Removal of Confederate flag
Mayor Gavin A. Brown
Dear Sir,
As a New Yorker without one Confederate ancestor, I must
strongly oppose the removal of the Confederate flag from in front of
the courthouse.
To begin with, having studied these matters under various
circumstances and in various places at various times, I have decided
that all such actions seldom represent the will of The People of the
town, county or state in which they occur. Indeed, when such matters
appear as a referendum, without fail the people – whites and
minorities – have voted to retain their historical identity.
But if these are not actions based upon the public will, what
are they based upon? Usually they are the result of politically
correct leftist cadres whether of academia (Lexington) or groups
supposedly speaking for "offended" minorities (NAACP, SPLC etc.). And
while both groups have every right to voice their opinion, I do not
remember that they have been given power to negate and nullify the
will of the majority – at least openly. As a result, such actions as
your city has seen fit to take represent a minority viewpoint which
gains its strength not from the People, but from a Marxist inspired
movement called political correctness which becomes ever more powerful
to the point at which Americans may well question the value of their
supposedly constitutionally guaranteed liberties!
People are elected to office to do more than engage in
bureaucratic bean counting or raise money for the next election cycle.
They are put into even the most humble office with the idea that
while there, if and when a crisis arises, they will respond with
courage and honor and not turn tail and run from the specter of the
race card. Therefore, until such time as the citizens of Waynesville
vote in referendum to remove your historic flag, you owe it to them,
your office and yourself to return the flag to its historic home. When
the government becomes the mouthpiece of a minority viewpoint –
whatever that minority might represent – then we no longer have a
representative government, but a tyranny of the few over the many.
Thank you for your courtesy.
Valerie Protopapas
Huntington Station, New York
Huntington Station, New York
