Confederate Heroes Day - Dud or "JESUS! Why not just celebrate Usama Bin Laden day?"

However, once you get into the desegregation years, you get folks adopting this as a "fuck the gubmint" thing, which now comes down to us as a "yeahhh! I'm a rebel"/Ronnie Dobbs phenomenom.

One of the book's strengths is the light it sheds on the transformation of the Confederate battle flag from a symbol of a nineteenth-century war into a rallying point for opponents of mid-twentieth-century desegregation. Beginning with Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats in 1948 and continuing through the days of George Wallace, the flag was "endowed ... with a more specific connotation of resistance to the civil rights movement and to racial integration" (p. 124). On this point, Coski believes the flag's defenders fail to realize the uses the flag has been put to, and how--with justification--it represents for many black Americans a symbol seeking restoration of Jim Crow and rolling back their gains...

If it's the same day then that would be really fucked for obvious reasons.
If not then it's still not a coincidence they chose a day so close is it?

Like black people don't want to rock!?

Add, 'fuckers', and this is what I did every time I heard CNN Headline News talking heads from the Bush administration refer to 9/11 as the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. The genocidal policy of the U.S. government against the native peoples of this continent aside, how could one give credence to any U.S. administration so conveniently draped in the flag of patriotism as to so falsify, or at least lack in honest to witness, to the bald facts of history?

I remember the controversy in 2002 regarding the desire of the Army to display the colors of the 28th Virginia at the National Museum of the United States Army when it opened in 2009. Minnesota refused to co-operate even though the flag was stamped as belonging to the War Department, a precursor to what the Truman administration would rename the Department of Defense. The Minnesota regiment that captured that flag, on July 3, 1863 on Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the 1st Minnesota Volunteers, suffered 80% casualties (the 28th Virginia, 90%) defending the Constitution of the United States of America. Regardless of how silly the legal arguments of Ventura's Minnesota were, even the U.S. Army recognized that, in the court of public opinion, they were beaten. I think about those blond haired kids of immigrants, or immigrants themselves, like I think of the men of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, under Chamberlain, on July 2nd at Little Big Top, and as stupid as it may sound 144 years after the fact, for once I'm on the side of emotion instead of reason and I think, 'if the Feds or Virginia want it that much, let'em come and get it!' I do hope Minnesota has decided to curate it better.

I recognize the enormous effort that the men of the rebel states expended for their cause, but I persist in thinking it a criminal cause, well worth punishing even with armed force, and the sight of the Stars and Bars, as well as the battle flag still fills me with loathing, not out of hatred of the South but out of disgust for those who would pervert our constitution for the basest of personal material considerations, inexcusably, in this case, being other human beings, but the dead of Antietam, the site of the single largest one day casualties on American soil by enemies 'of our way of life' cancels the impulse, in me, to recognize their sacrifice publicly. You can commit as much persiflage as you want against the Reverend Mr. King, Jr., but his example is by so much farther important to us and redeems the blood of those who fell during the Civil War better than those who want to remember Confederate 'heroes'.

I understand that the Confederate battle flag - the Southern Cross - was used by all CSA armies. Apparently they initially used the Confederate national flag - the Stars and Bars - but it looked too like the USA flag, with predictable consequences.

http://pics.livejournal.com/leighton/pic/000kc302

the first confederate national flag - looks like one of those fake flags dudes make in iran when they want to burn and stomp on it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Confederate_National_Flag_since_Mai_1_1863_to_Mar_4_1865.svg/333px-Confederate_National_Flag_since_Mai_1_1863_to_Mar_4_1865.svg.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Confederate_National_Flag_since_Mar_4_1865.svg/250px-Confederate_National_Flag_since_Mar_4_1865.svg.png

the second and third versions - the stripe was added so as to not be confused with a white flag of surrender when it was folded up lolz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/ConfederateStatesofAmericaSeal.jpg

Incidentally, why don't they just call it Confederate Losers' Day?

As Southerners, men like Washington and Jefferson figured prominantly in Confederate iconography in an attempt to decouple loyalty to the Federal government from 'true' American patriotism.