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And the other irony is how only black slavery led to the epic ongoing misery suffered by Afro Americans who's ancestors without migrating to America, were brutally imported to a country as workhorses, now hated and being coerced to vacate the land they helped build. And that is regardless of any self-hating black persons involved.
If the Confederate flag is about southern heritage:
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As a resident of Georgia, Thompson supported the Confederacy and its cause during the American Civil War.[1] In 1863, as the editor of the Savannah Morning News he proposed a design that would ultimately become the Confederacy's second national flag, which would be come to known as the "Stainless Banner."[2][3][7][8]
In a series of editorials, Thompson argued:
As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.[4]… Such a flag…would soon take rank among the proudest ensigns of the nations, and be hailed by the civilized world as THE WHITE MAN'S FLAG.[5]… As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism. Another merit in the new flag is, that it bears no resemblance to the now infamous banner of the Yankee vandals.[6]
After the American Civil War ended and slavery was abolished in the U.S., Thompson, as a fervent supporter of the Democrats, opposed the Republican Party's efforts in southern U.S. states, as well as opposing the granting of civil rights to African Americans and freed slaves.
The white rectangle symbolizes the "supremacy of the white man," according to William T. Thompson, the flag's designer. "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race," Thompson wrote.
Do you know there is a population, called "slaves" because they were the first slaves : they are actually in Russia, Ukrain, Poland, Bulgaria, etc...
Uh, no.
The first peoples on the planet were African people. We know what slaves are; they are people taken against their will and owned by the taker, commanded to do as they wished.
Slavery under that context is as old as humankind. The Slavs simply didn't exist at the time.
Slavs is not pronounced the same as slaves, but Slavs were enslaved for humdreds of years. They were enslaved by the Romans/Greeks, Ottoman Turks, Tatars, Persians, Arabs, and even Western Europeans. The slavery only ended in 1783 when Russia annexed Crimea, and stopped the Tatar raids.
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