Nascar bans Confederate flags

[*jason*]

(06-13-2020, 02:09 AM)Millhouse Wrote: There is no place for that flag to fly anywhere in the world we live in today. Fortunately the North won the war that culminated with fixing the greatest mistake by the founding fathers by freeing the slaves. Unfortunately the South won the aftermath of the war for about 100 years with legalized segregation, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, etc. And they made sure to remind the black population of their extreme racism of past and present with things such as Confederate monuments in public areas and flying the Stars and Bars wherever they could, even on government buildings.

So yeah, better late than never to rid our society of this symbol of a four year old confederacy with slavery as the main cornerstone. It should have been banned back in 1865 imo, like how Germany has banned the Nazi flag and such to exist. But very few would have cared back then and over the decades since the Civil War as the country was full of racism, legalized or not.

It wasn't banned back then for the same reason we didn't put Robert E. Lee or anyone else on trial. The idea was to heal the nation (imagine that). They were allowed to keep their land, guns, horses... All of it. Confederate soldiers are classified as US veterans. I don't really care about that flag, but we're better than Germany (at least for most of my life I thought so). We don't need to ban symbols from society. If NASCAR doesn't want it there, cool... If some rednecks wanna fly it on their porch, that's cool too.