It's a symbol of both. What the Confederate Battle Flag means to white Southerners like Charlie Daniels and what it means to the average black descendant of slaves are two different things. Given the actual history, the fact that it means different things to different people should come as no surprise.
Neither "faction" has a monopoly on dictating the meaning of that particular symbol. Both viewpoints hold some validity, IMHO, and that's where the issue should remain.
Unfortunately, politically correct hysteria has taken hold of the issue, and any semblance of tolerance and rationality were left behind long ago.
This is the totalitarian collectivist mind at work. We're becoming Europeans. It was bound to happen sooner or later...
well reasoned post.
You’re wrong Sargon
Point in fact 40% of blacks in Mississippi voted to keep our flag recently
Most in the a south are apathetic or ambivalent
Most non activist blacks in Dixie just want to live their lives like anyone else
These nuts like council members in Memphis and Nashville are making political has to divert from their real problems which are self inflicted
Northern blacks...they’ve been hostile a lot longer
I say this from experience dating to the 60s
See Andrew Youngs comments
You’re correct though that nobody owns the interpretation but that is pretty much true of anything except Gods word