This is another example of the NAACP outliving their usefulness. Surely, there must be more important issues facing their cause than this. Maybe we can get them to boycott the state like they did in SC, our tourism could use a boost.

"Battle added that black people in Dodge County are willing to let the flag fly on courthouse property one day a year -- Confederate Heritage Day -- but not every day."

I was stunned when I read this.

Since when does the NAACP get to decide when a flag should or should not be flown? Who elected those people?

Did EVERY black person in Dodge county decide this?

Maybe it is time for Dubose and Battle to get the HELL out of Dodge!

Gee whiz, onlysane. I had no idea we have so many former slaves alive today.

Seriously, you might want to rethink your wording of the first sentence of the last paragraph.

"Battle added that black people in Dodge County are willing to let the flag fly on courthouse property one day a year -- Confederate Heritage Day -- but not every day."

Does anyone believe this? It would appear that as soon as race-based organizations like the NAACP obtain acquiescence on one such issue, the bar is raised the next time around--like the issue over the flag flying over the courthouse in SC: when it came down, the NAACP were quiet for a while. Now they want it off the premises altogether. Eventually, the NAACP would demand that Dodge County take the flag down on that one day a year and that it never go up again.

DuBose: "“You can be legally right sometimes, but morally wrong.”

Battle: "It’s not even a legal flag."

Which is it?

To onlysane1left - #1. The War of Southern Independence was not started or faught over slaves, therefore the Confederate battle flag has NOTHING to do with slavery whatsoever. In fact, black slaves were actually brought into this country under the Unites States of America flag. . .the Stars and Stripes. They were brought into this country by northern traders through the northern ports. So if the NAACP really wants to have a BEEF about a flag, it's the Stars and Stripes they should be gripping about, not the southern battle flag of the Confederacy.

#2. Of course you will NEVER read this in any American History Book, but the FIRST black slave owner in the beautiful United States of America, was a black man from Virginia named Anthony Johnson who in 1654 was granted an indentured servant of his named John Casor to be his slave for life.

More people need to be educated about the TRUE facts of the War of Southern Independence and LEAVE OUR FLAG ALONE!!!!!!!!!

Onlysane, I direct you to chapter 10 of the book, 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, by Thomas E Woods. He is a best selling author and historian who got his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Masters and PhD from Columbia. While you are at it, you should check out the other 32 questions.

That should answer your question about why the Civil War was fought.

Newhere, we are glad you are gone! Surely you must be from a Yankee place, Baaaaaaaston, that is North of the Mason Dixon line. We in the South, the real South not Texas, won't let a bunch of nothings (NAACP) tell us what to do!! As others have said those NAACP guys should be gone with the wind. Tongue in cheek if you did not get it! Oh, I was bad with this post!

From the picture, it looks like the flag is flying quite near the Confederate memorial statue. Why have a problem with that? Statue of a Confederate soldier and the flag he problem fought under. It's not like they are flying the flag on a pole above the courthouse. It's on the grounds like the one at the state house in Cola, SC. And yes, I know that the NAACP objects to that. What they really need to object to and if the really want "to advance colored people" is the number of young black women who are giving up education and the opportunity to better themselves by having babies before they can afford them and the young men who are committing crimes and winding up in prison, and fathering those babies that the taxpayers are expected to pay for, a much more worthwhile a pursuit for the true advancement, I would say. That's not to say that there are not white people behaving the same way, but the percentage is much lower. The whole mindset to behave that way needs to change.

I see the Chronicle saw fit to remove my post stating the problem is the print media stirring the pot by giving the NAACP a venue to spew their racist rants! Lest we forget, the Confederate States of America WAS a country, with a government and constitution. Therefore, it was not a "Civil" War, but a war between two recognized nations!

" As a taxpayer, he said, he shouldn’t have to see it when he goes there to pay his taxes."

Interesting point. Let's give every tax payer in that county a vote for every dollar they pay in county taxes. The people who are providing the majority of the support for the county should have the right to choose what flag flies at its courthouse. You want a bigger say? Simply put your money where your mouth is.

The people who are providing the majority of the support for the county should have the right to choose what flag flies at its courthouse. You want a bigger say? Simply put your money where your mouth is.

Gee, that sounds like fascism. Companies, and the rich would then run the country and put their flags up because they then pay the most to have it their way. (Which they do now, but it just isn't that obivious.)

Onlysane, I'm glad you picked up on the reason I gave you those credentials. You just didn't glean the real reason. LOL.

It's nice to see that not all Ivy League grads are flaming liberals. Dr. Woods' credential that matters to me is the fact that he is the New York Times bestselling author of 11 books.

Personally I do think the Ivy League education is a good credential, for the most part. Lots of people in my family have attended Ivy League schools, including me.

However, one of the least capable college students I have ever encountered was unfortunately a black girl from Georgia, one of 3 girls from Georgia admitted to my college that year. It was quite obvious she was there only because of affirmative action. And before folks start screaming racism on my part, balance that I found that year was that a male student from the black high school in my town was admitted to MIT, and rightfully so. He had the credentials and he did well.

"Gee, that sounds like fascism. Companies, and the rich would then run the country and put their flags up because they then pay the most to have it their way."

Onlysane, I think you need to brush up on the definition of Facism...

"a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition"

Now let's think about that definition...the NCAAP wants to forcible supress their opposition (the people who are currently flying a flag they don't approve of).

Yeah, that knife can cut both ways, can't it?

To clarify, at no time did I suggest there be a dictorial leader or an autocratic government. All I suggested was that the people who contibute to the society get to have a vote and the people who drain the society do not.

That's not facism...at least it's not Webster's definition.

And before anyone jumps on me, I'm just pointing out a major flaw in Onlysane's argument. I'm not calling anyone (including the NAACP) facists.