Hundreds Rally in Support of Confederate Flag
Last Saturday, hundreds upon hundreds of Southerners showed up at Stone Mountain in Georgia to support the Confederate battle flag at a rally. Stone Mountain is the country’s largest Confederate memorial, and has been targeted by the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP for removal.
One of the rally organizers, Thomas Jewell, a black man, said that he rallies to the flag because it represents his Southern heritage. He is not offended by it, and knows that the flag has been misrepresented in the past.
“If you look a little deeper, you’ll find out what it was all about,” Jewell said. “The flag was never meant to be racist. It’s a heritage thing. It’s a Southern thing.”
Billy Armistead said he came to the rally “to honor the memory of his relative Lewis A. Armistead, who fought for the Confederate States of America in the Civil War.”
Joel Colston said, “It’s not about hate. People are trying to take our flag away from us and that’s not right. We’re trying to do something about it.”
Jimmy Creek, a rally organizer, said, “We do rallies, not protests. We just do it peacefully. We don’t want trouble, but we’ll back each other up [if there is].”
Many more rallies are scheduled in the coming weeks. One is scheduled to take place in Washington D.C. on September 5, and I’m sure it will have a huge turnout. This just goes to show how more people are defending the flag than are protesting its existence.
J.D.R. Hawkins 
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2015/08/truth.html
My husband has a confederate flag on his front license plate. While I can understand not wanting to loose the freedom to choose whether or not to display it, I don’t really understand why people think their heritage is being taken away because your heritage simply can not be taken away. Isn’t heritage more than a flag? I’ve seen more confederate flags flying in the past 2 months than I’ve seen in the past year. Attempts at removing the flag seem to be backfiring if you ask me.