Re: Confederate Flag
Not exactly. It never went away and it was always associated with honoring the fallen. You want to wipe their memories from the face of the earth.
That's truly sad. And, all because you need to punish those ignorant Southerners.
Truly amazing hatred there, my friend. Here's a 1920 celebration:
Confederate veterans in 1944: (How DARE that black man sit there and honor the flag?) Is he an Uncle Tom?
And how dare they honor the dead with that flag back then? Aren't you telling us it wasn't even around until the racist Democrats opposed Civil Rights? This is 1922, by the way.
Everything you've said - you've concocted. The flag is something used to honor the soldiers and the culture. Fascists Leftists are intent on making something that holds honor and pride for many into something dirty.
And - you're winning. Congratulations.
You apparently didn't bother to read that post I wrote.
The flag *was* mostly put away after the war -- for decades. As I said. It saw a small resurgence during the time the South was starting to Jim Crow blacks to death and disenfranchise them -- in the late 1800's, early 1900's.
But mostly, it was used at memorial and reunion parades. And what are those pictures of you show?
Cemetery, Memorials, Reunion. Yeah, Do you understand the difference?
It was not waved around willy nilly, and even when the Klan Marched on Washington, in the 1920's, when KKK membership was 4 million strong, (the 2nd iteration of the Klan) - you could find no CSA flags there.
Cemeteries, Memorials, Reunion was where it was mostly seen.
Until...Dixiecrat era, just as I said.
Here:
The History of the Confederate Battle Flag |
"After the surrender in 1865, Confederate flags were folded and put away. They were most likely to be spotted at memorials or cemeteries.
Even after the hopeful decade of Reconstruction gave way to the violent repression of Redemption, open displays of the flag remained rare.
There was no need for a banner to signal defiance; Jim Crow reigned unchallenged.
The flag slowly crept back into public life over the ensuing decades, saluted at veterans’ reunions, promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, even carried into battle by units from the South. By the mid-twentieth century, the flags were also waved by football fans, and sold to tourists.
But as a political symbol, the flag was revived when northern Democrats began to press for an end to the South’s system of racial oppression. In 1948, the Dixiecrats revolted against President Harry Truman—who had desegregated the armed forces and supported anti-lynching bills.
The movement began in Mississippi in February of 1948, with thousands of activists “shouting rebel yells and waving the Confederate flag,” as the Associated Press reported at the time. Some actually removed old, mothballed flags from the trunks where they had until then been gathering dust."