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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are, of course, free to debate whether the Confederate flag represents racism.  However, it is indisputable that the Confederacy was, for its entire existence, an enemy of the United States of America. Therefore, flying its flag is akin to flying a Nazi flag or the flag of another entity that was always an enemy of the U.S. 
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Do you know of any articles that might explain this for in depth? [/quote]

Pretty much any high school history book should do.[/quote]

Doesn't that tell you something about the state of education today in the public schools?

Filtered history isn't history. [/quote]

If the history book you are reading tells you that it was about states rights and stops there, than that is filtered history.  The fact is that to was about the right to practice slavery, and in fact a lot of it came to blows in Congress about not just keeping slavery intact in the south, but expanding it westward into the territories as they gained statehood, and that particular aspect of it is what led to a lot of the run up to the civil war.  Also, if you actually take the time to critically read and compare the CSA Constitution and compare it with the US Constitution you will find that the CSA Constitution affords states less freedoms and asserts more CSA federal control, which runs contrary to the fictions that are spun today.[/quote]

I agree that would be filtered history. Leaving out the original meaning is also filtered history. [/quote]

There's what it USED TO mean, and there's what it means NOW.  Due to the events of history, one meaning has trumped and replaced the other, and you can't particularly go back without first acknowledging and accepting what it actually means now.  The folks who fly confederate flags hate acknowledging and accepting the rest of history and meaning.[/quote]

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