It had nothing to do with slavery!
it was the flag of individuals fighting for slavery... so yes, it did (and does) have something to do with slavery
Damn I swear some of you have never read about the War between the States and I bet you believe Lincoln main goal in the war was to free Slaves, am i correct?
It had to do with State Rights versus Federal Government power.
Lee Flag has nothing to do with Slavery except he had it created to make sure his men were not shot by other Confederate Soldiers, and in fact if you actually would read history those that are buried at Arlington Cemetery are buried on land that was donated by Lee family to bury the dead soldiers from the war.
Lee fought for his state and even then did not really agree with them but as being a Virginian he still fought for them.
it had to do with states' right to maintain slavery.
don't kid yourself. the south seceded over slavery. the confederate traitors - every single soldier without exception - was fighting to preserve slavery
Yep, whatever you say and I bet you believe the Confederate Flag is this:
A few things:
The Battle Flag of Virginia is no more a tool of racism as is the United States Flag itself. Before the Insurrection of the South the United States Flag flew over Slave States, and not the Confederate Flag or the battle Flag of Lee.
The Battle Flag of Lee was created so that Confederate Soldiers from other Southern Slave States would be able to know when Lee men were on the field because the Confederate Flag at the time was similar to the Union Flag, and many men were killing because of it.
During the Civil War the Confederate Flag Changed three times from looking like the Union Flag to incorporating the Battle Flag of Lee, and yet Lee Flag was still different because it did not have a white field on it nor a red and white field on it but was just Stars and Bars on a Orange Field.
Now Progressive Liberals love to view the history of the past through their way of thinking today, but the reality is the Northern Union could have given a rat ass if Slaves were freed or not. They were fighting the war to keep the Union together and not to free the African Slave from the Southern State bondage.
The reality is Northern people of that time would have preferred all the slaves had been shipped back to Africa and then let free but that did not happen either.
Now I will admit many of you will write that what I am writing is racist because you were taught in the fifth grade your history about the Insurrection but there was so much your teach left out in the lesson.
Now getting to those kids taking the picture with the Flag and the fact even the School Administrator called the flag those kids were posing with the Confederate Flag show the stupidity and ignorance of the administrator because if he was well educated he would have known the flag he was seeing was indeed the Battle Flag of Lee and not the actual Flag of the Confederate South.
Also those kids have to be some of the dumbest kids too because their ignorance is amusing to me. They would have been better off posing with a Nazi flag if they really wanted to send a message of hate and racism and not using the Battle Flag of Lee, and even then I would say I do not care, and I have Jewish blood in me.
A flag only has meaning if you allow it to have meaning. It is like someone wearing the Irish Flag, the Flag of Scotland or the Mexican Flag and yes to the person that is wearing it it mean something but to me it means nothing because it is just a flag.
Someone wearing an old USSR flag has no meaning to me and yet to many from the Cold War era may disagree with the fact the Soviet Union had it past bloody with Genocide, but again the flag does not mean anything.
The reality is today society is going too far into the political correctness against Southern White people, and yes I do agree racism should not be allow but telling someone they should not own, wear or fly a flag because you believe it mean something is not your right and if you do believe it is your right then one day expect someone to tell you flying the Rainbow Flag or some other flag is offensive to them and because you forced others to conform to your right not to be offended then you will be forced to conform to their right not to be offended.
Now I know many of you will write I am being absurd but what is absurd is telling other what they can own, take pictures with or what they must believe because it does not conform to your reality.
So in the end the Administrator at the school is an idiot, so are the kids, and so are the parents because of the mere fact the flag they are using to claim is the Confederate Flag is not the Confederate Flag and I expect racists to learn the difference so they can mess with those that do not know the difference.
I could walk around all day long in the fifth ward of Houston with the Confederate flag on my hat and no one would even know but if I put the Battle Flag of Lee on it they would think it was the Confederate Flag...
Confederate Flag:
Army of Northern of Virginia:
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