Photo Shows McConnell In Front of Confederate Flag. So ?

As I said, to call it an enemy flag, is to call 11 states of the US, and 100 million Americans, enemies. This is bigotry against a large region of the US, and you are the bigot.[/QUOTE]

Sorry when they took up arms against the USA, renouncing their citizenship in order to kill hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, as well as women and children, that made them the enemy.

Yes it is. That rebellion against the US had a lot of people. As for the number, remember only about 1.3% of the people in the south voted for secession. It was done by leaders without a popular vote across almost all states.

And they made it clear why those leaders were breaking away. To protect and expand the institution of race based slavery.



So yes, when that flag flew for one purpose, to oppose the Stars and Stripes of the USA on the battlefield, that made it the flag of America's enemy.

No re-writing of history will ever change that.
 
It's history. It happened. It was one of our most shameful periods. We should be ashamed of it. Not celebrate it.
Part of what should be ashamed of, was the Union invading many areas of the South, that had no slavery, and never even heard of the Confederacy. It was similar to US troops invading backward areas of South Vietnam, whose people never heard of the USA, much less ever attacked or threatened us.

Which part of the south... Which county? Please, I would love you to source that. We have great details from the 1860 Census that goes county by county where slaves lived.

And here is the best part of your hypocrisy. You are saying that the Confederacy started this rebellion. That their leaders of their states put them at war without even telling those innocents? That those people didn't even know about the Confederate flag that forced war upon them. But somehow you think that flag should represent them?

I agree we should be ashamed that rag of a flag is used as a banner for those who didn't even know what they were being forced to fight for.
 
This is typical white westerner thinking. Some white guys start using a symbol in a corrupted manner, it now only and evermore means exactly that. Everyone else must stop using it's true, original meaning because only the white man's corrupted version matters.

So lets use the true original meaning. General Beauregard needed help killing American soldiers on the battlefield. Yes that same Beauregard who also said that all black AMERICAN soldiers who surrendered or were caught should be summarily executed. His problem was his flag looked to close in war to the flag of the USA. So he had a buddy, a fire eater. That was the group of extremist white supremacists that believed owning blacks was a God given right and wanted to re-open the slave trade. That sick fuck was his go to.

And they built a flag that spent it's entirety of its official time as a flag of war against the US to attempt to create a nation who's "foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."

Yup, the flag stood for a war against the USA to protect and expand the institutions of race based slavery.

Now sure since then thousands of blacks have died at the hands and policies of the KKK, Dixiecrats and other white Supremacist groups that have repopularized it. But nothing makes up for the original cause which sent hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to their graves. So the south could attempt to keep race based slavery alive.
 

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