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Patriotism and the History of Prejudice

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A review of The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice (Shoemaker + Company, 2022) by Wendell Berry

I had heard of Wendell Berry for quite some time, and though I had an idea of what he was for—‘what I stand for is what I stand on’—I had never read him. I believe that my very first introduction to him was in one of Clyde Wilson’s ‘Sayings By or For Southerners’ articles: ‘I do not see the national flag flying from the staff of the sycamore / Or any decree of government written on the leaves of the walnut.’

Mr. Berry is not just a capital-A Agrarian writer and philosopher,…

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Charge against Fort Smith city administrator requested over flags’ removal

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(He willfully and knowingly broke at state law for political brownie points from Dems – DD)
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(NWA Online) Attorney Joey McCutchen is asking Daniel Shue, Sebastian County prosecuting attorney, to charge Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken with a misdemeanor for removing the Flags Over Fort Smith display without public input or approval from city directors.
McCutchen claimed Friday that in doing so, Geffken repeatedly violated the Arkansas State Capitol and Historical Monument Protection Act.
The monument act became law in April 2021. It states that except as permitted by law or authorized under the Arkansas History Commission, a historical monument cannot be moved, vandalized, damaged, destroyed, removed, altered, renamed or otherwise disturbed. However, the act doesn’t prohibit a governmental entity having responsibility for maintaining a historical monument from taking proper measures for the protection, preservation, care, repair or restoration of a monument.
A Class A misdemeanor is punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500…Read the rest
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They won’t be happy even after dynamite comes to Stone Mountain

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Promised changes to Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain slow coming

(Lawton Constitution) ATLANTA — The Confederate flags are still there. All four of them.
They still fly a few hundred paces up Stone Mountain, high atop their poles in a stone plaza, where the hundreds or thousands of people who summit the granite outcropping each day can’t help but plod past.
Some 15 months ago, the state authority that manages Stone Mountain vowed that the flags would be moved to a less visited part of the Georgia park: a relatively simple undertaking as the Stone Mountain Memorial Association made baby steps toward offering a “21st-century perspective” at the home of the world’s largest Confederate monument.
Documents obtained through the Open Records Act show a contract for the relocation work was actually signed almost a year ago.
But the flags are still there.
“We just kind of put it on the back burner and left it there,” memorial association CEO Bill Stephens admitted in a recent interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Stone Mountain’s longtime private management partner pulled out at the end of July, citing “protests and division” among its reasons. Stephens said the transition to a new manager for the park’s attractions, hotels and conference centers has “taken the oxygen out of the room for anything else.”…Read the rest
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It’s easy to put words in the mouth of a dead person

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‘My concern is my Grandfather’s legacy’: Marvel grandson reacts to confederate flag controversy in Georgetown

(47WMDT) GEORGETOWN, Del. – Calls for the confederate flag to come down from a local museum in Georgetown continue with the grandson of the museum’s founder speaking out, saying if the Georgetown Historical Society doesn’t take it down the family wants the museum’s name to change.
Tom Marvel, the grandson of Nutter D. Marvel who founded the Marvel Carriage Museum back in 1968, tells 47 ABC’s Rob Petree that the confederate flag does not represent their family’s wishes. Now, more than 50 years after its founding, the museum is embroiled in controversy over the flag flying on the grounds where Nutter and his family once lived.
“My concern is my grandfather’s legacy,” explained Tom Marvel. “My grandfather left it as a horse and carriage museum. A confederate flag and confederate monument, it’s just not something he would’ve let go out there.”
The land and buildings at the Marvel Museum were gifted to the Georgetown Historical Society (GHS) by the Estate of Nutter D. Marvel Sr. in the winter of 1996. At that time, there were several historic buildings that had been moved and restored by Marvel with the help of the Historical Society on the museum grounds.
For years, local civil rights organizations, elected officials, and concerned citizens have called for the confederate flag, which flies on the grounds of the Marvel Museum, to be taken down. The Delaware Grays’ Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) installed the monument where the confederate flag flies outside the museum back in 2007…Read the rest
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