Time and Place: Running Rebel
December 31, 2008 at 8:22 am by Scott Henry in News
Dec. 24, 2008, 9:45 a.m. at Grant Park
On my way to work, I spotted this guy with a full, white beard, dressed in white warm-ups jogging up Atlanta Avenue carrying a Confederate battle flag. His name is Alan Keck and he lives in Grant Park, although he’s not a native Atlantan. A few years ago, he told me, he got interested in Southern history and realized that the Confederacy had gotten a raw deal in the Civil War. Recently, he said, he’d gotten up the courage to jog with the flag and has even carried it in the Peachtree Road Race.
(Photo by Scott Henry)
December 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
that’s what you guys are going to look like in about ten years, when the south secedes again. happy new year.
December 31st, 2008 at 9:17 am
Jeez!!! Let it go already…
The South lost…
Get over it…
Its already risen again- look at the new development all over the SE- compared to the stagnant growth up north…
January 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
uh i happen to think this picture is awesome. i’m glad to see that there is still some southern people who arent afraid to be proud of their heritage. has nothing to do with the stupid civil war. more of a statement that theres nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. what is fucked up is that people act like everytime that flag is flown means racist shit. do your research and maybe you’ll learn something.. or you could just go on ahead like everybody else and be ignorant. nothings wrong with that dood… ill jog with him