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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
It's not that way across the entire South. My first negative encounter with the confederate flag was in high school centered around a group of senior white guys wearing home made t-shirts with the flag and the phrase "It's a white thing you wouldn't understand" and ugly KKK inspired nicknames like Grand Dragon airbrushed on the back to counter the popular "It's a black thing you wouldn't understand" t-shirts of the early 90's. This was at a very integrated, high achiever HS five minutes from Southern University. The meaning of that flag hasn't changed just because a new generation of children have decided to "take back" a symbol. It is not accepted or embraced by all white Southerners, and plenty of black southerners as well as white southerners are offended by it.
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I cosign 100%. I'd like to say to my fellow white folks: don't kid yourself by assuming that your black friends are cool with it just because it's always been around. Slavery at one point in our history had always been around too; I imagine one would have been hardpressed to find a slave who was OK with slavery just because it had always been that way.