Why Hatred Of The Dixie Cross Banner Is A Pro-White Supremacist Viewpoint

And Only The Forces Of Bigotry Will Win If We Allow It Or Accept It To.

 
Why Hatred of the Dixie Cross Banner is a Pro-White Supremacist Viewpoint 

By: C.W. Roden


"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act." 
~Deitrich Bonhoeffer 
  
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Dedicated to ALL Southern people who honor the South's noble flag,
those who will no longer stand silent, nor fail to speak out against its misuse by evil.

Hatred of the Confederate flag - indeed hatred of Confederate heritage itself - is a pro-white supremacist viewpoint.

Yes, I said it, and I stand by that 100%.  

As I pointed out in my previous blog post, all legitimate Confederate heritage organizations and the Sons of Union Veterans Civil War (SUVCW) as well as several other groups, including the Cherokee and Choctaw Tribes of America, have all passed resolutions in the late 80s and early 90s condemning the misuse of the Confederate flag as a symbol of hatred.

These acts were especially significant because they were committed by the lineal descendants of both Confederate soldiers and those Union soldiers who fought against them during the War Between the States (American Civil War) 1861 - 1865...virtually the only people today who have a moral right to define what that flag and its heritage truly stands for.

Since that time, Southern heritage organizations have been working to promote the positive aspects of that heritage, often times with good results and other times with negative ones.

The good being that today any news story about such a misuse cannot be reported without some noble defender of Southern culture and Confederate heritage speaking out against the misuse of that flag, and condemning the hatred some bigot tries to associate with it. Southerners of all ethnicity and faiths, Americans and others around the world with Confederate ancestry all honor it openly and push back hard against any attempt to do away with its public or personal display.

The negative being that sometimes Southern heritage activists choose to completely ignore the impact such misuses have and push the flag's display without first making efforts at advancing proper education to the public about the flag's display and its full history - both the good and the bad.

I personally feel that full disclosure ultimately creates open and proper dialogue with those who have no particular feeling on the flag, or its continued public and private displays.

Creating any sort of proper dialogue with those who stand opposed to the display of that flag in any context whatsoever is another matter.

As I pointed out in my last blog post, many of those anti-Southern and anti-Confederate heritage regressives who stand with the Opposition believe their actions serve the greater social and political good -- at least as they would define the concept. Some of them are not always the narrow-minded fanatics who drink the kool-aid of politically correct ideology and close their minds and hearts to any thinking that doesn't conform to their own worldview.

In fact, some of them are people who have genuinely encountered ignorance and hatred displayed by someone who bore that honored standard wrongly. The result being a jaded worldview regarding any display and an automatic suspicion of anyone who feels the need to honor it. Such people are not evil in any sense of the word, nor do they necessarily deserve to be condemned.

Also, I do not necessarily speak of certain organizations as a whole who promote modern civil rights. The organizations themselves are made up of diverse groups of individuals, many of whom may not approve of the national policies of their various groups, or the current leaderships and their goals.

For example, though a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, I personally do not approve of the recent actions of the SCV leadership in regards to the Florida Division SCV's omission of a marker for Union soldiers at the Olustee National Battlefield in Florida. I feel that the American men who died there deserve to have that marker, even if they were the "enemy" -- I'd say the same if one wanted to place another marker for British Loyalists at the Kings Mountain National Battlefield in my native South Carolina. That's just my sense of honor when it comes to respect for those American-born men who fought in America's Wars.

However, it is about one particular segment of the Opposition that I would like to address. Groups of individuals who care nothing for open discussions with those who honor that flag or Southern heritage as a whole - or at least "Southern heritage" that isn't defined by them, or their useful idiots. Who feel any sort of dialogue is beneath them, and view anyone who disagrees with their own set opinions with nothing but contempt.

These are people who hear the words of Southern heritage activists, of groups and individuals who seek nothing more than to honor their ancestry, their blood and their heritage peacefully and without malice - and reject any gesture of good will, while at the same time applying broad labels to others, mocking them, calling them any sort of vile, hateful name; all the while patting themselves on the backs for being oh-so "tolerant" and "progressive" (at least by their own questionable definition of said terms).

Such is the mentality of the politically correct drone, a person who gives lip-service to individual liberty, but condemns anyone who does not meet or conform to all political and social standards they share. Sometimes even failure to conform to a single aspect of the current politically correct ideology (Example: opposing the death penalty and also opposing abortion) will earn someone the labels: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic, ect. 

The message from these anti-Southern and Confederate heritage reactionaries is quite clear: Conform Or Be Labeled.

