TxDeb writes:
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>> CompassionateRebel writes:
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>> sillystring writes:
Confederate flag is not hateful. It is part of our history, whether you like that part of history are not.
I am not the least bit approving of gay marriage.
Most reasonable folks take the confederate flag to be the symbol of slave owners who wanted to break the Union in order to impose their white supremacy and perpetuate the inhumanity of slavery.
The last sentence I take to be your opinion.
That it is ludicrous. Most reasonable people know that the flag everyone has a problem with was a BATTLE flag and not the National flag of the Confederate States. Most reasonable people know that slavery was just one cause. Most reasonable people know that until the 13th Amendment passed there were five UNION states who kept their slaves.
Do I agree with it flying over state buildings, no. But it is part of the U.S. History and even though it is a dark part of History, it is not a part we should push under the rug, but educate people about it.
You state a very naive version of history, one that has been used by those who wish to distance themselves from the awful stain of white supremacy and slavery. I agree that under no circumstances the flag should flight on government property. It belongs in museums and in the private properties of those who wish to associate with the hateful and sordid policies this flag represented.
**A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.** 1845
...in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....
www.civilwar.org/edu cation/history/prima rysources/declaratio nofcauses.html#