{"id":13243,"date":"2015-07-18T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2015-07-18T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T03:41:06","slug":"i-know-are-true-71815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/18\/i-know-are-true-71815\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;I KNOW are true!&#8221; (7\/18\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It makes me feel good to say things that are true. If people get uncomfortable after hearing the truth, that&#8217;s even better. Let&#8217;s spread some truth about the Confederate flag issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a Big Board on the way out because&#8230; &#8220;These seven things I <strong>KNOW<\/strong> are true&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Confederate Flag controversy is embarrassing to Danville&#8217;s image and reputation.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Danville&#8217;s recent publicized struggle against governmental red tape to get construction permits for the Berry Hill MegaPark was in the regional news and has been picked up by national news outlets. Screw that, now. We&#8217;re the city that is still flying the Confederate flag on government property and there is a strong divide between flag supporters &amp; opponents. Even worse, this is now the second time in less than a year that the issue has started to boil over. In today&#8217;s world of economic development, image factors in a lot. I&#8217;m not saying that companies have not chosen to locate in Danville because of the flag issue, but any company&#8217;s due diligence will easily discover the flag controversy and how deep the divide is. It may not hurt the economic development process, but it sure doesn&#8217;t help it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The flag opponents&#8217; position should be weakened because the flag in question is not the well-known Confederate battle flag.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; The flag on the monument is the Third National Flag of the Confederacy and was only adopted in the end days of the Confederacy. It&#8217;s not the &#8220;Stars And Bars&#8221; and I can&#8217;t remember when this specific flag has ever been corrupted by any hate-mongering group. There&#8217;s been a few logical and rational people on the supporters&#8217; side who have attempted to point that out as they stress the &#8220;history&#8221; side of the issue, but those logical and rational people have been drowned out by the rest of the flag supporters. As for the flag opponents? None of them has even acknowledged the difference between the flags&#8230; and they&#8217;re not going to talk about that because they know that would weaken their argument.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Danville&#8217;s Confederate flag issue is about one specific thing&#8230; &#8220;Should the Confederate flag fly on government-owned property or not?&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; If your position on the issue includes the phrase &#8220;If ____ happens, what will happen next?&#8221;, you&#8217;re using a slippery slope logical fallacy and your argument quickly starts to fall apart. By the way, that goes for both sides. This isn&#8217;t &#8220;Cultural Genocide&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;Should the Confederate flag fly on government-owned property or not?&#8221; Nothing more than that, people. I will always support and defend anyone&#8217;s ability to fly whatever flag you want on your own private property, so don&#8217;t even start with the &#8220;First, they came after the _____s.&#8221; litany.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m ashamed of people who fail to respect others&#8217; right to protest peacefully.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; As long as you play by the rules and follow the laws, the right to express your opinion should be respected by everybody. Personally, I&#8217;ve written articles mocking and condemning the basis of some protests here in Danville (like &#8220;Robert Hurt is trying to eliminate Social Security&#8221; type of stuff), but I&#8217;ve never condemned the right of the people to take a stupid opinion and tell others about it. I never will. If you&#8217;re peaceful, calm and rational, you deserve the chance to have your viewpoint heard. And that&#8217;s even if your viewpoint is asinine. Heh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Both sides of the flag arguments lose their credibility when the most rabid members spout their insanity.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; No, black people aren&#8217;t going to be in trouble if Buddy Rawley or Lee Vogler get re-elected. No, Danville won&#8217;t lose most of their tourism money (of what little they&#8217;re getting now) if the flag is put into the museum. If the flag supporters were solely represented by Steve Adkins and the flag opponents were solely represented by Barry Koplen, both sides of the debate would be one hell of a lot more credible instantly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Larry Campbell has not been physically threatened.&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Larry Campbell is the Grand Champion of the &#8220;Words Have Meanings&#8221; game. At the last Danville City Council meeting, Campbell took the floor to talk about a potential &#8220;doxxing&#8221; threat against him and two other people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/08\/breakdown-the-threat-to-larry-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\">I talked with the state police and then published an analysis of what the threat actually was<\/a>. There was no physical threat at all. Campbell has gone on record saying he&#8217;s concerned about his &amp; his family&#8217;s safety but when you read that carefully, you&#8217;ll see that&#8217;s a very generic statement. I&#8217;m always concerned about my &amp; my family&#8217;s safety, and so is everybody else. No other media source has asked Campbell directly about any physical threats and sadly, people just assume that physical threats were made. Folks, there&#8217;s a reason that Larry Campbell doesn&#8217;t have a police security detail following him around. Sometimes it&#8217;s not what you say, it&#8217;s what you don&#8217;t say.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew. That&#8217;s enough for now. Oh yeah, <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m finished with this article.&#8221;<\/strong> That completes the seven things that I KNOW are true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes me feel good to say things that are true. If people get uncomfortable after hearing the truth, that&#8217;s even better. 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With all of the recent confederate flag controversy, it's time for everybody to see that people on both sides of the issue can do excellent things for the community. 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