ok who else hates when people think the confederate flag is racist?

Question

if you think it is your wrong it stands for hte south not hate against black people i hate when people think that

Answer 1

It is a representation of heritage. Asking southerners to not display it or wear it on their clothing is like asking someone who moves here from Africa or Italy or wherever, not to display their flag or heritage. It's the same thing. So I guess the people who hate seeing the confederate flag should also get angry when people display their state flag or their home country's flag.

Answer 2

Amen!

I am a multi-generational southerner. I find it distressing that people associate the icons of southern heritage as racist.

Now, before one of y'all goes off on the whole civil war thing there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

1) It was about the relative roles of the federal and state governments, not about slavery. Lincoln used slavery as a catalyzing issue as well as an economic tool to weaken the south.

2) There were many blacks who fought for the confederacy

3) It is a misconception that white folks went over to Africa with nets to round up slaves and bring them back to the new world. The fact of the matter is that most black African slaves were prisoners of war captured by rival black African tribes and sold to slave traders (the most infamous of which was a black man, BTW) and then brought to the new world (as well as elsewhere) by those professional slave traders.


Now, that being said, most farmers, my ancestors included, could not afford slaves. These were used by the huge plantation owners, not the poor mom and pop cotton farmers trying to eek out a living. I often joke (and quite truthfully, might I add) that it is quite probable that my grandfather personally hand picked more cotton than did the grandfather of most African Americans living today.

Answer 3

no, i hate when people won't acknowledge the fact that it is racist.

i am from the south so i can tell you all about. what you need to do is stop listening to what others tell you and do some research of your own. find out the "true" meaning of the confederate flag.

did you know your confederate flag was adopted by the kkk as their symbol? not only by the kkk but other white supremacist groups as well. your confederate flag was also the battle flag of the south during the civil war - you know the war when the south fought tooth and nail to maintain the right to have slaves. your beloved confederate flag represents a place in time that ANY red blooded american should be ashamed of.

now that's one damn flag that needs to be burned.

Answer 4

There was actually a formal discussion about this issue at my college, but I didn't attend it...I too think it's ridiculous that people think the Confederate flag stands for racism. It's open to interpretation, but I think it's a sign of rebellion (at least that's why I like it). Saying that the Confederate flag stands for racism is like saying the American flag stands for the elimination of the Native American race.

Answer 5

i truly come from the deep south (mississippi) easily everyone right here (Florida) looks to have an same problem with the accomplice flag. The flag isn't in many cases used as a racist image, a minimum of in the area the position I got here from. should you wore it on shirts or hats or on their vehicles it really is a kind of their historic previous. it really is our way of exhibiting our heritige. when I say heritige i do no longer advise a heritige of slavery, opression and hate, I advise our historic previous. Its like how human beings get tatoos or stickers on their vehicles that say "In memory of ____." I not in any respect heard of any violent race depending incidents at the same time as I lived in Sandhill, MS. I completely assist you on the Nazis inspite of the actuality that. Nazi in the prominent experience a minimum of.

Answer 6

It is the same to me as Christianity being lumped in as a representation of all the people who love and follow Christ... Somewhere along the line an ignorant influence came along and made it a bad thing by proxy... Not all red necks are racists and not all Christians are Christlike... The people that speak out against these things, haven't the knowledge to completely understand them so they judge everyone all together... not unlike I just did in calling everyone that has one a red neck... See!

The Buddha statues in India, have Swastika's on them... Symbols are up for interpretation as with everything else... get human beings involved and they will either discet it to think it half to death and destroy it in the process or just judge it and lessen it by ignorance of a thing...

The mob always rules honey... sorry!

Answer 7

In and of itself, it's not a racist symbol, but it can and sometimes is used as such. Some people believe it is a negative symbol and want it removed, and some people say nay as they see the flag as standing for Southern pride and tradition. Thus the controversy.

Answer 8

Of course the Confederate flag is racist. The only reason the South seceded was that the North would not extend slavery to the new territories. The ONLY difference between the Constitution of the Confederate States and the Constitution of the United States was that the Confederate Constitution guaranteed slavery. So the only meaning of the Confederate flag is that it stands for the protection of slavery. How can that no be considered racist?

Answer 9

Well, it is a symbol of a very brutal time in U.S. history, darling. Sad but true. And it will never lose that stigma. Did you know the swastika was originally not supposed to represent the extermination of the jews and the superiority of the white race. Hitler borrowed it. Same sort of thing here.

Answer 10

Maybe it's because half of the people that have a confederate flag are rednecks. Where do the think the racist association comes from in the first place? That's how it is here in Georgia anyway. Maybe if I saw normal white people waving the flag I wouldn't think so badly of it.

If you have a problem with people thinking the Confederate Flag is racist then you should blame the people that USE it as a symbol of hate. The KKK for example.........

Answer 11

The American Civil War (the greatest and bloodiest civil war ever fought) was fought over states' rights and not slavery. Slavery was a dying institution and would have totally collapsed during the industrial revolution. I see no need to fly the confederate flag today----this is living in the past and nothing good can come from it.