Where is the pride in the Confederate flag?

Question

It's the flag of a losing faction that supported slavery. How is that heritage? How is it anything to be proud of?

Answer 1

You have already made up your mind what it stands for in your opinion therefore any answer other than that of which you would agree will be wrong. You either want to start a fuss, or just want to hear someone echo your own words.

The losing fraction that supported slavery was America. That's why the war was fought after all was to keep the Union together. Slavery was a bargaining tool until the mid point. After the Confederacy was dissolved, civil rights didn't catch up for one hundred years or so.

Also........

The American flag was the flag that flew above the troops that pushed the Native Americans off their land and on death marches, --------alot of the land which funny enough was in the (Northern States).

The American flag is used at KKK functions with other flags including the German Swastika and the Confederate.

The American flag was the banner under which the Atomic Bomb was dropped.

The American flag was pulled quickly retreating from Vietnam.

The American flag has had its share of disgrace and glory. It has shared in every aspect of everything the Confederate flag stood for in its five year existence as a battle flag of a nation.

The South lost the war but it was tooth and nail all the way. Everything else attached to the flag is just the fallout of history and narrow minded people. Belief and lifestyle that were present in the South in 1860 were the fruits of what was allowed in the nation in its birth.

Americia has never been perfect, and we still have a ways to go.
People like you think that one banner represents one state of mind and that is attached to all who carry it.

I am sure you don't agree with the slaughter of Native Americans. You may not agree with the current way of government either, but you may still favor the flag of our nation and may even wave it.

If you can wrap your mind around the fact that people can rally behind a banner for many different reasons, you will stand to learn a lot.

The Confederate Flag is NOT always proper to fly and it does make people uncomfortable, but so does the American flag.
The point is pride is what YOU see in YOUR country and heritage because when you get down to it there is enough shame and hatred on both flags.

The issue cannot be summed up in loss or hatred because these are flaws that apply to all creeds.

Answer 2

The Confederate flag did not stand for slavery, that is what people portray it as today because most schools teach it that way. I did a little more research on this topic on my own time in a book called "Our American History" and found out that most blacks were freed before the civil war, not all of them so do not misunderstand me. Did you know that there were more free blacks that had never been slaves in the south than in the north. By the way people do not want to believe that there were at one time slaves in the north. Blacks did not even really get any rights until the civil rights movement after the civil war and after womens rights came into affect. Just a bit of information the flag stood for states that did not believe in poperty taxes, and those that were rebelious against the nation's government at that time, which gave the conferderate flag the nickname "The Rebel Flag" and by the way do you recall the first document signed in the United States after the American Revolution. It was the articles of conferderacy drawn up by a southern diplomat.

Answer 3

Are you asking "where" as in location or as in rhetoric? If you want to know location I suggest that you look at any area where there is "white" poverty. Many unenlightened and uneducated people of any nationality find that they feel elevated emotionally when they criticize and control others. I have encountered many African Americans and constantly ask why and how can they live in such areas. I have never received a satisfactory answer. I would suggest that you read the following books, if you haven't:
African American Voices
The Color Purple
Tracks on a Dust Road by Zora Neale Hurst
Diary of a Southern Woman
Andersonville
Regarding slavery, I have found that many African Americans fail to realize or perhaps don't know that whites were and are held as slaves; that slavery continues currently; that Brazil eliminated slavery well after the United States; that slavery was in almost every European nation; that the Africans sold hostages of nother tribes they conquered to slave dealers; that the South understood slavery to be an economic nescessity while the North believed that slavery was a backward and kept by spoiled whites wanting someone else to do the hard work so they could have their mint juleps on the veranda. African Americans have made Nike an empire by buying shoes made by children in countries where child labor laws are not even a consideration...another form of slavery. Personally, I find no glory in the history of the Confederate Flag, it is history only, a reminder of the selfishness of the white race. Oh, by the by, as far as I know I am white.

Answer 4

Who the hell ever said we gave up the war.Plus you seriously need to get your facts straight. the war was NOT started over slavery or because of it. slavery did not become a issue untill approx 2 years after the war between the states started.
The war between the states started over states rights unfair taxation , tariffs ,and free trade. in ways similuar to the American revolution. You folks sure want to Dis the south when the so called father of the USA was a slave owner [good ole George Washington he also had a lot of little bastards running around. Slavery was very promininant in the north also.
While I do not condone slavery of any kind.I do support the Rebel flag of the South. Pride you ask
1. I am a southner through and through I love my land and my heritage
2. when the rebel flag was introduced it was a banner for freedom,a call to arms,A symbol that united a common people who chose to be free rather than dictated to by a elete few in Washington
3.I know this may sound ugly but if it were not for slavery all the whinning oppressed people in this nation would still be in Africa chunking Sticks.I would be more than happy to liberate you by giving you a free ticket home.I am a American and I would be happy to wager my a-ss is blacker than yours.
Now this is proveable my ancestors fought in the Civil war and they were Proud black men who were fighting for their way of life.
And don't you ever run them down.
PS. go get a real education and learn the truth before you open up again

Answer 5

Brave men died beneath that flag. Most of those brave men were not fighting for slavery but state's rights. Slavery was incidental to the conflict, not integral. You are looking at history through the wrong end of a telescope & sitting, oh-so-righteously, in judgment using present day values - which cannot work. The flag deserves respect - the ragged men in gray who marched up that valley at Gettysburg against impossible odds deserve respect. Because you lose a war means you lose all pride? Get real, Yankee.

Answer 6

I am from North Carolina and I also support the "Rebel Flag" in honor of my grandfather and his brother who fought and DIED and that war. He left behind 9 children for my grandmother to raise; but she later remarried. Where I am from, its Rebel country through and through and it is not about slavery and as the others wrote; listen and read what they wrote! Get your facts straight before you go and judge people. I never got to know my grandfather. I fly the flag in his honor; I don't think about "hatred", maybe the blacks do? But I don't..get real OK? There were ALLOT of slaves in the NORTH TO! Study up on your history OK. I have.

Answer 7

its a part of american history but nothing to be proud of. I think we all know what group of people are the ones that see it that way . . .

Answer 8

**** that flag. and anybody who supports it.

Answer 9

Right on, dunno! You smoked his Yankee assets...

Yankess just don't know, do they?