The use of the flag was resurrected by the segregationists as a symbol of defiance of the civil rights movement. It originally was the flag of a country founded on principles of slavery and white supremacy. Those are the objective facts. How does the flag itself now separate itself from that reality? That needs to be explained - I'm not seeing it, but I'm willing to listen. She probably also believes the revisionist history of what the Confederacy was "really" about that was penned by the former politicians after their crushing defeat in the war which is where this view on the flag also comes from.
Screw you
“The use of the flag was resurrected by the segregationists as a symbol of defiance of the civil rights movement. “
Well that’s always been the marxist Left’s favorite version of American history since it fits their constant theme of racism.
The Confederate flag was “resurrected” in 1961, on April 12, 1961 to be precise. That was the day that South Carolina raised it at their State House. That date marked the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Centennial celebration that the whole country participated in for the next four years.
The Civil Rights movement didn’t get rolling until King’s speech and march on Washington in June 1963, over two years later. But the Left never lets details get in the way of their race baiting.
That hotbed of segregation and racism, Time Magazine, had this to say last June 22nd:
“On Monday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley became the latest person to urge the South Carolina legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s Capitol. In the wake of a shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead, national debate over the controversial symbol has been reinvigorated. Below is a brief guide to South Carolina’s recent history with the potent emblem.
“South Carolina has not always flown the flag. The state’s first modern hoisting of the standard came in 1961, as part of official commemorations of the centennial anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. As K. Michael Prince notes in his book about the relationship between the state and the flag, Rally ’round the Flag, Boys!, the celebrations kicked off in Charleston, where the fighting had begun 100 years earlier. The flag’s place at the Capitol was officially confirmed by the state legislature the following year....”
“The decision in South Carolina didn’t attract much attention at the time. Civil-rights activists were more concerned with securing voting rights and ending legal segregation than a flag, and the state legislature relied on a concurrent resolution, which is typically reserved for uncontroversial measures, to order the flag placed atop the statehouse. Because concurrent resolutions don’t require much debate, there’s little record of what arguments were used in favor of flying the flag.”
http://time.com/3930464/south-carolina-confederate-flag-1962/