Thank you Mr. Jacobson for stepping up and tackling that letter published in The Palm Beach Post

The Democrat leader in the Florida Senate, Arthenia Joyner, smacked down The Palm Beach Post editorial board in an epic way for their pitch on the Florida Senate Seal which included the Confederate battle flag, among others. Senator Joyner was successful in having that symbol removed. The Post opined that the Senate Seal was fine just the way it was and shouldn't be changed.

A Letter to the Editor was published on Sunday, November 1st, that was mind-numbing. How this letter even got past the editors is amazing in itself:

The Confederate battle flag is "anti-tyranny"? Weren't the African people brought to America subject to tyranny in the form of slavery? 

This letter disturbed Mr. Jacobson enough that he responded with his own Letter to the Editor and here is what he wrote: 

[Title] Confederate states betrayed the union 

     In his summation, the writer of last Sunday’s letter “Confederate flag is anti-tyranny” states, “For me and many millions of Americans, of many ethnic backgrounds and races, the Confederate battle flag represents rebellion to tyranny.” Is the writer asserting that minorities, especially blacks, should and do see the Confederate flag as something other than a symbol of institutional racism?
     The 13 Southern states that made up the Confederacy ratified the Constitution and acquiesced to the authority of the federal government. The Civil War was fought because the federal government exercised its power to limit the expansion of slavery into the Western territories and, in general, to do away with the practice altogether. Those states, simply put, were traitors.

And so it goes. There remains confusion in the public and the news media about what the Confederate battle flag represents. The battle flag, referred to as the Southern Cross, gets confused with the flag of the Confederacy which is generally referred to as the Stars and Bars. Eliot Kleinberg at the Post explains this quite well.