JBL took to Facebook to comment on the current controversy around the Confederate flag flying on the Charleston, South Carolina state house grounds. For those who may not have been following this story, following the shooting of nine African-Americans by Dylann Roof in a Charleston church, the state has come under fire for the fact that the Confederate flag is still flying at the building, and in fact was at full mast when the US and South Carolina flags were lowered to half-mast. The flag cannot be removed without a two-thirds majority vote in the state congress; proponents of the flag claim that it honors their ancestors and heritage, while critics say it is a symbol of slavery, repression and a treasonous secession from the US.
JBL posted:
Gonna be on my friend Jerry Doyle’s show tonight talking about Confederate Flag issue. Amazing to me that the flag was born out of biggest treasonous event in our country’s history and the core problem was owning another race of human beings as slaves-yet, some want to claim that these four years (1861-1865), that a flag that was never even adopted as the Confederacy Flag is ‘their heritage’.
A lot of soldiers died for this flag-so did a lot of soldiers die for the Nazi flag, sorry to say those lives were wasted in both cases.
The flag came into prominence because of the Klan and white supremacists after the war-some heritage. I think if a person wants to put out s symbol of hate and discrimination and hang it on their private property-they have every right to do so, even though I hate it. But I think government should not be allowed to display it publicly except a museum of history-and only in a case inside.
I hope we can move on from something as disgraceful as this flag.
