You've probably heard that the "wonderful" state of Mississippi had a vote yesterday to rid their flag of the Confederate Flag symbol. The vote lost and the symbol will remain. I know that I have no say in the matter, being a white boy from the Northeast, but what was the fuss all about? I heard people speaking of the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery. They equated the symbol to the Swaztika (spelling?) used by Nazi Germany. I hardly feel that the correlation is accurate, since the Confederate flag stood for a proud group of Americans who offered many positive aspects to our great history. The flag did not stand for the heinous act of slavery, nor for the Ku Klux Klan, and certainly not for the subsiquent lynch mobs. Yes, the latter two groups may have used the flag as some sort of statement, but that does not erase the many good things that the South accomplished and added to our Nation. I must admit that I really don't care what the state flag of Mississippi is, but I do care about all the over-reaction about such trivial things. Somehow I feel that the more people fight over the mundane, the more it de-sensitizes the nation over the real issue at hand which is racism.