We have a local elderly black man that sets up on weekends and sells Confederate flags from the side of the road. Our neighbor is a black pastor and his sons both have Confederate flags for curtains in their rooms and one flying in the yard. It is NOT a symbol of racism. It has been hijacked by skin-heads, KKK, and white supremacists for their evil purposes and has been lied about by the liberal media.
There were black soldiers that fought for the South and most of the Confederate soldiers neither had slaves nor believed in it. My family only got involved after Yankee soldiers burned their farms and destroyed or stole their crops and livestock just because they were Southerners. Most slaves belonged to wealthy politicians and plantation owners, not regular hard working people.
The reason I know this is because my great-grandfather was born in 1865 and lived to be 100. I was able to talk to him about the war when I was a kid. Not many kids can say they talked to somebody that was only one generation removed from the war. I trust his word over any of the revisionist historians of today.
Exactly but try getting those lib morons to wrap their pea brains around that bit of FACTUAL history.
I know my observation is anecdotal, but let's take a highly watched TV show some 30 years ago, "The Dukes of Hazzard". The Dukes car had a huge Confederate flag plastered on the roof. I heard no black person complaining or any complaints from the "civil rights" persons back then.
But even more to the point, I don't remember any black person giving a rat's a** about the Confederate flag until recently -- it was just a flag. So what's changed in under 30 years? Intense indoctrination by the Left.
>>I trust his word over any of the revisionist historians of today.<<
As well you should, and very few people today can say that. We are so far past the War between the States that revisionism by the conquerors rules - it always does. The victors write the history. There are a few books left with the truth in them about Lincoln’s war on civilians, but not many. God bless you, and be sure to document your great-grandfather’s recollections. Pass them on to your descendants.