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Someone asked this over in the Country Music section, but I think some of you would be able to offer some insight. It's about the Rebel flag. Thanks!
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Answer 1

I am astounded that this question was asked by a woman of color.

People have been crjacked in my neighborhood for driving through with the confederate flag.

Talk about culture shock. I mean why not ask if a burning cross is an inapropriate lawn decoration for Christmas?

As an atehist, all I can say is "Lord help us"!

*edit* Never about slavery? What happened to education in this country? Look, I have no illusion that Lincoln set out to free the slaves, but the slave owning states wanted to add more slave owning states to the Union. If the South wasn't worried about becoming out numbered, they never would have succeded. And the "States Rights" issue you speak of was the right of the state to condone and regulate slavery. Again, lord help this nation.

Answer 2

the confederate naval flag also known as the rebel flag... it's not racist even though racist use it. the actual men of the confederacy had a hard view on the constitution that they felt compelled to fight and die for. they felt that a federal government would corrupt and end up over taxing and taking over our lives. god's and generals was a really good movie that explains their point. i don't see the south infested with racist but they are here as well as other places beyond the south throughout the world as well as in the north. some of the stuff unleashed on the south is and has been propaganda. there were black people, native americans as well as white men that fought and died under the confederacy. in most of their minds racism wasn't the issue for war. it was fear of a federal government taking over and railroading everyone. if you look at some of what abe lincon had done i can see why they may have been worried. that is a period in the past that should be studied to avoid conflict of that sort in the future between the differences in our thoughts and ways... the truth is being from the south doesn't make you a bad man and being from the north doesn't make you a good man. vice versa...

personally i see both sides of the coin. i cherish freedom of ideas, thoughts, religion and speech. however, i am a man of balance. checks and balances is good for this country. a balance of power. no man made government is perfect but the founding fathers of this country were absolutely amazing in what they layed down. a federal government is good if the local government corrupts. god help us if they both corrupt.

Answer 3

The US flag is a flag of slavery, but you do not see it being attacked. Was it not the flag that flew over the slave trader's ships (as opposed to battle flag). Was it not the flag that flew over the capital when the Dred Scott Decision was rendered?

The Stars and Bars has been hijacked by racists and used as a symbol of their independence (much like the swastica).

However, the Battle Flag had little to do with slavery and more to do with economic freedom and states rights.

It was the US flag that sought to oppress the agricultural society of the south by mandating them to surrender their economic freedom (only after the north had purged themselves of the scourge of slavery).

Funny thing is, without the south, the Revolutionary war would never had been won, we would still be under the King's rule, and slavery would have continued unabated until the invention of the internal combustion engine, the cotton gin, and economic forces. At worst, slavery in the south would have lasted another 20-30 years without having to shed the blood of 500,000 men on the battlefields of the USA.

Answer 4

I find the situation interesting. Some find the flag offensive and others see it as a piece of history. I would say it depends on the motivation of the person displaying the flag.
The rebel flag reminds me of Dukes of Hazzard and the General Lee. Life is so confusing.

Answer 5

It was the battle flag that the Southern States carried when fighting for independence from the Northern states. It was about states rights and never about slavery. Those that say it was about slavery are just revising history. The millions who fought for the South did not care about slavery and few people owned slaves. If it was about slavery why were there more blacks fighting for the south than for the North?

In Christ
fr. Joseph

Answer 6

That flag was the flag of the Confederacy.

Its the flag which stands for keeping black people as slaves.

Pastor Art