Nascar bans Confederate flags

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(06-18-2020, 05:05 PM)Bruce Wrote: i get how blacks feel differnt about it and how it means different things for there people. all im saying is that just cause people has confederate flags dont mean theyre racist or bad. i mean plenty of nasty shit has been done under the american flag but i still love that flag and fly it proudly an dont think you can say the flag isa bad cause bad shit was done in the name of the Flag. 

and what I am saying is that the flag existed for less than 4 years as a representation of an armed rebellion against our nation that was based on the preservation of slavery. The South has since engaged in a propaganda campaign to promote the myth of the Lost Cause in an attempt to suggest it was not about slavery, but in addition to it 100% being about slavery, the iconography of the confederacy was used for decades afterwards to promote violence against Black Americans and Jim Crow laws.

The difference between the Confederate flag and the US flag is that, while the US flag flew under dark times, it flies under our best times as well. The US grew to (mostly) respect and protect the rights of all while the Confederacy, which only existed for 4 years out of the 413 years that this land has been colonized by the present inhabitants, only ever stood for treason and slavery.

Ignorance of history doesn't erase the history attached to relics of an immoral cause.