Confederate Battle Flag Being Flown at Middle GA's Dodge County Courthouse Sparks NAACP Outcry

Dodge County, GA, commissioners voted in 2002 to fly Confederate Battle Flag one day each year, but it has flown every day since then, near courthouse.

The Confederate flag continues to be a bother to many. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Dodge County commissioners voted this week to fly the Confederate battle flag 365 days a year at the county courthouse. Why? That isn't the state flag, so continue to foment an already festering wound for many who view the flag as a reminder of slavery of blacks? According to the Augusta Chronicle, the Confederate battle flag flies Wednesday next to a memorial to Confederate war dead near the Dodge County Courthouse, in the background, in Eastman.

“We’ve been battling this for some time, trying to resolve it without going outside the county,” said John Battle, president of the Dodge County branch of the NAACP, which he said has repeatedly asked the county to remove the flag.

“We don’t have any heartburn about the Confederate flag itself, but we have heartburn because it’s up there on the public property,” he told The Macon Telegraph newspaper.

The Confederacy never stood for anything good in the lives of blacks. It is a constant reminder of the darkest days in America's history where people of color treated like sh*t for no other reason but the color of their skin. Where the measure of a black man was wasn't based on taking care of one's family, but to be a subservient on all fronts. The fact that the commission voted to fly the flag on one day but have flown it everyday since 2002, is proof that they don't care one iota how some residents in their county feel about the flag and what it represented for them.