AlfredoTurkey on 01 July 2015
| pokoko said: As someone who has lived in a rural area of the Southern United States all their life, I've never understood why it was allowed to be flown on government property. The Confederacy turned traitor against the United States. It makes no sense. The other funny thing to me is how many people tell me that the Confederate flag stands for the South. Well, sure, I guess, if you were a rich landowner. A poor farmer conscripted into the Confederate army for a cause you cared nothing about, though? Not likely. The Civil War was all about money. Hundreds of thousands of deaths for the sake of wealth. As for the flag itself, it's pretty much become the symbol for bigotry and ignorance in redneck America. I see it all over the place. The people who display it around here aren't necessarily racist but, honestly, most of the time they are. It's pretty obvious why people want to be disassociated from it. As a kid, my father had it up everywhere. I wore hats with it, shirts with it, there is still a couple in the gun cabinet and my tackle box, but I seriously want nothing to do with it. There are a lot of things I like about the South. Listening to racist rednecks rant about the glory of a state that refused to stop treating human beings as animals is not one of them. |
The most hilarious thing about all this is that the confedrate flag isn't even the one banned. lol The original flag used during the civil war was a completely different design/color.
