However, one should know that the Confederate flag represents to most blacks, and many others, lynching, slavery, separation of black families, rape, Jim Crow, intimidation, suffering, etc. The same groups that have appeared in Lake City for the last 10 years, regaled in white robes and draped in Confederate flags. The irony of all this is that the Battle of Olustee was not fought in Lake City, not even in Columbia County, but in the town of Olustee, Baker County, Florida. It is highly offensive to me for Lake City to collect my money and spend it on logos that are placed on city vehicles, stationery, etc., to openly insult and degrade me. The agreement also resulted in paved streets and sidewalks, street lights, sewer lines and drainage.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
When you know black history, you know that there is nothing in the past of blacks more shameful than what is found in the past of other races. With the domestication of animals, the discovery of iron, the development of stringed instruments, advancement in fine art, the inauguration of trial by jury and many other creations and inventions to their credit, blacks are just as high as others in contributing to the progress of the world. The oppressor, however, raises his voice to the contrary. He teaches blacks that they have no worthwhile past, that his race has done nothing significant since the beginning of time. The mis-educated Negro insidiously joins the oppressors in an attempt to induce the Willy Lynch Theory, to guide blacks in the direction of serving the purposes of their traducers, to keep us in our place.