We honor our Confederate veterans because we consider it part of our heritage. but we will not be deterred.”For the past 12 years, members of the Confederate heritage group have placed flags on graves in the cemetery without incident on Confederate Memorial Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Following that attack, cities and states across the South acted to remove the Confederate flag from public property and to take down statues of Confederate generals. “Many black people look at that flag the way Jewish people look at the Nazi flag,” Bailey wrote. “That view is never going to change.”Way has heard that sort of criticism before but rejects the assertion that paying tribute to Confederate veterans with the flag is an endorsement of racism.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2019 21:00 UTC