[Magdalen] Whoops. We've got the Southern slavers' battle flag in the National Cathedral.

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Sally Davies

>Noooo!

>It is history and when displayed in such a way, serves to commemorate that
>which was honorable and brave, not that which was dishonourable.

I suppose that the South Africa equivalent would be celebrating those brave 
people who kept Apartheid in place.' Are such symbols celebrated and revered in 
as heritage South Africa?

That would be more akin the the Confederate flag in the U.S.

Keep in mind that the current use of the Confederate Flag was new in the late 
1950s as a symbol of "Massive Resistance" to the Supreme Court's Brown vs Board 
of Education decision which required school desegregation. Save for the Ku Klux 
Klan, it resided mostly in museums from the end of the Civil War until the Brown 
Decision. Although the painful symbol of slavery for many, it is much more the 
symbol of our version of Apartheid -- Jim Crow.

Cheers,
Jim