true enough; and I do not take this as a criticism.  It is a valid
obsservation.  But of course,  my point, in its context was in response
to the assertion by a professor at James Madison univ. that southern
whites rejected (at least in public) any racism and that those who used
the flag had not racist intent; my point was that many people who have
the flag on their trucks or elsewhere are racists and it is intended
tobe a racist symbol, just as it was in the 1950s when the southern
states added it to their flags to protest integration.  [I see now I am
being pulled back into this discussion, alas].

Judy Baugh wrote:

>From: Paul Finkelman
>
>Subject: Re: Debate Topic, Confederate Flag
>
>I never saw the truck
>of the two men who dragged a black man to death in Texas a few years
>ago, but I would not be totally surprised to see the Confederate Flag on
>the back of that truck.
>
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>Nor would it be totally surprising to see Confederate iconography on the vehicles of most of the Jasper, TX residents who served on the jury which convicted John William King of the murder of James Byrd Jr.  That's *not* a criticism, merely an observation based upon personal familiarity with the region.
>
>Rgds.,
>Judy Baugh
>Austin, TX
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