The Black Panther flag offends me.
The ISIS flag offends me.
The Confederate flag does NOT offend me and it shouldn't offend anybody else if they know real history, not the revised version that the Democrats have been teaching.
A lot of feelings about this flag right now but to me this flag has never been about slavery and it wasn't to most Southerners. My family came here from Scotland and the Netherlands in the early 1700's. They settled in the Appalachian mountains. My ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War with Washington. When they came here from Scotland they became 100% Americans, not hyphenated Americans.
I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to my Great-grandfather about the Civil War when I was just a little child. He was born in 1865 and died in 1963. He was told stories first hand about the war by his father, who was actually there. He said that most Southerners, including our family, never owned any slaves and never believed in it. He told me that the slave owners were the wealthy plantation owners and politicians.
My ancestors had no intention in fighting in this war. The thing that got them involved was when the Northern army invaded their farms, killed their livestock, and burned their homes for no reason other than they were Southerners. My family was barely scratching a living out of their farms and the Northern armies destroyed everything they had. Most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in that war were fighting to protect their homes, not the right to keep slaves.
We need to remember what this flag really stands for. If we don't, I can see history repeating itself. Slavery was a terrible thing. The war was a terrible thing. Southerners will never forget and they will never give up this flag. Regardless of why any individual thinks was the reason for this war, remember one thing. If our government attacked us once, they can and will do it again. THAT is why we in the South cling to our God, our guns, and our flag, American and Confederate.
I am ashamed, angered, and saddened that some extremist hate groups have adopted it for their evil purposes. That is not what this flag has ever really been about.
I will never apologize for honoring this flag and I will never be ashamed of it.
That’s just it. The people are so dumbed down that they are only offended because they are told to be offended.