Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 05:45:18 -0500

From: "David A. Johns" djohns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET

Subject: Re: redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc.



At 10:20 PM 10/27/97 +0000, Duane Campbell wrote:



Would the exclusion of these symbols, beloved by the majority, be

tyranny

of the minority?



Excluding them as items of individual expression or as symbols of a

voluntary group would be, in my opinion, with the possible exception

of symbols so inflammatory that they constituted "fighting words" in

an environment where those who found them offensive were a captive

group. Excluding them as majority-imposed symbols of an entire group

would not.



So a Confederate flag on a pickup truck is fine; over the statehouse

or at a college football game isn't, in my opinion.



--

David Johns

Waycross College

Waycross, GA 31501