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The racists didn't embrace that flag until 100 years after the Civil War ended.
In fact the KKK first used the US Flag before usurping the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia.
Except for one thing. The USA did not seek to secede from Britain over slavery. The American Revolution was about the taxes from the British monarchy. The Confederate cause, on the other hand, slavery was a major part of it. There is proof in the Articles of Secession.
Honestly, this is how I see it. I don't buy the "it was about states' rights, not slavery" argument because I just showed you evidence of the opposite. If one has knowledge of that, then there is no excuse after that. I have to assume if said person knows that and still flies the flag, what else to do gather from that?
but maybe they just agree with the state rights part and not the slavery part.
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Originally Posted by green_mariner
If this was about "redneck" and "southern pride", why pick a flag that represents a now-vanquished nation that seceded because it desired to badly to keep slavery around?
Idk why the picked it either but that is just what they use and have been using for a long time now.
The Confederate flag is suddenly a symbol of intolerable revulsion. This is long overdue. It is a repulsive symbol of the foundational basis for the Conservative ideology, and the country is unified in destroying and eliminating it from existence.
The political meaning is far more ominous for REPUBLICANS. As the Confederate flag goes, so does the GOP.
This sounds like the same rhetoric you'd hear from ISIS.
Why does it seem that the chip on the shoulder of the black community keeps getting larger and larger? The next thing will be that the Confederate flag is to blame for all of their current problems, and that until all of those flags are destroyed, the problems of the black people will remain, like broken families and not doing well in school. As far as I am concerned, what black people are good at is complaining and putting the blame on everybody else. Would that I could go back in time and not let any slaves at all be brought to America. What a different America it would be today.
They are going to see more confederate flags flying now than they ever saw before. The pot has been stirred.
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