Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida – 1954

caleb — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:07:31 +0000

Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida – 1954, originally uploaded by vieilles_annonces.

Doesn’t look all that different, 54 years later.

Tampa Confederate Flag Antidote– Call to Artists

caleb — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:11:51 +0000

There is a pretty good argument to be made that in terms of numbers of deaths and long term social repercussions all over the globe, as well as the misery inflicted over many generations and hundreds of years on millions of people the peculiar institution over which the southern confederacy explicitly seceded was an even greater horror than the European Holocaust of the mid-20th century. And that’s sayin’ something, pal. If this is the case, then displaying with pride a flag of the defenders of African enslavement is more despicable than the flying of, say, oh, I dunno, the black-on-red swastika, for instance.

I have seen plenty of condemnation of the flying of the ConBat flag over Tampa, but little attempt at an antidote for this poisoning of the local atmosphere. Via the Seminole Heights blog, I found this call to artists at the Alley Cats Players blog. Good on them!

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Palm of Dunedin, North of Clearwater, Florida – 1954

Tampa Confederate Flag Antidote– Call to Artists