Flag, Etc.

Who created Old Glory, the Red, White, and Blue?  A white person.  Who created the Confederate Flag?  A white person.  Who created the Red, Black, and Green Flag?  A black person; it's the flag of black nationalists and does not include whites or anybody but blacks.  So when we're talking about the Confederate Flag representing racial hatred, what about the black nationalist flag representing racial hatred?  In fact, what about  flags in all countries?  Don't they represent primarily the people with whom the person who created the flag identified?

Except Old Glory.  The United States being a totally interacial society, Old Glory is looked upon by an interacial majority as our flag, and this majority resents anyone disrespecting it.  Consider the tons of blood that drench the soil of the United States and the soil throughout the world in honor of it.

Even expressing our love for Old Glory we have to entertain the view of those throughout the world who don't love Old Glory.  If we're to be able to defend our flag adequately we have to also look at it from the enemy's point of view.  It's like being a writer.  A writer is like an actor, he or she has to get into a character's head, become that charcter.  Hemingway once wrote a story from the perspective of a lion.  Didn't mean that he wanted to be that critter.

On another plane, normally a man thinks:  Why would a man want to be a woman?  If, however, he wants to make a female character believable he has to try to get into a woman's head, see life from a female point of view.  Vice versa, a woman creating a male character probably thinks:  Why would a woman want to be a man?  What about a character who likes to torture and murder people?  Doesn't mean that the writer approves of torturing and murdering people, but he has to try to intellectually become that character.

Back to the flag.  If we can get  into the head of those pro and con about a flag, moving or not moving it might be easier on the ol' ticker.