It’s All Over Now

Uncle Bubba and I were chatting after dinner one evening when he casually asked, “Have you noticed that everything has changed since they took down the rebel flag from public places?”
I shook my head “No” before realizing that he was being facetiously sarcastic when as he continued.
“Yessir, racism is over.”

Did you know that the flag that everyone has equated to hate is not the confederate flag? Of course not, not if you only listened to “the news”. Hold onto your hat but all of the flap over the rebel flag was wildly inaccurate. The rebel flag here:

is actually a version of the Virginia battle flag. It was used by Robert E. Lee when he realized that the first version of the Confederate flag

was too similar to the American flag and too difficult to discern in the chaos of battle. So he used a square battle flag while fighting the North on the battle fields. A square flag: symbolically, shape is a critical component. What else is there for a flag as a symbol but shape and color?

This is why the rectangular rebel flag is not the Virginia battle flag, though many people equate the rebel flag as representative of the south. At the same time that the battle flag was being utilized, a second Confederate flag was designed.

However this design had a major flaw. When it was hanging limp it often looked like a white flag of surrender. So a vertical red stripe was added to the end of the flag.

But now that the Confederate flag was established, it was futile because the war was coming to an end and as we all know, the Confederacy was defeated by the Union. To the victors go the spoils and the Union’s next actions fated America’s divisiveness. Isn’t that odd being that they were calling themselves the Union? In short, they divided the confiscated properties of the South and in time, fashioned history to reflect greatly on the North.

As Uncle Bubba points out, more rebel flags have been seen since this controversy began, and probably more sold. They are flying on poles in the back of pickup trucks, and hanging off of house and in the front yards of Americans, once free to express whatever they want. In Bubbie’s view, ignorance has been to often confused with racism.

Hill or E-mail

There are approximately 2 million federal employees. Two million people that know that using federal email for personal correspondence is not allowed as well as using personal email accounts for federal operations. Each employee is also notified in writing that any official email written from a personal account that is the property of the federal government and they are not allowed to delete without permission. They also received an official email reminder of email communication policies shortly after the story broke about Hillary Clinton using her personal email for official communications.

It’s been well documented that Hillary Clinton has not complied with the Federal Records Act (not to mention the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch and Homeland Security’s laws on cyber security), however, little has been mentioned that she could not break the rules without others being complicit in it. Have any other these people been penalized or disciplined? Being that they are public servants we have the right to know. The only defense for Hillary Clinton and the people around her that enabled her to break the rules is that they are stupid, too ignorant to know the rules, or liars.

As Mrs. Clinton aims to climb to the top of the Hill and buy a presidential election, she is obviously a person whose actions indicate that she believes that there are those to whom the rules don’t apply and she is one of those special people. That makes her dangerous because a president should be self assured, forceful, but respectful. What government do we have when the highest office doesn’t respect the the rules, the Constitution?

This also doesn’t say much for Mrs. Clinton’s democratic opponent Bernie Sanders. In his debate comment about moving past Clinton’s email issue to talk about the important things shows his ignorance of the importance of staying within the rules and his lack of respect for Constitutional authority.

In Bubbie’s view, Hillary Clinton knowingly broke the rules by using her personal email for official use and in doing so, broke the law. Any of the 2 million federal employees could be fired, fined, and sent to jail for doing as much.