If anger about the removal of the flag is to be focused anywhere, focus on the racists that totally co-opted a flag during the segregation years- a flag that had been collecting dust forever until segregationists started using it for their own nasty purposes. You want to know why most people assume it is racist and divisive? Because the majority of Americans never saw it before the 1950s, and then only when connected to white supremacy. So be mad at those jerks that took over your flag and ruined it for you and dishonored the war veterans.
I am returning from a drive to NC that took us through northeast SC and western NC. Saw some really interesting displays of this flag, guess people think the flag flying over their yards full of trash, and dirty, uncared for children and pets, gives them some sort of pride. I guarantee it has nothing to do with war veterans and everything to do with a sad group of people needing to somehow feel superior to African Americans. They only know this flag represents their " superiority", at least that is how they have been raised. It's all they have in a nation whose population is becoming more diverse and they are scared to be left behind. But they were left behind a long time ago.
I am returning from a drive to NC that took us through northeast SC and western NC. Saw some really interesting displays of this flag, guess people think the flag flying over their yards full of trash, and dirty, uncared for children and pets, gives them some sort of pride. I guarantee it has nothing to do with war veterans and everything to do with a sad group of people needing to somehow feel superior to African Americans. They only know this flag represents their " superiority", at least that is how they have been raised. It's all they have in a nation whose population is becoming more diverse and they are scared to be left behind. But they were left behind a long time ago.
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