Mr Reynholm wrote:
Red Raid wrote:
Dang, people still support the confederate flag? That's rough.
The sole reason of the Confederacy was the enslavement of black people. One of their VP's even made a speech about it. I don't think everyone who flies it has bad intentions. Some people use it just to express southern pride. But the flag was originally used as a symbol for a racist movement. The flag may not be racist itself but it's connection to slavery and other forms of racism throughout history is more than enough to disqualify it from respectability.
One of the more common defense's of the flag is that you can change what a flag stands for. I don't think that's very good reasoning as that is very narrow-minded. Going by that logic, can't you apply that to other flags, such as the Nazi flag for example?
It wasn't a symbol of racism to the southerners, it was the battle flag of the confederacy. Slavery was one aspect of the reason the south seceded but it was mostly economic.
As a matter of fact, the whole Confederate flag mania in the south for the most part was fired up in reaction against civil rights for black Americans, and in support of white supremacy.
All economic reasons for the Civil War lead back to slavery. Slavery ultimately was the sole reason. The plantation owning class had the most to gain for the war, while poor white southerners were kept docile in their place on the class ladder by knowing at least they were regarded better than slaves. That continued on after the war, when blacks were made second class citizens, keeping poor whites happy in their poverty with the knowledge that they were a step above blacks.
Look what the war got them. A South rich in nothing but widows, ruins, and amputees.
21 Oct 2021, 4:11 pm
