Lexington mayor issues open invitation to every crazed White supremacist in the country. Bad idea. #Racism #

From my article at Intellectual Takeout yesterday:

Okay, so the last time someone took down a Confederate monument, hundreds of racists showed up and precipitated a violent class with anti-racist demonstrators some of whom unwisely brought weapons themselves. The result was someone dying. 

Now you're the major of an arguably Southern town, and what do you do? You announce to the country that you're going to take down a Confederate monument. 

Yeah. That'll calm everybody down.

Read the rest here.

Is the American flag offensive?

Cutia Bacon Brown argues in Friday's Louisville Courier-Journal that the Confederate Flag is a "symbol of racism," presumably because it has been used by racist groups as a symbol, and therefore it is offensive. Trouble is, the American flag is used all the time by white supremacist groups as a symbol. So why shouldn't the American flag be considered offensive on the same grounds?