I am not trying to cause problems by asking this and I am not rascist in anyway. How many people out there think of the Confederate flag as a racial symbol? The reason I ask is because I am from the south and I have the Confederate flag up. I don't have it up as a racial symbol but as a symbol showing that I am proud to be from the south because I know a lot of people make fun of southerns. I know there are a lot of twisted people out there who fly it for the wrong reasons. Just curious to see how many.
2007-01-16 05:50:03 · 10 answers · asked by rowdyrebelgal 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Fly your Confederate flag if you want to sweetheart. I am from South MS and I have one right under the flag of the United States of America flying on a flag pole on a hill at my house. Right, wrong, or indifferent it was a part of history and it is a part of our heiritage. Frankly, I am tired of having to apologize for something that I had no part in. I am not responsible for anything that happened before August the 6th 1958( I wasn't born until then) so if you want to fly it let 'er fly. The biggest problem I have with all this is the double standard. I KNOW I am going to get a bunch of thumbs down and really don't care so here goes. When I see black kids with Malcom X shirts on and an attitude to go with it; it offends me, but dare I say anything about it, heavens no that would be racist. It was Robert E. Lee's birthday yesterday too but the banks and the federal buildings weren't closed for that old Southern war horse now were they? Next month is Black history month a time when we will be inundated with all the accomplishements that blacks have made throughout history. I am in agreement that some great ideas and contributions have come from black individuals.They should be and are recognized in history after the civil war was over. During black history month though you won't hear about how their own people sold them in Africa to the slave traders who shipped them in to the Northern United states where they were then sold to the Southerner's to work their plantations. You will only hear about the good things they've done and the good folks that they had as role models. White history tell the stories of our Benedict Arnolds and our John Wilkes Booths. We admit that our history is a combination of good and bad. Fly that flag girl if it makes you happy and you're proud to be from the South let the thing fly high and proud.
2007-01-16 06:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The confederate flag should only be kept in museums as part of history. It is a symbol of people who tried to break up our country by seceding and starting a civil war that broke up families and killed many people. It is the flag of a south that believed in Slavery. To fly this flag as a proud symbol is disgraceful and disrespectful to the United States. Our flag is the stars and stripes.
2007-01-16 05:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I associate the Confederate flag with a number of stereotypes about Southerners, racism being only one of many negative traits. I lived in Atlanta for a while, and most of the people who flew Confederate flags were not people I would want as friends.
2007-01-16 05:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you up on your history? The flag was a symbol of "for slavery" for the south. Do you fly it now because you still feel the need to "be proud" to believe we fought and killed so many just to own "black human property" The web is soooooo available. Search the reason for the season-not just one version-there are many. Choose and be content with your decision.
2007-01-16 05:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by bajllc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never considered it a racist symbol. In my area of the country, it's more of a redneck symbol. If you see a Confederate flag on a pick-up window, you can just about bet the farm that it's a "good old boy" driving that truck. I know a young minister who has a tattoo of a Confederate flag on his arm. He is in no way a racist.
2007-01-16 05:57:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-08 01:11:26 · answer #6 · answered by alia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in the south also, & I look at the C-flag as a part of history, not to be flown or displayed on a regular basis as we have one flag, the Stars & Stripes, one nation, one flag. OK?
2007-01-16 06:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by astro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do thank so. When the south was hanging black people they always hug the Confederate flag to let every one know that they where the ones that did it, and when slavery time was at hand they hung the flags to let every one know that they do not feel that black had the same rights as they did. to them.
2007-01-16 05:59:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can white people in the south NOT understand why we blacks in America HATE that flag that waved when men were fighting for the right to OWN SLAVES and emblazoned on the backs of horses ridden by clans men in search of "uppity negras tryin' to vote" and the image of it waving as crosses burned or our daughters raped our men hung.
I get Southerners have pride but life in the south was two different worlds when it came to black and white and NONE of it is easily forgotten.
2007-01-16 05:55:26 · answer #9 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's absurd that blacks whine about this flag. It was the south's flag when they broke away from the union. Now it is southern pride, nothing more. It had nothing to do with slavery. This flag is more appropriate to fly on American soil than the African or Mexican flags.
2007-01-16 08:00:36 · answer #10 · answered by Lord Vader 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