Confederate flag
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Anonymous
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Could someone please explain to me the two sides of the debate, it's racist/disrespectful to fly it vs. the other side.
I got in a debate a couple days ago with a friend but honestly didn't really know much about the issue and kept quiet most of the time. My only thing to go off of was that an African American friend of mine explained to me that it represents racism, is disrespectful, and does not like seeing it in official gov settings (in the south). My friend (not the AA friend) was saying things like "it's about history and pride" and "it's not about slavery, slavery has been over for a long time". I don't understand her side and wasn't able to really listen because she was saying other things like "well people were racist toward me too" (she's white). Links to information would be helpful too. |
Anonymous
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I will never understand feeling "pride" in an ancestry that tore the country apart and took so many lives, for such a elitist purpose.
Signed, A South Carolinian |
Anonymous
+1 Thank you. It is also an ugly flag now adopted by racists and skin heads. |
Anonymous
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Did you know that Maryland was a slave state that sided with the North and got to keep institute of slavery one year longer than the southern states
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Anonymous
Yes. The Confederate flag is still racist. Slavery is still wrong. |
Anonymous
Does anyone think MD is a nothern state in the real sense? It's below the Mason-Dixon line people! |
Anonymous
+2. Nothing else needs to be added. |
Anonymous
Yes, real southerners consider Maryland to be a northern state. |
Anonymous
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The southern states did not tear the country apart. The northern states did that. The whole war was unnecessary.
Southerners were not more racist. Northern states were dependent on the cotton produced by southern states. Even still today Milwaukee in Wisconsin remains the most segregated city in America |
Anonymous
There were more abolitionists in the north. |
Anonymous
Maryland is a state stuck between regions. Kind of like wv, and many others. |
Anonymous
Oh, really? What do you call that little act of "dissolving the union?" |
Anonymous
Perhaps Southerners were NOT more racist. However, their leaders were willing to start a war to preserve chattel slavery. So I'm not sure it matters that, deep in their hearts, Northerners might have been just as racist. In fact, I'm certain it doesn't matter at all, particularly to the 3 million human beings in bondage in the Confederacy. |
Anonymous
Gee, in my history book the southern states signed declarations of secession. And the North did fine without your cotton during the war. |