You still don't get it? I don't think a freed slave would care why he was freed, just that he was. Aren't you proud that you now live in a country that practices what it preaches? Aren't you proud to live under an American flag with citizens that believe so much in freedom that we will fight and die to defend to it? Perceptions be damned that my friend is reality.
"Aren't you proud that you now live in a country that practices what it preaches? Aren't you proud to live under an American flag with citizens that believe so much in freedom that we will fight and die to defend to it? Perceptions be damned that my friend is reality."
Yes, my friend. I am proud. And I do 'get it.' Growing up in the 60's in Houston wasn't very nice, or equal; but it is now, and for that I am also proud.
You're wasting your time trying to convince these guys that the Confederate flag is anything other than a symbol of all the was once good about America.
Ask them this: Would it be OK for my daughter to go to this same school wearing a shirt that says:
"My great-granfather was a Confederate, thus I am a descendent an American traitor; no different than my hero John Kerry."