Here's How You Can Help Fight Racism, From Home!

You can't love God and hate God's children.

Route 555 Willisburg, Kentucky

I'm pretty sure these people go to church every week. That's because everybody in these parts goes to church. And, even though we have lots of Catholics, I'm just going to venture a guess that they are Protestant.

I don't really understand how these kind of people bow their heads, read their Scriptures and pray to the God they understand week after week (and sometimes 2 and 3 times a week) and justify something like this. You don't have to even be literate to know that the Confederate flag is offensive at best and intimidating and disgusting, most likely, to virtually all people of color, as well as to many, many white folks. All you have to do is ask a person of color.

Of course, at present, it is their right to fly them, wave them, and have them in public. At present, the flag is not seen as hate speech.

What I hope to do here is share the pictures and locations of these flags. My hope and prayer is that some day,  these flags will come down. Until they do, we'll continue to speak out.

Please help out... share this blog widely.

Here's the email address to which pics can be sent: confederateflagsout@gmail.com

You can send the location of the flag, an exact address, or a general one, and rest assured that I will not post your name, email address or identity, only the photo.

Thanks for helping with this grass roots initiative!

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I think the question for people who persist in flying, wearing, and otherwise using the Confederate Flag as a symbol is, "What does it mean to you?"

I believe there was a time when a certain segment of Southern society still harked back to their own ancestors who fought in the Civil War.  My own family, on both my maternal and paternal grandparents' sides, have deep Southern roots. So when I was about 18, and I visited my Uncle Jay Dee Patton (yes. We are distantly related to General Patton) in Richmond, and he drove to the circle on Monument Street where the huge statue of Robert E. Lee astride his horse sits commanding, pulled the car over,  made us get out and salute, I saw no irony whatsoever.  But I was young, and I'd been raised with a white person's education in America.

That ship has sailed.

It's The Movement for Black Lives and Standing Up for Racial Justice "Take Action" Day!

So....

Is the Confederacy in its death throes? 

..The only good confederate flag is a very old, very tattered one. (Exit 48BG Parkway)

Here's my action.

I've thought about this for some time. Those of you who have been flying that Confederate flag (and later, we can get intyo what kind of nonsense that even is) especially since Dylan Roof sat in Bible study in an AME Church with nine good Christian people, and then cold-blooded murdered them, after which you clearly saw,  even if you can't read, him posing with numerous Confederate flags, you do understand now that any remanant of an excuse that you ever had for that flag is wiped out, and everyone knows  it means you are racist?

 So I intend to help you flout that, since you evidently want the world to know. I encourage people, inCentral Kentucky, and anywhere, to send me pictures which I will publish. I'll include the address, too, so you can thank these people for at least being honest about their racism.

Manahawkin, NJ (weeks after Charleston shooting)

Walmart, Bardstown, KY. I find the connection between Walmart and C-flags quite intriguing.

Willisburg Cemetery (Caretaker's House?)

Perryville Battlefield Road

Perryville, KY

Anderson County, KY