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Southerners are not equivalent to Nazis by any stretch of the imagination, but evil people twisted and tainted whatever the battle flag once nobly embodied, just as they did to the swastika.

Beg to differ...the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia did not represent genocide...besides, the KKK also totes around the cross and American flag. Does that mean you believe these symbols have been "twisted and tainted" as well?

Racism and slavery now are inextricably interwoven into the battle flag's fabric

So are ignorance and contrived hatred.

14 posted on 07/31/2007 10:53:08 AM PDT by meandog (Bush's name now synonymous with every bad word known.)

Haven’t I read somewhere that Nathan Bedford Forrest started the KKK as simply a social club? Or was I hallucinating?

18 posted on 07/31/2007 11:07:04 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)

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