i was recently logging on to my yahoo! account when the bars and stars of the confederate flag flying next to the red white and blue caught my eye. why, i wondered to myself, does the flag that stands for no more than the opression of an entire race of people, continue to be flown in this country. Not only that, but right next to the american flag at a national sporting event, a nascar race. Coming from a small rural town myself, i have heard all of the arguments for keeping the confederate flag, none of which have convinced me it should be used anywhere. I have heard the state rights argument, the cultural argument, and the rebellious argument. Well heres a short clip of my argument: you lost get over it. I am against war but it just so happens that when war does happen, the loser takes their flag down and the winner rules. The north was nice enough to let the south stay in the us after the war and helped settle their debt, so why do people still fight to fly a flag that came into existence for an economic system based on slavery and nothing else? The flag stands for racism, hate, and ignorance, nothing else, so if people want to excersize their state rights well go for it, make ur own nation and fly your own flags, until then dont taint us with your hate.
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I don't think the flag stands for racism. It stands for the south's culture. So you've heard the arguement. I won't go over it again. I will state you are free to your opinion and the right to express it. So is anyone else in the U.S. and with that right, they can fly the confederate flag.
I agree with the two comments above me, as a black person, I do not look at the conferate flag and think about the racism it has come to represent in modern culture, I think about the rich history it represents. Humans tend to turn the loosers icons into an evil and wrong thing, so anything that represents the south pre-civil war, was automatically associated with racism years later, when, in all honesty very little of the war was truly about slavery, slavery was more the political idea thrown around to rally the north and was also used as a wepon against the south...so yeah it isn't always hate I have good friends who regularly fly the confederate flag(seeing as my friends and I are reenactors, it happens more often than one would think lol)
I agree with you. I do not see why people think the confederates were so bad. So, yes alot of them owned slaves and abused them. The same thinng happened up north, until the region started getting urbanized.
The flag is part of the culture that the Sounth held, and I do not find that someone should be called evil for flying the flag.
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I never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
To each his or her own I suppose. For some the flag is a symbol of keeping the country white or some other nonsensical incredibly racist arguement. For others it's a symbol of Southern pride and for yet others it's a total redneck thing. I personally have no use for the flag. Sure, it played a very important role in the history of our country and in it's own way, led to the abolishment of slavery (much to the chagrin of those fighting to leave the Union and keep slavery alive). But, I'm much happier flying the American flag and leaving all the other stuff aside. The American flag says just as much about that part of history as the Confederate flag, IMO.
>The north was nice enough to let the south stay in the us after the war
If the north hadn't let the South stay in the US after the war, then the South would have won. DUUUUHHHHHHHHH