seriously.. if you have a problem about slavery, then you may want to actually read a bit more history... and some current events. Back then, slaves were used, not only in the US, but around the world. The US was not the first, nor the last, country to use slaves. And all slaves are/were not black.
Slavery persists to this day, although not as openly, in many asian countries. in the middle east, the contracts used with the TCNs might as well be slavery. working conditions in China would many would compare with slavery.
personally, if the sight of the rebel flag pisses off the liberals, i'm all for it... since just about everything they do pisses me off. if it upsets some blacks, well, sorry about that. I'm a Scot. If we can handle the sight of the union jack, you can handle the rebel flag.
Nice screed, but irrelevant. The flag of the United States is not a flag of a nation that was formed for the exprtess purpose of maintaining slavery. teh Confederate battle flag is not only a flag of a nation formed for the express purpsoe of maintaining slavery... it was for a military that launched an aggressive war against the United States.
> I'm a Scot. If we can handle the sight of the union jack, you can handle the rebel flag.
Is the Union Jack the flag of a failed nation that was beaten and done away with? No. It's the flag of an extant nation.
A closer analog would be to ask a Korean "comfort woman" her opinion of an Imperial Japanese "rising sun" flag.