But because apologies are so fraught with that ickiness, people, as a whole, are terrible at them. Like anything else, there are good and bad versions of apologies; if we’re going to take a deep breath, confront our fear of shame, and actually make one, we ought to do it right. In 1985, Tom Petty did a concert tour for his album Southern Accents whose stage design featured a huge Confederate battle flag. Years later, after many people had pointed out to him what that flag represents, he said this in Rolling Stone: The Confederate flag was the wallpaper of the South when I was a kid growing up
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