Riding With The King

Riding With The King

A Confederate Pride Ride and Rally will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in King, NC, which should surprise no one who knows the place.

In 2004, the City of King built a veterans’ memorial on public land in Central Park. The memorial included a Christian flag, and later added a statue of a soldier kneeling before a Cross.

Steven Hewitt, a retired SSgt. who served in Afghanistan as part of the National Guard, and a recipient of the Bronze Star, originally complained about the Christian flag in 2010.  A lawsuit was brought against the City in 2012, where the argument was made that the City was promoting Christianity.

The case was settled in January 2015:
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/01/12/protesters-return-christian-flag-statue-to-veterans-memorial-king-north-carolina-aclu/21639983/

Scott Burdick made a documentary, "In God We Trust?" in 2012.
It's a little over two hours long, but worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucVDpmFz-E

Astute readers will note appearances by the recently departed James Dunn.

There are a lot of good folks in Stokes County, and most of them don't really mean to harm anyone.  I think they have a hard time seeing the coercive nature of their decisions to promote their (inarguably) majority opinion about religion.

Things were probably easier before they incorporated in 1983, as it would have been harder for the ACLU to figure out who to sue, and there would not have been as many lawyers and insurance companies involved.

http://www.ci.king.nc.us/vertical/sites/%7BF66D84C7-020F-42FF-9AB2-093062E31F9B%7D/uploads/Press_Release_010614.pdf

I admire their orneriness, up to a point.  Be better if they could just admit their mistakes and move on.  But change is hard.  Sometimes things go backwards before they move forwards again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ucVDpmFz-E

Comments

  1. Tim O'BrienJuly 31, 2015 at 1:26 PM

    I just finished a spate of reading on the history of NASA and couldn't help noticing how many important events in the history of space exploration happened in places like Alabama and Mississippi and , of course, Florida and Texas. It's not like the South has a shortage of legitimate things to take pride in without dwelling on a lost cause with the most dubious moral justifications.

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  2. Drew McCarthyJuly 31, 2015 at 2:09 PM

    The South has kind of specialized in dubious moral justifications. In life, food, and literature.
    And it ain't all awful, or why else have so many wretched Yankees moved down here?
    Pride in Place and Solidarity in Community are good things. Ignorance and Intolerance are not, but they are ofttimes intertwined more than they ought to be.

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