It’s about time. The Marine Corps is all about tradition. Traditions says that when you lose a war your colors come down. They don’t come down then go back up a few years later.
On a side note. The state of Georgia still uses the stars and bars as it’s state flag. I have no clue how they get away with it.
The Stars and Bars does not have as much of the negative connotation as does the Battle Flag.
Consequently, you don’t see the same kind of push back against it as you do against the Battle Flag.
Mississippi is the lone State sticking with the Battle Flag.
However, most non State entities, including private companies, private citizens, county and municipal governments and Federal Courts are now using the Stennis Flag. My own company flies the Stennis Flag at its Mississippi facilities. The official State Flag is banned for use.
Below is the Stennis Flag.
Good deal.
The battle flag was for warriors. 75 percent of whom were not slave owners. The stars and bars flew over Richmond during the entire confederacy. It makes no sense to give it a pass.
Just? You need to get current.
Which flag has been seen at more KKK rallies than the other?
The Confederacy was defeated a long time ago. The KKK and white supremisists haven’t been defeated, which flag do they fly?
It is 2020.
Most of the general public don’t have a clue about the Stars and Bars or that it was even associated with the Confederacy.
It is the Battle Flag that the public recognizes and associates with the Confederacy and frankly most people believe it was the Official Flag of the Confederacy.
It is the Battle Flag that the KKK and the far right marches with in parades, not the Stars and Bars.
Most people don’t even recognize the Stars and Bars, therefore it generally does not generate opposition and at most gets apathetic push back from the people who do recognize it.
It is the Battle Flag that has been driven into the hearts and minds of the public as a symbol of the KKK, the far right and white nationalism and therefore it is the Battle Flag to which people respond to very negatively.
History and descendant groups did not protest strongly enough that this trash appropriated the symbols of their ancestors when it started, some seventy years ago.
“When it started 70 years ago.” The Klan did not start in the '50s. It is much older than that and the issue wasn’t “stop appropriating flags” the issue was “stop killing people”.
And, to law enforcement, “stop letting people go who you know are guilty” (kinda like the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, where the sheriff declares “no foul” even before the body is removed from the scene.)
On a positive note, in '58, the Native American Lumbee did shut down a big Klan rally in N.Carolina and drive their leader into disgrace. The Battle of Maxton Field - YouTube
The use of confederate symbology started roughly seventy years ago. Almost entirely US flags and patriotism when the Klan reformed after the dawning of the twentieth century.
