The wish for South Carolinians to honor and respect their heritage through the display of the 'Stars and Bars' flag is not I issue I would choose to fight. I suggest the NAACP could choose their battles more wisely. Why give credance to the skin head types, who have no real message, and who can hide behind the coat-tails of those flag flyers with a more substaintive arguement?

There is heart felt, legitimate purpose in preserving the symbol by those to whom the flag has meaning. Who am I to insist their conviction is wrong, ignorant, hateful? This flag was never meant to portray a hateful message.

When a man who tells me his cause is racism chooses this flag as his symbol, I am insulted for those to whom the symbol is meaningful. There are those in this world to whom the Cross, the Star of David, the American flag, and even 'one world' symbols are insulting. Do we insist those symbols be struck as well?

Jumping on the "I'm angry at South Carolina because they fly the Stars and Bars - and that's a racist act" band wagon is anything thing but open minded, liberal or progressive thinking. It might be joining the side of an arguement you like, but true liberals would have to weigh the feelings of the pro-flag side, as well. And agree that all sides deserve to be heard - even if you and I would not choose to fly that flag!