Nascar bans Confederate flags

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(06-14-2020, 03:25 AM)samhain Wrote: I sort of agree.  I can't say what it's like to be a black person in America, or how it feels to see that flag on a shirt or bumper sticker.  I know that when I learned about the civil war and slavery, the flag I'd seen in my grandpa's basement as long as I could remember certainly seemed a bit more controversial.  Again, it was a weird juxtaposition, because for his time, my grandpa was extremely liberal considering the community he lived in.  My paternal grandparents didn't have a confederate flag anywhere near them, but objectively were far more racist than he was.  

I'll say this:  I won't miss it.  I definitely have judgements about a person who openly flies it, right or wrong.  That said, it's not quite swastika level judgment.  If I see that flag, I practically wish death on whoever wears or flies it.  I've been raised to believe that it's pure evil, and I was raised by pretty conservative people.  

And I think you hit the nail on the head for white folks, its how you were raised. As Kentuckian, my dads sode fought for the South, my moms for the North.  I assume most of yall are from Ohio and Indiana. What youre reared upon is different from what we are taught below the Mason Dixon. The reality is for 99% of us Southerners its simply about regional pride.  No other region in this country espouses such pride, which is why none of you understand said fascination.  Southern culture has a lot to be proud of and Ill be damned if we're going to let this modern revionism go unchecked.   The North has every bit as much to answer for as the South but no one wants to have that honest conversation in today's society sadly.