Highlighting Hatred
Highlighting Hatred, originally uploaded by darnlucky.
My neighbors across the street hung a Confederate Flag on the front of their house, and pointed a bright spotlight on it over the weekend.
I'd like to believe that this flag was hung as a symbol of pride in Southern heritage. Maybe if either of the people living in the house were from the South, I'd be prone to look on the bright side and believe that they were embracing an "American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God" attitude. And while I believe that personal expression is extremely important, and that we are lucky to have the freedom to express our views and beliefs as freely as we are in America, I wish that ignorant rednecks would stop highlighting the hatred that this flag has come to represent.
Hanging the flag was bad enough. I wouldn't be so bothered by it if I only had to look at it for 12 hours a day. But non stop racism out of every window in my house? There goes the neighborhood.