Why is the Confederate Flag bad? I studied US Government in high school in a Territory of the USA - never a mention of it being bad. Thnk?

Can you imagine seeing someone on the street wearing a tee-shirt with a big black-on-red swastika on the front? And suppose he asks you what time it is and you get into a little chat. And you casually ask him 'Why are you wearing that swastika on your tee-shirt? What exactly does that mean to you?' And he says 'This thing? Oh, is that what it's called? I just thought it was pretty!'

In the 1860s the Stars'n'Bars was a symbol of 400 years of oppression of one race by another! After we abolished slavery AND held the union together, for another 100 years the flag stood for discrimination and segregation, the idea that blacks (and Jews and Catholics and immigrants and their children) were not exactly quite human, that they didn't deserve civil rights or even human rights. Today it's a symbol of many peoples' longing to go back to those times.

When I see someone with a Confederate flag on their motorcycle or the bumper of their pickup truck I will often ask them (casually) 'What does that symbol mean to you?' And the guy (it's always a guy) will say 'Uh . . . it means I'm a rebel.' 'Do you know what the symbolism is? What the cross represents? What the stars are for?' 'Uh uh.' Do you know what the 50 stars on the US flag represent? The colors Red, White and Blue? The 13 stripes? Most people do! I have never met one single person who could tell me, for instance, that the blue 'X' on the Stars and Bars is the Scottish Cross, also a symbol of the Presbyterian Church!

Most people seem to think it only means they're from the South. Do they not know that a majority of the US sees it as a symbol of racism and hatred? I'm guessing most of them do! It's like walking around with you fist in the air permanently making The Finger. "Oh, that? It's just in case I need to pick my nose!"

A couple years ago there was a country song about a guy who was wearing the Stars and Bars on his shirt and a black guy saw it. And he felt bad because he wondered if the black guy understood that it only meant he was a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan! This would be like me wearing a Swastika and a 'Heil Hitler' tattoo because I own a Volkswagen!

To be honest I have no idea considering Germany has the same national anthem in use today it had during the NAZI regime! Southern whites see it as a symbol of pride in being southern but some blacks feel it represents racism. The only flag I honor is the red, white and blue so...

That is the Confederate Battle Flag carried into battle and should not be confused with the Stars and Bars.

It's more of what it represents. To me when a person chooses to mount this flag up high, in some cases I have seen, above the U.S. Flag you are basically saying you reject the union that is the United States.

There's nothing bad about the Confederate Flag.

Don't get caught up in the political bullsheet about this type of stuff...

Always think on your own... Do the research...

The CNFDT flag is an example of a co-branded symbol for the

Southern States & SLAVERY.

Confederates killed 360,000 Americans while trying to maintain Slavery.

How messed up does someone have to be to think that that's something worth celebrating?

It's the symbol of racism. The shooter of the church in SC had that on his car. It should be banned like the NAZI flag is in Germany.

it was flown by the same army that made war on the country in defense of slavery

never heard of the evils of slavery, the treasonous armed rebellion, and the viciousness involved?