The ‘Southern Avenger’ Repents: I Was Wrong About the Confederate Flag
MEA CULPA
States’ rights? Heritage? I was wrong: The Confederate flag has always been about race.
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As a Charleston, South Carolina-based conservative radio personality known as the “Southern Avenger,” I spent a decade defending the Confederate flag that is yet again the center of so much controversy.
I said the flag was about states’ rights. I said it stood for self-determination. I said it honored heritage.
I argued the Confederate flag wasn’t about race. I believed it. Millions of well-meaning Southerners believe it too.
