Editor:

Allow Confederate flag and leave statues alone (Reading Eagle, July 21) contains several absurd assertions. It states that to blame the Souths banner for slavery is a perversion of political correctness and contends that the same applies to the removal of Confederate statues. If thats the case, then why has the conservative Mississippi Legislature finally voted to take the stars and bars off of their state flag?

The letter also states that NASCARs decision to ban the Confederate flag is akin to burning books. Thats hogwash. No one is advocating burning books. Confederate symbols belong in libraries and museums so people can study them and, as the letter writer correctly says, so that the negatives are not repeated. However, these symbols of hate should not be honored and displayed in public places.

Those who express displeasure over the public display of Confederate flags and statues are accused of wanting to suppress history. However, those who defend these symbols are trying to rewrite history. News flash: the Southern states lost. The Confederacy was an enemy of the United States and was defeated in war. Those behind it should be remembered, but certainly not honored.

Michael P. Pardo

Lower Alsace Township

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