The Virginia Flaggers have now been on the ground for the past few weeks in Lexington protesting W&L’s decision to remove replica Confederate flags from the chapel and yet we have yet to see a single photograph of a student or alumni on the grounds calling for their return. “Plenty of support” indeed, just not the kind of support that matters.
On second thought, perhaps I misinterpreted their strategy. Perhaps the Virginia Flaggers are taking the long view and are preparing kids like these for admission to W&L. Once admitted they will bring about change from within. Brilliant.
I remember the Confederate flag at Lee chapel when I was a youth. Apparently you have an issue with how residents with a heritage connection want to remember and commemorate their history. I support the flag there and elsewhere, but of course I have ancestral connections to the Confederacy rather than some politically correct, agenda driven interpretation.
At the end of the day, it’s the decision Washington and Lee.
So?
Back in July, the Flaggers and the SCV had said that they were expecting more W&L students when school year started and here we are in October and their presence is still just the folks who are taking the drive to Lexington.
These folks seem to have a lot of free time.
So basically, the VA Flaggers are now a tourist attraction. I submit this as the Epilogue to Confederates in the Attic.
You have to be carefully taught, as Rogers and Hammerstein wrote for South Pacific. I am always irked to see children at any kind of thing like this. I wonder if they even knew what they were being a part of truly.