SMH Moment of the week: Florida County Replaces Confederate Flag With Confederate Flag

[AthenaAwakened]

In the wake of the reignited controversy over the Confederate battle flag, Walton County, Florida, voted Tuesday to remove the flag from the county courthouse grounds -- only to replace it with a different Confederate flag.

“It’s perplexing how this is perceived as any compromise,” Daniel Uhlfelder, a key force in the local movement to have the flag taken down, told The Huffington Post.

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The battle flag used by the Army of Northern Virginia has flown on the lawn of the Walton County Courthouse in DeFuniak Springs since 1964 -- the year President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The flag was positioned next to a Civil War monument. County commissioners voted 4-0 to replace that flag with the traditional “stars and bars” that was the first official flag of the Confederate States of America.

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“They replaced a symbol of segregation with a symbol of slavery and secession,” Uhlfelder said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/walton-county-confederate-flat_55b93172e4b0224d88350967

 

[Rhea]

Well, at least it's more honest in being "our heritage" wrt the Confederacy. Although it's entertaining that they scrapped their honesty and used the first one (that was later voted out), not the final one (that explicitly symbolized white supremacy).