We Are Covington High

This photo was taken at a Covington High basketball game.

A Catholic high school in Kentucky.

This racist behavior is not protected by the 1st Amendment.

Neither is author Shelby Foote's waxing about the Confederate Army in Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR.

Nor Donald Trump's inviting the Covington High students who were mocking a native American to the White House.

Sadly Dixie is bigger than ever.

Two years ago I was in Catskill, New York. A rebel flag was plastered on a pick-up truck. I wrote on a piece of paper, "We burned Dixie once and we will burn it again."

I went into the bar at the New York restaurant and five minutes later an irate fat white man enters with the piece of paper.

"Some piece of____"

I stood up and stopped in tirade mid-sentence.

"My family fought in the Civil War. The people from around here did the same. There's a statue in the cemetery on the hill here with a Yankee soldier facing south. You want to disrespect him at home fine and good, but in public shut your hole."

I'm a mean old man, but so were those soldier from the North.

Tougher even still were the freed slaves hankering for revenge.

Fuck the KKK.