Kevin_Kennedy
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If they don't view the U.S. flag, a flag that flew over a slave country for nearly 100 years, in the same way they view the Confederate flag then they're being inconsistent. The Civil War was a war between two slave-owning parties: the Union and the Confederacy. So no, there is no moral high ground when one is applying different standards to different flags.It represents both in that it represents a historical episode that very much involves racism and slavery. That being said, in as much as the Confederate flag represents racism or slavery, so does Old Glory. Remember that slavery wasn't outlawed in the United States until the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in late 1865, which is not to mention the racial strife that followed for, if we're being generous, the next 100 years. So no one has the moral high ground to criticize the flying of the Confederate flag.
Actually, every family of former slaves has that moral high ground. By the way, there is probably not a single African American in this country who views the star spangled banner as an emblem of racism. They likely do, however, view, to the last man, woman, and child, the confederate flag as a symbol of racism. Surely you've figured this out by now.