symbol of what a state is, and a flag should not be offensive to forty percent of its people.

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