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Re: Confederate Flag
The problem is the history of the Confederate flag or Rebel flag includes its recent history. It is its recent history that so condemns that particular flag. The flag in question was just one of many flown by the Confederacy and their armies during its brief history, but only one of them, a particular flag, was the symbol for Jim Crow and was raised by those in positions of power wanting to continue it. It's why Root, the murderer, didn't pick one of the other many available historical flags of the Confederacy, he like the modern KKK and many other modern racists like the leaders of Southern states fighting to continue Jim Crow all picked the same symbol. It's not an accident.
Bringing the conversation of that flag's history back to the 1860s just deliberately obscures all of that.
Im pretty certain my comments you responded to in THIS post were talking about the Civil War.... in a thread talking about the Confederate Flag... and were in response to the topic of slavery....
The problem is the history of the Confederate flag or Rebel flag includes its recent history. It is its recent history that so condemns that particular flag. The flag in question was just one of many flown by the Confederacy and their armies during its brief history, but only one of them, a particular flag, was the symbol for Jim Crow and was raised by those in positions of power wanting to continue it. It's why Root, the murderer, didn't pick one of the other many available historical flags of the Confederacy, he like the modern KKK and many other modern racists like the leaders of Southern states fighting to continue Jim Crow all picked the same symbol. It's not an accident.
Bringing the conversation of that flag's history back to the 1860s just deliberately obscures all of that.