QOTD (2009-09-12) 12 September 2009

I have nothing to add to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ excellent point:

One of the great tragedies of the past half century or so, is how patriotism has been coopted by people who claim the Confederate flag, while black leaders, from King to Obama, are dismissed as communists/socialists and now Hitlerite. These are people whose heroes routinely flouted the federal government and assaulted black troops carrying the Union flag.

(cross-posted)