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Originally posted by: Boilerman
Most folks in the South don't think about slavery and racism when they view the Confederate Flag. Most blacks, however, are offended when they see the flag as they have decided that the flag is a symbol of slavery and racism. What's offensive to many blacks is a fast moving target, and history tells us that blacks will view things differently in the future. These new views will be accompanied by new demands.
Slaves used to pick cotton, you know.
That obscure version of the "Confederate Flag" wasn't even that popular in the South for almost 100 years following the war. It only became popular in the 1950's and 1960's. You do you know what happened in the South in the 50's and 60's, don't you?
So the flag is the symbol of George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, black kids being spit on for attending a white elementary school, protesters being arrested for sitting at lunch counters and sitting in the front of the bus, and those three little girls being murdered in - you guessed it - a church. And disgraceful white people making excuses and blaming the civil rights activists. That was the conversation around your dinner table, wasn't it Boilerman?
And waiting until now to call for it's removal is just political opportunism.
