Nascar bans Confederate flags

[UKWhoDey]

As a Southerner, yeah, it bothers me. This cancel culture is ridiculous. Blacks fought for the Confederacy and owned slaves. There were riots in New York over the draft and the influx of slaves. Lets not pretend this issue was a stark and clear cut one. Hopefully we all are glad it resulted in the end of slavery. We are still fighting today to move forward. But as a Southerner who holds zero ill will towards anyone until they give me a reason to, the Confeeerate flag is simply a way of showing pride in beaing a Southerner. It doesnt translate for you yanks, Nd I absolutely understand why a lot of blacks dont like it. But many of them also understand not every white guy who has that displayed is some racist Klan member. Unfortunately those jackasses co-opted it as a racist symbol, so its hard to come to a resolution or a compromise on the issue until someone shuts those jackasses up.

To me, it's no different than our "S-E-C" chants during football season. There's pride in being from the South, the Confederate flag is an extension of that. Its a complicated history. But dont automatically judge a book by its cover and assume its just some backwards redneck displaying it. The North was responsible for plenty of unspeakable acts and atrocities as well, but since the winners write the history books they get a pass.

The bottom line is this cancel culture and PC b.s. has gone so absurdly overboard. Middle America needs to step up and speak out and say enough.