Saw this on Facebook. You respond.......I'm sorry but I'm about to preach and teach!! If you want to fight a cause, understand what you are fighting. First and foremost the Confederate Flag was never a national flag representing the South, it was a battle flag flown by several armies in Virginia.
Irrelevant. The symbol of the flag was turned into pure racism by Lost Causers as well as the folks stabbing it at civil rights marchers and the like. battle flag, whatever flag. It has been used by racists since Lee surrendered.
Even if it had been a national flag for the South, understand that the Civil War wasn't just over slavery, while it was the reason slavery ended, it was merely an excuse for the war.
Uh, no. At the end of the day it was over slavery. No other explanation holds water.
The North fought the war over money (the same reason we fight half the wars these days and excuse it by saying we're fighting for another cause. Plain and simple. When the South started Secession, Lincoln was asked, "Why not let the South go in peace?" To which he replied, "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?" Sensing total financial ruin for the North, Lincoln waged war on the South.
That sounds like the lame-o Neo confederate claim of 'the war was about tarriffs!!!!!" which has been long debunked.
The South fought the War to repel Northern aggression and invasion, because, and yes this is a true stereotype, us southerners don't like to be told what to do!
Northern aggression, so why did they attack Fort Sumnter again?
Apparently Southerners do enjoy telling others what to do, however. Fugutive slave law was telling free states what they had to do with escaped slaves. They also put it in their Constitution that no state could end slavery. Yeah, they don't like being told what to do...sure.
Lol. The Confederate Battle Flag today finds itself in the center of much controversy. The cry to take this flag down is unjustified. It is very important to keep in mind that the Confederate Battle Flag was simply just that. A battle flag. It was never even a National flag, so how could it have flown over a slave nation or represented slavery or racism?
If anti Civil rights jerks start waving the national confederate flag at civil rights marchers or the KKK used that this might have a point.
This myth is continued by lack of education and ignorance.
Mostly that of this author.
Those that villify the Confederate Battle Flag are very confused about history and have jumped upon a bandwagon with loose wheels.
No, this is not a bandwagon, it is merely the final straw in a long culminating backlash against the racist institutions that have been allowed free reign in the southern states.
To touch on another subject, many say that it's a symbol of hate because it was flown over slave ships, and that's false but guess what was? The American flag.
Irrelevant. I've never heard this claim and slave ships stopped showing up on our shores long before the confederacy existed.
Many also say it was the KKKs flag... Google KKK.... You will see them flying the American flag more so than the Confederate Flag.
The 1920's KKK creeped (which my Google search turns up most images of) into the northern states on a pedestal of racism and anti-Catholicism. The original KKK used the battle flag. The present day KKK uses the confederate flag.
The US flag flew over a slave nation for over 85 years!
Part of the nation was free.
I'm not saying this to down the American Flag because I love it just the same. I'm simply saying that, if the Confederate Flag should be removed, why not the American Flag??
Because part of that nation was free, and that part enventually fought very hard to bring about the end of slavery.
The North tolerated slavery and acknowledged it as a Division Of Labor. The North made a vast fortune on slavery and it's commodities.
Not really. The north had a lot of conflicts about slavery.
It wasn't until the South decided to leave the Union that the North objected.
And why did the South leave the union? Golly, because they didn't get all they wanted (i.e. more slave states in the Union)
The North knew it could not survive without the Southern money....
The North knew that secession is a disease that will only cause more divisions. The money argument is nonsense. The northern industries were not exaclty poor, as the fact that the Union army was almost constantly well equipped.
And did you know? At the time the War of 1861 -1865 officially commenced, the Southern States were actually in the process of freeing all slaves in the South.
BULLLLLLL-SH************
Russia had freed it's servants in 1859, and the South took great note of this. Had military intervention not been forced upon the South, a very different America would have been realized then as well as now.
This is getting outright delusional. The south had gone to huge efforts to justify slavery and promote its expansion.
Racism is being projected onto the Confederate Flag, which is in return, continuing the division among us. Just because one racist lunatic supported the confederate flag, doesn't mean every person who supports it is a racist.
The rebel flag to me means home. Southern pride. Wheat fields, sunflower fields, deer hunting, hard work, trucks, racing, family, and pride in where I'm from. Born and raised here and damn proud of it. Ignorance "flies" both ways. An item can not be racist, unless you are an easily offended person, or racist yourself.
Just my two cents!!"
Find another symbol, maybe one that wasn't used to oppress minorities.
