Yes, there is history of slavery throughout the U.S. A history everyone needs to know and understand. That is different from the Confederacy, the confederate flag and statues. While the nation has moved on, those flying the Confederate flag, often alongside the Nazi flag, promote hate, bigotry, racism, White supremacy, and violence that is simply wrong. It is inseparable from those that lamely say it is a matter of culture. Sorry, that’s a poor excuse and ignorant. Defending it all on claim that next will be our founding fathers, our national flag, our national identity is ludicrous and won’t happen.
We’ll see...
Yeah good luck with that. It may make you feel better but yours is a difference without much distinction when it comes to slavery and ‘racism’. The whole argument is that the Confederacy and it heroes were slave holding racist and therefore these statues must be removed. So were many of our founders.
I disagree with flying the Nazi flag at rallys. I completely disagree with you on everything else. The flag a part of their culture, it took many years for the South to recover from the civil war. It is part of their psyche. No one has the right to say they cannot fly their flag.The civil war was more than slavery, it was the south rebelling against the north on economic issues. We see it today, now the north is the lib states that shove their beliefs on the rest of the country, and call us racist when we don’t agree with them.
The left is calling for it. It isn’t a joke. Statues are being vandalized by mobs! The Lincoln Memorial was vandalized.