I just discovered tonight -- alerted by someone else's online posting -- that Amazon has a robust variety of products featuring that vile, racist, seditious, hateful Confederate flag.
I logged into my Amazon account, made it clear that I now regarded the company as merchants of hate, and politely promised them I would not buy anything from their site until they shut this down entirely. I also toled them I was turning to social media to urge others to speak out as well.
Let's send them a wave -- 100,000 similar messages in the next 24 hours. I mean if fawning panderers like Gov Haley and Mitt Romney can come out and say "It's time to put away this flag," then so can Jeff Bezos.
Most of the world has moved past the phoney "Southern pride" thing. I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing that my ancestors who fought in the Army of Northern Virginia had been instead volunteered to help the underground railway and served as Yankee spies.
If the citizens of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan can look at the dark moments in their own history and say "We were wrong," then why can't southern Americans find enough of "the right stuff" to do the same with the stain that American slavery (and the war to defend it) has cast on history and character of the United States.
