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The vast majority of African-Americans, regardless of where they live, have southern roots. A majority of America's African-American population lives in the South. Most African-Americans view the Confederate flag (and anything honoring Confederates) as a symbol of racism. Ever ask why that is? And come up with something more truthful than "Blacks are brainwashed" or "it's about victimhood". Those two talking points are disingenuous and a cop out.
I’m European American and I fly that pretty flag alongside my U.S. flag and don’t care what anyone else thinks about it. I consider anything BLM a symbol of racism. To each his own.
My point was this. You said you didn't pay attention. I don't understand how that would be. Whether you were ra ra or not, your school seal was somewhere and you'd see it at some time in your high school years. Even if you barely knew what the mascot was, you had to have heard about it. You mentioned your diploma had a Confederate flag on it. That tells me your high school mascot was likely the Rebel. Mine was not. Mine did not have a Confederate flag on it. My high school mascot had nothing to do with the Confederacy. Neither did the school seal. And I went to school in Georgia.
My HS mascot was the Rebel. The band played Dixie at football games.
I hated my high school, and went to a vo-tech my senior year.
Its sort of weird. The confederacy lasted a very short period, but there is a huge pro-confederacy thing going on. And its not even the ideals of the confederacy, its more of a .....this is us, we're seperate....but not quite thing.
And its not a racism thing like many accuse yall of. I mean...yes it absolutely 100% is for some folks, but its not for the majority.
No, the majority of people who know history know the point for setting up a confederacy was very much about race. It was about southern states' rights to protect and keep slavery of blacks.
I’m European American and I fly that pretty flag alongside my U.S. flag and don’t care what anyone else thinks about it. I consider anything BLM a symbol of racism. To each his own.
Well, flying the Confederate flag tells me that you aren't any better than the BLM that you're against.
Not from the south are you? You would have to be from the south to understand it. Seriously.
Also having the nickname Rebels and singing a song about the south isn't "supporting the confederacy". I love hearing Dixie being played, its one of my ringtones on my phone, I sing it whenever I hear it being played. Its a southern heritage thing, much like the National Anthem may bring some folks to tears or make their heart beat faster Dixie does the same for me and MILLIONS of southerners.
I am a southerner, my family goes way back, and I don' get it. They were traitors who lost while trying to establish a slave society. Their four years of treason cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men and an estimated 50,000 civilians. It took 100 years to recover and we are still in VA finding live ordnance; a man was blown to bits about 10 years ago from one.
It might be fun to romanticize it, but its not reality and it certainly is spitting on those who were slaves and their decendents.
Just a general question for anyone who lives in the south or who has lived there for at least six months within the last few years:
Are a great many white people in the South still "fighting the Civil War"?
They were still doing that, it seemed to me, when I lived in Montgomery, Alabama for eight months in 1973, (To a Yankee like me, it seemed like eight YEARS in hell.) Overt racism was very much on display (not "just" subtle racism). I could give you a half-dozen examples, but I would think that things would have changed in the past 47 years. Maybe not.
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