Talk:Flag of Florida
From Academic Kids
this suffers from an excessively defensive tone
I improved the article a bit. The flag as it stands was approved by the voters in 1900. It seems Gov. Fleming was instumental in this, but the article makes it seem like he was solely responsible. I tried to improve the PoV in the article. Dominick 14:14, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I am deeply troubled by Dominick's attempt to cover-up the vile and racist record of Francis P. Fleming. I am going to assume good faith that you did not know one of Fleming's first acts as Governor of Florida was to rollback voting rights for African-Americans, signing into law poll taxes and literacy tests. Furthermore, Fleming had Florida's only African-American judge (James Dean of Monroe County) removed from the bench for the high crime of marrying a white man to a black woman. Fleming was a segregationist, and this should be noted in the Flag of Florida article, or if you do not wish to call him a segregationist, maybe we should cite his record as Governor instead. --H. CHENEY 02:43, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- That is true, however, the flag has nothing to do with that. Since there are other historical basis for the red Saltire, and the reason given for the change is plausable, we should take the historical record at it's word. All I removed is the word segregationist, because it was not germaine to the flag, per se. Not all Cross Saltaire are racist emblems, for example St. Andrew's flag. Dominick 07:02, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Considering the history of Florida, and the political climate at the time, I don't think this was a Scottish influence. This was very clearly a symbol of longing for the antebellum South, racial divisions and all. I agree, we should try to accept their overt reasoning for adopting the flag. However, we also have a duty to report what the undertones were. --H. CHENEY 18:02, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
