The reality of the Antebellum South:
It’s an internet rule, the first invocation of Nazis in any debate is an automatic loss.
Slavery is evil. No one is even trying to debate that, (ok, no one sane). The Confederate flag isn’t about slavery. It’s about regionalism, and heritage, that’s not bad. To someone in the south, the Confederate flag represents where they are from, it represents self reliance, and a distinct southern sensiblity.
Leonard, it’s time to move on. No one alive in America was a slave. Not everything is about racism. A noose is not just a symbol of race motivated lynchings. Lynchings happened to more than just blacks.
If a southerner wants to remember the good parts of the past, southern determination... let them. If they advocate slavery, then you have a complaint. By the way Leonard, it’s the Black community that now pushes segregation. How is it that if the Black community wants it, it’s ok? But if Whites wanted it, it’s bad? Leonard, you may have recto-crainial inversion.
After the war many former slaves returned to work for their former owners ......... so in my mind slavery couldn’t have been that evil. There evidently was some owners who didn’t abuse their slaves.