It’s their right to do it
by digby
…and it’s our right to call them assholes for it:
That was what greeted the president in Oklahoma yesterday. But then that flag has always been nothing more than a tool for insulting African Americans so it’s not surprising that Obama haters would do this.
And in case you were wondering, Oklahoma didn’t exist during the civil war as a state. But there were people there, mostly Native Americans. And its participation in that war is extremely complicated in its own right.
They have their own history of racist oppression, there’s no need to appropriate that of the confederacy…
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