Disrespecting a symbol of slavery and treason?

I love these kinds of stories.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- When artist John Sims sees the Confederate flag, he sees ''visual terrorism,'' and a symbol of a racist past. When Robert Hurst sees the flag, he is filled with pride as the descendant of a soldier who fought for the South during the Civil War.

Their differences have flared into a war of words, catching a local museum in the middle.

Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science this past week and saw an exhibit by Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled ''The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.''

Hurst asked the museum to remove the display, along with 13 other pieces by Sims.

The museum, however, announced Friday it is standing by Sims' work, on display since Feb. 26, because it wants to inspire dialogue in the community about a symbol that engenders a diversity of strong responses.

Can we call these people what they are: Sons of former traitors and users of labor for which they did not want to pay who were, by the way, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands Americans?

Responding to Georgia's move to declare April "Confederate Heritage Month," Erik throws the crackers into the horse trough:

The bill's sponsor State Senator Jeff Mullis wants to honor "all those millions of its citizens of various races and ethnic groups and religions who contributed in sundry and myriad ways to the cause of Southern Independence." Meaning those millions, of whom approximately 3 were not white, who tore the country in two in order that they could enslave black people. These treasonous Confederates are clearly worth honoring. After all, not only did they leave the union in order to rape and kill blacks with impunity, tear their families apart, and take their labor for nothing, but they also caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans! Go Confederacy!