What is it. Some people claim that they fly the con flag to express southern heritage and/or southern pride.
Dunno. Why do you fly the flag of a sports team? Or wear their shirts or hats? Why do you wear clothes with a Nike logo? Does that mean you support slave labor? Why do you use an IPHONE? Do you support Chinese oppression?
Why do liberals ask such stupid ******* questions? Are they pro retardation?
Aw byatch, at the core of southern "pride" is the heritage of black chattel slavery and white supremacy. The rebel flag is the war symbol marking the fight to preserve that lost peculiar heritage. Most poor white southerners pine for a cause that really isn't theirs except to be included as onlookers in a system where wealthy plantation owners gave them something to be "proud." Blacks and wealthy whites built the old south...poor whites contributed very little and were often worse off than black slaves. The rebel flag is an icon they wave "proudly to show how utterly stupid they are/were.
I'm a black man (born in the South). Might I suggest that you actually LEARN about the Civil War before you throw your invectives about the people of the South?
Abraham Lincoln s Letter to Horace Greeley
Executive Mansion,
Washington, August 22, 1862.
Hon. Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir.
I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptable in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time saveslavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.
Yours,
A. Lincoln.
I realize that you will not understand this, however, there were slaves in the North, as well as the South. I also realize that the vast majority of liberals like to live in the notion that the Civil War was fought to "free slaves" but this is a lie (or a misrepresentation) for the convenience of chest puffing.
Mr Lincoln - who had no compunction about suspending laws, throwing Newspaper editors into prisons for failing to "follow orders" is deified, to this day as the "Man who freed the slaves" when, in fact, it was a priority so far down on his list, that it wasn't considered until nearly the end of hostilities and then, only as a means to curry favor with the industrialists of the era. Sad truth, but truth nonetheless.