Why don’t you let it go? Why does it bother you that the South is proud of their Heritage? There was more to the Old South than slavery. What do you want from us? Renounce our heritage? Rename all of our states? Southern New York, Little New Jersey, New Massachusetts? Illinois of the South? Fly the Malcolm X flag? What?
On! ye patriots to the battle,
Hear Fort Moultrie’s cannon rattle!
Then away, then away, then away to the fight!
Go meet those Southern traitors,
Renounce rebellion and treason committed to further and protect the shameful institution of slavery. Reject southern generals who raped slaves, sold their own mixed race children into slavery as brothel slaves, and committed war crimes like Lee. Celebrate the new freedom of all southern people to make their own way in the world. Reject attempts to prop up the feeble pride of the worst white thugs at the expense of honest black men and women.
Do that and I will be more than satisfied.
You will never change the mind of a Yankee Southern hater.
The Confederate battle flag today has nothing to do with race. It stands for a romantic image of a chivalric, honor-based culture that was driven down by the brute force of crass Yankee capitalism, which was better at manufacturing weapons than using them, and that shortly thereafter gave us the Grant administration and the Gilded Age.(WIt stands for a proud military heritage shared by both blacks and whites in the South. The reverence for tradition and pride in historical antecedents are precisely what make Southerners, black and white, such stalwart patriots. The flag under which slavery flourished for almost a century is good. But the flag under which slavery existed for less than a decade is bad? Ann Coulter