re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

I'm reading where people are saying things like "now they will want to tear down monuments to soldiers" and what not. I don't think so. It's not like where people in Poland were knocking down statues of Lenin after the Red Army leaves.

We didn't have governors and legislatures in the 1960s using soldiers' monuments as props for the defense of Segregation and Jim Crow. I've not seen the Klan or other extremists making a big deal out of a monument to the dead of some TN Infantry regiment at Shiloh.

Just a whole different dynamic going on with the flag. They should have kept the flag out of it in the 1960s if they didn't want it to be linked with contemporary opposition to civil rights and equality for all citizens.