“I see no need to clutch to the Confederate flag.”
Well, you are not a Southerner. Don’t clutch to it if you don’t care about it. But why should people like you, who willingly drink the historical revisionist kool-ade regarding the Confederate flag, ram your opinions down the throats of an entire section of the country.
Trump is right, the flag represents Southern identity; got nothing to do with race or white supremacy. That is a very recent slur in certain peoples’ goals to do away with American traditions, which you obviously have bought into. Multiculturalism and tolerance go out the window when face with unapproved thoughts.
Hey man, if you take away their ability to virtue signal about how evil the South is, they may have to ask themselves why they have tens of thousands of black men behind bars in their state.
Except that it is you that is engaging in the historical revisionism. I take the Confederate politicians at their word when I read the resolutions of secession they passed as the reasons for leaving the United States that it was about slavery, racism, and white supremacy - it was that way right from the beginning - South Carolina was the first to do so. They said it, no one else. We take them at their word. I take the Confederate politicians’ stump speeches (such as the Cornerstone Speech) that white supremacy / slavery was the basis for the Confederacy’s existence. Again, they said it, not me. I take them at their word and believe they meant what they said. That’s the real history of the Confederacy. Ignoring that reality doesn’t change it. And the Confederate flag obviously represents the Confederacy and what the Confederacy represents. It’s not a “slur” ... it’s just stating the facts.
What so many of the South-bashers never admit is that slavery existed far longer under the Stars and Stripes (almost 90 years) than under the Confederacy’s Stars and Bars (which in fact is quite similar in design to Old Glory, and existed for less than five years). But, the flag they are so incensed about was a BATTLE flag, not a national flag.
I’m American by birth and Southern by heritage, and I love both.
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