Nascar bans Confederate flags

[*jason*]

(06-13-2020, 08:02 PM)J24 Wrote: As a guy who grew up in the south but comes from a Northern family. I can honestly say I don't get the fascination with the Confederate flag or love affair with the Confederate war heroes. With that being said it's a big deal to a lot of white southerners and that's NASCAR's main audience so this won't end well for them.
To me if you're against corporate censorship and you're for the banning of the flag you are full of crap. If you're for corporate censorship ( like Colin Kaepernick in the NFL) and against this then you are full of crap.

I'm sure there are a million reasons that some southerners love that flag. One of them is very misunderstood in modern times. The average soldier that spilled his blood in that war never owned a slave, and didn't know anyone who did. Most of them never ventured more than 20 miles from where they grew up (until the war), and most likely never saw a slave before that. It's just like it is today... The little man fights the big man's wars. They weren't fighting for slavery. They were fighting to defend what little they had from large foraging armies that had invaded where they lived. It changes as we get farther and farther away, but someone my age may have had their great great grand pappy die in that war. It's also sorta ironic that a guy who grew up in the south, but recently moved to Minnesota and was killed by a cop there started all of this.

I get it... The Klan, neo Nazis, and various other shitheads have waved that flag over the years. It's been used to intimidate, but it's really just a battle flag that a certain group of Americans used during our history. I don't think it has any place on statehouses or anything like that, but "banning" it does nothing to solve any social problems we have in this society. I don't know how we solve the problem, or if there is even a solution at all... But I know that symbolism isn't going to do it.