That new creation needs to buried...
Ansel, trust me when I tell you that the negative reaction most blacks have to the Confederate battle flag isn't something new. The roots of that reaction stretch back beyond living memory.
Like most black people, my family has origins in the Deep South. I didn't grow up there, but my parents and grand parents did. For them, that flag was a symbol of fear and oppression that was all too real and ever present in their lives.
In my own time, I've watched as that fear and oppression faded from view. All that remains of it, is a shadowy boogeyman that race baiters use to guilt whites into submission. I can't tell you how many times I've told other blacks that the 'struggle' is over, and that 'we' won a long, long time ago.
That said, up until I was middle aged, the sight of the Confederate battle flag still evoked an involuntary reaction in me. It took a lot of aging, experience, and education for me to overcome it. Today, the sight of that flag is actually comforting to me, believe it or not. Such are the benefits of being a conservative person who seeks to live with the truth.
Alrighty. Just thought I'd add my two cents to that. Thanks.
The erasing of the South as a people is new, this Orwellian liberalism is new, this war against Southern heritage is new, this PC excuse making is new.
In true Orwellian fashion they want us to deny ourselves and the truth, how do you tell Southern people, that their South cannot be allowed among women and children or decent society?
That they are to be erased, and absorbed by the North in this new civil war that started only in recent decades by the usual left wing scum that searches out any and everything that doesn’t fit in with their vision of the future when America will all be good liberal, non-Christian, non-Southern, non-Texan New Yorkers with a little of LA tolerated.
There are still little groups of pale faces going around trumpeting their ignorant racial supremacy wrapped in Dixie regalia, and they catch all the attention whether or not they deserve it. (They probably like the bad publicity. It bolsters their bully creds.) Good on you for successfully telling your fears who’s boss. Our worst enemies are sometimes inside rather than outside.