[Magdalen] Enjoying a colleague's accent

[Grace Cangialosi]

You got it, Allen. And there was more than one southern state that included the battle flag as part of their state flag until fairly recently. A. Carolina may have been the last. Then they got the compromise of flying it on the capitol grounds as an artifact of their history.

Around here the flag indicates hatred and bigotry. I get a clutch in my stomach every time I see it. A few years ago I was having some windows put in, and one young man showed up wearing a bandana of the flag. I told him he would have to remove it before he came in my house. He did.

> On Jun 20, 2015, at 1:32 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Seeing a photo of what I've now learned was the Confederate battle flag
> flying over the state capital in South Carolina reminded me that
> I've casually wondered, ever since coming from Canada 70 years ago, why a
> flag with what looks like a St Andrew's cross was called the stars and bars.
> 
> So, I looked it up. I don't think I'd ever seen pictures of actual
> confederate flags before, which actually do have bars.
> 
> So in South Carolina they still fly a flag that was actually a battle flag,
> apparently symbolizing the Civil War is actually not yet over?
> 
> 
> On Friday, June 19, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> This reminds me that I have wondered why the name for the French
>> speakers in Belgium
> 
> -- 
> Allan Carr