Confederate flag still flies; crackers haven't changed a bit The oppressor nation just proved all the liberal claptrap about progress in the united $tates wrong. On April 18th, whites in Mississippi saved their state flag instead of changing it slightly to remove slave era symbols. During the u.$. Civil War, the South subverted the U.$. government and lost the war. However, today, while some people continue to go to prison for subversion, politicians such as President George W. Bush support flying the Confederate Flag as if the pro-slavery Confederacy never lost. It just goes to show that even military overthrow of the government is OK by our rulers if it is done in the name of white nation supremacy. Many supporters of the Confederacy say that they support states' rights, to which MIM says, "so what?" To pretend that states' rights are more important than the issue of slavery and racism is racist in itself. The debate over "states' rights" before (and after) the civil war was a thin cover for the debate over slavery. After all, the reason it came up in the first place was because some states wanted to assert their "right" to own slaves. Others say that the flag is an important symbol of their "heritage"--as if the heritage of the Confederate battle flag was not the blood and stolen labor of millions. You want "heritage?" Why not take up symbols of the fight to overthrow the slavocracy, the struggle of Blacks to achieve even the "democratic rights" now promised them in the u.$. constitution, some of which they are still denied? We can't pretend that battle flag doesn't mean anything, or that it means whatever people want it to mean. "According to unofficial election returns, 756,442 voted in the election, with 488,630, or 65%, favoring the 1894 flag, and 267,812, 35%, wanting the new design. The vote was thought to be generally along racial lines, although pre-election polls showed that up to 30% of blacks supported the old flag." Note: USA Today web site April 18, 2001, http://www.usatoday.com/news/npaintbox.htm