Confederate Activist Claims It’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ To Remove Symbol From Mississippi Flag

By Andrew Bradford on October 12, 2015

Categories: Discrimination, Mississippi, WTF?

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Craig Haden: Screenshot Via WBLT



In my line of work, you run across more than your fair share of WTF?! stories from time to time, but this one may just jump to the top of my list.

Craig Haden is your typical supporter of the Confederate flag, which remains part of the state flag in Mississippi. And he decided to show up and counterprotest at a “Take It Down March Rally” in Jackson, which drew about 400 people who think it’s way past time for this symbol of hate to be banished from their flag.

Before I return my focus to Mr. Haden, allow me to tell you a bit more about the rally: Republican state Representative Jenny Horne of South Carolina told the crowd:

“It is a new South. The economic development opportunities that Mississippi is missing out on — you don’t even know it, but it’s costing all citizens jobs.”

Also, Civil Rights Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams compared the gathered marchers to activists who fought for equal rights the 1960s:

“I look at you today I see strength. I see courage. I see determination.”

But Craig Haden would have no part of changing the flag, and his reasoning was, as you might expect, more than a little confusing to the average person. Haden explained why taking the Confederate flag symbol off the Mississippi flag would be anti-Semitic:

“If they’re offended I question their motivations because the blue in the Confederate battle flag represents St. Andrew who was an apostle of Jesus Christ and he was Jewish and makes me wonder if they’re anti-Semitic.”



Feel free to go back and read that quote again, see if it makes more sense the second time. Because I cannot make heads or tails of it. It’s fine for Haden to have a contrary opinion on the issue, but to chalk it up to anti-Semitism is the height of both lack of comprehension and twisted logic. If that is his defense of the Confederate flag, he loses the debate by default.

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  • connerc

    Scary thing is he didn’t think that up himself.

    • Mary Goodson

      Yup. He’s just aping some stupid thing someone he thinks is “smart” said. Sigh.

  • Otto Greif

    The CSA Secretary of State was a Jew.

    • http://deepleftfield.info Andrew Bradford

      And your point would be…..what? You are defending this guy?

    • john doe

      Irrelevant.

      • Otto Greif

        A lot of Jews were involved in the slave trade.

        • http://leftsideannie.wordpress.com/ Leftside_Annie

          And that is relevant……. why?

          • Otto Greif

            It’s historical context.

        • Chris

          A lot of ignorant Southerners were involved in the slave trade.

        • Gabriel

          A lot of black Africans were involved in the slave trade.

        • Ron

          Studies I’ve read seem to indicate that at most, between 1.25%-1.5% of slave owners were Jewish — correct on Judah Benjamin who was Sec of State for the last three years of the war — but what does any of that have to do with the article?

          • Otto Greif

            How many Jews do you think were over here?

        • Augure3VI

          Considering that most those in the slave trade were Christians and as anti-semitic as they were racist, I’m sure the Jewish ones had to hide their heritage.

          • Otto Greif

            The South wasn’t anti-Semitic, the North was.

            • Augure3VI

              Jews weren’t highly respected anywhere in the US at the time.

            • Otto Greif

              Before he was Confederate Secretary of State, Judah Benjamin was a state legislator, a Senator, and he turned down a seat on the Supreme Court.

    • Chris

      There were a lot of Ottos in the German army who killed good Americans.

      • Otto Greif

        When did Germany invade America? I must have missed that.

        • Chris

          Never said that, O Dim One.

        • Chris

          My argument was as apropos as yours was.

  • jWd

    Typical uneducated uninformed hillrod wrapped in their hate flag

  • http://leftsideannie.wordpress.com/ Leftside_Annie

    Um…whut??

  • Chris

    Let’s emulate Trump for once.

    “Mr. Haden, where is your middle school transcript?”

  • Richard Head

    He’s just mad because his sister didn’t let him have any last night.

  • Bill Gibbs

    Saint Andrew’s cross is a white saltire cross on a blue field, not a blue cross.

  • Gabriel

    There’s a somewhat better argument for this: The saltire was chosen over an earlier proposal for the battle flag to employ an upright St. George’s cross as it was thought the latter might be offensive to the Jewish population of Richmond — a group valued for their devotion to the Confederate cause.

  • Nancy Chandler

    Stupid is Stupid does…………

  • Perry W

    He’s just an average teabagger…

  • Rich Bolden

    The KKK lynched a Jewish factory owner. I think early 1900’s in Georgia

  • Chaz

    One problem. I am a liberal Southerner (we do exist, same as in Texas) and making fun of the sadly deranged is only funny to one side. Maybe because I see it as a Lib and a Southerner, which means, both combined, about 100% of the time. I get the chance to laugh and be offended at the same time. I’ve been trying to remember that when I’m commenting. If I just want to state my case so even those who disagree will at least read the entire thought, I think it helps to keep that in mind. Then again, sometimes GFY is a reasonable response.

  • Alton Ramage

    Well hmmm, All I can say is the battle flag of ANV is a Jewish inspired flag. This is well documented, but a very little known fact. William P. Miles who was on the committee for the Confederate flags changed his design, due to his good friend Charles Moise. He was a Jewish Southerner from S. C. and wrote a letter to Miles. Moise liked the design, but asked that “the symbol of a particular religion not be made the symbol of the nation”. William P Miles then redesigned the battle flag, and that is what we have today. Side note up to 10,000 Jews fought for the South.

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