All of this in the name of faux compassion and empathy -- claiming to speak up for black Americans and other minorities, all of whom are more than capable of speaking up for themselves as individuals and need no "great white hope" in the form of a typical white Liberal to be their mouthpiece. I'd personally consider a lower part of the anatomy to describe what they are, but I will refrain out of respect for any women reading. Indulgence of ignorance for the sake of uselessly saying "I feel your pain" is not compassion, not empathy. For the politically correct drone, it has never truly been about protecting people harmed by the sight of that flag. What it has really been about is using the issue to convince others - including themselves - of their own alleged moral righteousness.

Such people cannot comprehend how anyone - regardless of what color their skin, or their faith - can proudly call themselves a Confederate descendant, display the Dixie Cross as a living cultural symbol; while at the same time be a proud American who lives mentally in the 21st century, while respecting positive values of the past. Their own emotional attachment to their "progressive" ideology cannot allow for the idea that anyone who doesn't meet their own rigid standards of "tolerant" could be capable of any act of good will.

They cannot understand, or simple choose not to understand.

No, they shout. If you fly that flag, or put it on your car, you have to be a racist! If you're a minority who displays it you've been brainwashed! If you refuse to put it away and "get your mind right" we're going to come after you and shame you, berate you, attack you with all we have!

I have seen this mentality in action for the last 23 years. I have seen all efforts at working towards promoting the positive aspects of Confederate heritage and identity and the people who do so attacked relentlessly. I have seen what amounts to rage at any effort to honor the Southern dead - recognized American Veterans. I have seen monuments removed, flags torn down, and even suggestions that graves be relocated, for no better reason than the words: "someone was offended."

What drives this thinking - if you want to call politically correctness "thinking" (I personally call those words together the biggest oxymoron ever thought up by the human race) this drive to attack anyone who disagrees with them and displays that flag stubbornly and proudly in the face of such character attacks?

You ask any PC drone, the best answer you will always get nine-out-of-ten-times would be some variation on the words: White supremacists adopted that flag, it's been co-opted as their symbol, and its therefore racist. 

White supremacist groups who continue to misuse the Dixie Cross and co-opt it have no legitimate claim to that flag. Indeed the official banners of the Ku Klux Klan in America are the United States Flag and the Christian Flag. Neo-Nazi groups rarely misuse the Confederate flag, or display the US flag, opting instead to display the traditional swastika banners of Nazi Germany. More often one will find the Betsy Ross banner at a Neo-Nazi rally in America than one will find a Dixie Cross.

As I pointed out, Confederate heritage organizations, and various individuals in American and around the world, both disagree and actively speak out against that....and rightly so! In doing so, we as Southerners and Americans take away the power of that flag in the wrong hands to cause pain to our fellow human beings. We take a realistic and powerful stand against said white supremacist attitudes and move forward as a Southern culture, and as individuals.

This is not good enough for the anti-Confederate flag reactionaries of the Opposition, so they oppose us. They mock the efforts, and actively stand in the way of any attempt to educate others to speak out against such misuses, decrying it as nonsense - and in doing so actively support the continued misuse of the Dixie Cross and, by extension, those who commit said misuse and their own twisted racial ideology. 

That my friends is what makes hatred of the Confederate flag pro-white supremacist, and those people who attack Southern heritage defenders to be indirect bigots as well. When you stand against those preserve and honor the positives of that flag for all Southerners, when you reject the premise of a living Southern heritage and identity, when you label anyone who disagrees with you, then you not only conform to a worldview that continues to permit wrong-thinking agents of bigotry to use the flag as a tool of terror, you actually offer your personal stamp of approval for such acts. In short you offer legitimacy to those who choose to inflict terror with that flag as opposed to recognizing the positive display of that symbol as one of personal pride and identity for Southerners of all color and creeds.

Whenever I put that flag on a grave, wear it on a t-shirt, and carry it on a Confederate Memorial Day or US Veteran's Day parade, I am comfortable knowing I honor that flag for all the right reasons. I am a member of the SCV and a Confederate descendant, and I proudly work with them to promote the positives of the flag, and its role in a vast tapestry of Southern heritage and history - as well as its continue positive role in promoting a living cultural identity that millions across the world proudly honor.

I am also proud to know that in doing so I stand against the mentality of a narrow-minded bigot who would wrongly throw that flag in the face of another human being to feed their own anger and hatred. I am also proud to say I have done so on a personal level as well.

The same cannot truly be said of the Opposition. When that person says: I believe that flag is a racist symbol. I respond with: Well buddy, so does the guy in the white sheet shouting the ugly slurs. The truth of the matter is when you call that flag racist, and they label those who really honor that flag and reject such bigotry as racist, you are morally accepting the misuse of that flag by haters as the norm - and by extension offering your personal endorsement of the pain caused by such wrongful misuse.

So what does that say about you?

In my opinion, it says a hell of a lot.

Thankfully those of us who honor that flag's true heritage don't share the same misguided, pro-white supremacist viewpoint.  

We move forward. So haters, why can't you?

Have a nice day, y'all!