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Confederate flag removal was long over due
Editor: My wife and I followed with great interest the story about South Carolina permanently taking the Confederate flag from outside the State House.
You see in the early days of intergration- 1968 - we moved to the south, Chattanooga Tenn, to work.
We really were naive Candians (we thought a sign that read "whites only" in a laundromate meant white clothing only)
This was early days in the time of busing black students to white schools to force intergration.
Brainerd is a middle-class at the time exclusively white nieghbourhood of Chattanooga. The newly intergrated bused in black students at Brainder High School objected to the school fight song "Dixie"and the school's symbol, the Confederate flag.
The school board therfore voted to ban both of these. On the Friday night after the vote my wife and I deove to Brainerd to see if anything was going on. Sure enough the streeets were full of cars full of white students driving around singing "Dixie" at the top of their lunds and waving Confederate flags out of the car windows.
We also decided to go to a football game at Brainerd the following day.
Brainerd was playing a team from mlong intergrated Notre Dame Catholic High School.
At the half time the Brainerd students predictably burst into a chourus of "Dixie"
We will never forget what happpened next. All the Notre Dame students filed down onto the field stood in front of the Brainerd students and looked up at them and sang "America the Beautiful".
Now 47 years later South Carolina has finally removed the flag. We are left wondering why it took them so long.
Barry Whaites
