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Originally posted by Rudey
Since I don't know I thought I would ask:
What is so endearing about this flag that even after its modern association with racism, that people want to remember the other things it is associated with?
I don't know enough so I thought maybe someone would know.
-Rudey
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You know, aside from the issue of racism which, as a black american, is very significant to me, there is also the fact that the confederacy sought to secede from the Union and demolish the nation that so many people fought to create through the Revolutionary War. I think it is very disrespectful to try to cover up both the horrific legacy of human bondage AND the attempt to break up the Union with this shroud of "honoring their heritage". I understand that people have ancestors who died in the civil war, but think about what they died for. There is no dignity or honor in the fact tha these people died trying to hang on to some shred of a systematic regime of white supremacy. It's actually rediculous and it should have never had to come to a war.
People tell black people everyday that they need to just "get over the past". Well those confederate loving people are the ones who need to get over the past. What's really ironic is that these people that fly that flag, particularly in the south, do so honoring the most historic form of domestic treason while claiming to be so damned patriotic!
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