The only reason I am writing

this is because I am tired of opening this paper up to see what is going

on around this beautiful county, and I keep seeing you flag people not

trying to see things from any other view than your own. Why do you flag

people hear what you want to hear and believe what you want to believe?

That flag was passed

in defiance of desegregation laws one year after Brown v. Board of education.

Even the regretful legislators who passed it (back when African-Americans

who could not vote had no say) admit to that fact. You flag people need

to realize that as well.

No one is saying your flag

is illegal to fly, wear on your clothes, or put on the back of your ugly,

rusty, and muddy trucks. I mean, gosh, your flag is still on the state

flag now!

Maybe I could understand your

argument a little better if the Confederate symbol was completely gone.

Just because the state flag is not dominated by the symbol, you get mad

at the state whose views are not dominated by your own. You flag people

are so against compromise!

All I am saying is that you

flag people need to look at other people's point of view from time to

time. And [as for] Scott Gilbert Jr., [who] tried to say that human rights

progressed under the Confederate flag, you might as well give credit to

the pole the flag was flying on too because that flag had nothing to do

with civil or human rights.

So anyway, flag people, stop

complaining. Although your divisive flag will not be the legal symbol

of this state anymore, take a quick look around and you will notice that

an outsider would think it is because that flag hasn't gone anywhere.

Phillip Hamilton

North Fayette