[DoraC]

There's a critical difference between a racist American group appropriating the American flag and the history of the Confederate flag. There were almost 100 years of oppression of blacks by racists who invariably used the Confederate flag

A shame, really. It conceals the fact that many Confederates were vehemently opposed to slavery and that they held themselves to higher ethical standards in treating civilians in the Civil War than the Union forces.

[jude24]

It is a shame. It is not historically accurate to equate the Confederacy with racism (especially since the North was not exactly a beacon of enlightened race-relations itself at the time).

The popular perception of the Confederate flag, however, does equate it with racism, particularly up here in the North and amongst non-whites everywhere. It does not matter whether or not the Confederacy was or was not racist, because, in reality, perception is all the reality that matters.

[When do we get liberated?]

Toured Andersonville lately?