Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, when I saw this (excellent) photo, it felt weird, like seeing a swastika in a Jewish community center. Back in the late 1980s when I lived in Tampa, there was one of the many controversies about flying the Stars and Bars at the state capitol in one of the neighboring states, I don?t remember if it was Georgia or Alabama. In any event, I had a letter published in the Tampa Tribune in which I argued that flying the Conferederate flag was morally equivalent to flying the Nazi flag. Many people at the office where I worked came by to commend me, white and black. My opinion of the flag has not changed since. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > On 28 Mar 2020, at 15:33, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > > >> The flag looks amateur and probably done by children, maybe the same >> children in the image. I wonder about the mindset of the teacher, and >> then remember the times, and people like George Wallace. I presume it >> didn't make the paper. > > That is a Confederate flag, which 100 years after the end of the US civil > war and the dissolution of the Confederacy had become a symbol of white > supremacy. I suspect that it wasn't made by black children. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information