Do you still think the Confederate flag is all hate after reading this?

Oh, the classic the South were the only racist in America and broke apart the country concepts. I just find it ironic how too many assume the north was the moral bastion of acceptance for blacks before the Civil War. It is easier to wash down history to a simple form of good versus evil to students instead of explaining the decades long battles of state versus federal power leading up to the Civil War.

I will say, the warnings of ever increasing federal power fell upon deaf ears. We have an incredibly powerful federal government overriding the states. It is not ironic that people parrot the same lines abut the confederacy; it is what they are told. Over 80% couldn't even name the states involved on either side if asked.

I think the ignorance of one or several people combined still means little. No one even mentions that the 11 stars in an X configuration was done in a square shape as the battle standard or in the upper left of a national flag after 1863. Before that the national flag was the "Stars & Bars" with stars in a circle (upper left) and three horizontal bars. And there he's displaying something that was never used by the Confederate States or their armed forces, the battle standard distorted to a rectangular shape.

Yeah, yeah, heritage, not hate. Try a Hammer & Sickle or a Viet Cong flag and see what attention that draws from the "heritage, not hate" folks. I think the issue is silly. None of those represent hate, but it does represent profit for flag-makers.

Freedom of speech is always OK so long as it does not incite riots or use public property or funds to promote a cause.

In some cases where freedom of speech incites riots, it is OK too. If the riot is against the freedom of speech, then the rioters should be arrested. If the riot is against the symbol expressing hatred then the freedom of speech should be banned. If a riot were to break out about this flag, it is obvious that the black man is not making disparaging remarks about blacks with the flag; the riot would be a protest against his free speech and the rioters should be arrested.

It has truly been used for hate. The states of the previous Confederacy ought to have surpassed regulations protecting the flag from being utilized via political communities. The 1860 census shows under 10% of white southerners owned slaves. so as that became no longer the clarification maximum in the South went to conflict. there have been various financial subject concerns. additionally, southern leaders felt to be honest to the South economically legislations became proposed to reimburse the Planter for liberating his slaves. i will see why Congress grew to become down the 1st 2 products of legislations which might have had the government to pay the planter. whether, the final piece of legislations would have required those households in New England, like the Cabots and the Faniuels and Knickerbockers like the Roosevelts who made a fortune in human trafficing advertising the slaves to the Southern planter to furnish some financial attention to the Planter. It appeared like it became going to bypass yet some legislators have been in the wallet of those households. The slave commerce became financed via Boston and manhattan bankers. Msgr. Owen Campion who were a actual sensible *** in disputing Roosevelt involvement in the slave commerce for years and has been shown incorrect (James Roosevelt became on O'Reilly some years back and regarded FDR's grandfather became a slave dealer) now states what ought to have befell is that those households ought to have been required to pay for the emancipation and preparation of the freed slaves. This sounds like it would have been an fairly honest and enlightened element if it would have surpassed. What befell is the Southern Planter became required to launch his slaves, which he ought to have, however the Yankees who made a fortune in advertising them saved their wealth. as a effect the freeing of slaves many times circumstances extra to the financial burden of all white human beings in the South, even people who never had slaves. This little question brought about the freed slaves to be scapegoats for those burdens.

I'm sorry I will always see the Confederate flag as a symbol of the attempt to end the country and rend it in two.

It lead to massive deaths on both sides, no family in the entire country was left untouched.

I'm not even interested in the slave/free, black or economic issues, to me its just the sadness that I don't care to see memorialized as if it were some good thing that the south wanted to set up as its own country.

The reason this made the news is because its so unusual, if it weren't it wouldn't be news.

There are also people who display swastikas to get attention.

I really do not understand why people are proud of a heritage that would make me ashamed and want to keep alive the memory of the major role they played in our past sins that most Americans would like to forget. When I see a Confederate flag I think of slavery, a rebellion had nearly destroyed the county, Jim Crow Laws and Segregation.

Yes, I still think the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate. People can claim it's about "Southern pride," but it is still a symbol for quitting on America instead of abiding by democratic government. The Confederate flag represents divisiveness and is the flag for whiners.

So because a black college student hangs the confederate flag in his dorm room, it's suddenly ok? No, it isn't ok, regardless of who displays it. It represents an era of the south that fought to preserve slavery. If that's "heritage" to them then I want nothing to do with their heritage.

No. I never hated the Confederate flag.

Yes. Poor ignorant kid doesn't realize the history of his own people. Sounds like a conservative history whitewash success story.

I'm sure there's a german that can tell you lovely stories love and family on christmas mornings in nazi germany but that doesn't make the swastika any less hateful.

THE CONFEDERATE FLAG STANDS FOR TREASON AND OWNING PEOPLE LIKE PROPERTY.