The Confederate Flag

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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Guess which flag was flying on those ships?

The American flag.

Not the Confederacy. I believe the Confederacy banned the importation of slaves with the ratification of the CSA's constitution.

For the record, I fly the Bonnie Blue. It exhibits Southern Pride to those who love the South and looks like part of the Texas flag to those who have no knowledge of history.

This is such a strange argument. No one has denied that here. Slavery was absolutely a problem of all states at the time of the Revolution. It was a North and South problem. Northerners participated in the slave trade. They owned slaves. They purchased cotton grown by slaves to use in the Northern cotton mills. However, he Northern states outlawed slavery before the war, though, and the South seceded to maintain the institution.

Who did what when is a pointless argument. I don't care what your ancestors did. Some of mine owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy. I don't honor them for that. I also don't feel guilty about it. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I fully admit that they were wrong. The past is the past. We can't change it. We can change our own conduct now, though.

Some days I think there is nothing wrong with the South, except a stubborn refusal to quit arguing that the Civil War was justified and their great-great-great-great-whatever did not make a colossal mistake by engaging in treason against the USA.