Tag: Confederate flag

As America’s politics and mood change, there’s a call to end the cultural myths of the American South.

In Barack Obama, one sees a leader who is using the last months of his term in office to demonstrate the sort of international responsibility that was totally alien to his predecessor.

The gesture and its necessity can be perplexing for Canadians.

Protests against flying the Confederate flag in South Carolina's state capitol

No amount of rhetoric about freedom, justice, equal opportunity or civil rights legislation will help to erase racism.

The flag is offensive. The decision to support or reject it has upset various politicians, especially in the Republican Party.

The black and white middle class are the same in that they isolate themselves from the misery of the black underclass.

The flag is yet to disappear from the American street view. It can still regularly be found on bumper stickers, coat sleeves, T-shirts and belt buckles.

Despite his blunt talk, the President is just as guilty as everyone else of turning a blind eye and wishing those problems away.