Nascar bans Confederate flags

[*jason*]

(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.  

Yeah... A swastika makes me wanna spit, and the fact that it's sometimes seen in close proximity to the Confederate flag in this country is the reason I have any negative feelings toward that flag at all. Again; I see why people don't like it, and why some people do.