When you ask people why they prominently display this flag they claim that it is a part of their heritage, not hate, and something that they take pride in. That's fine I guess, if you want an item representing your heritage that also represents a lost cause, a failure, and a war that killed more Americans than any other war to date. That would be like idolizing the man who brutally slaughtered one of your loved ones or something...it's just messed up. With that said, if that is how you want to represent yourself and you're from the south, then fine. What about all the trash in the north who worship it? They make the same claim, except they had nothing to do with this "heritage," because if I am not mistaken the Yankees owned over those southern bitches in the war. So what have you to be proud of when waving that flag? If you need a symbol to represent your ideology, then why don't you just wear a witty t-shirt?
What people in the north are really trying to do when proudly displaying this flag is piss people off. That is the only logical reason that I could come up with to explain why somebody would want to put this hateful image on display.
I one time was at work, and this customer, who I already knew to be white trash came in. On the windshield of his truck (which he raised up) as a bitchin' decal that read "Redneck." In the bed of a truck he was flying the Jolly Roger. For those of you who live a life of ignorance and aren't up on things that are badass, this is the skull and cross bone flags that pirates such as myself fly. The problem with this was he was flying the Confederate Flag next to the Jolly Roger, which completely negated this guys potential for being a badass. This act is an insult to pirates, scalawags, lumberjacks, marauders, and anybody else that is badass. Because of this, this guy isn't even fit to suck the barnacles off of a pirate's wang.
A popular saying that goes along with this ideal is "The South will rise again!" So what you're saying is the South wants to rise up and divide the country again?
Other assholes claim that it has nothing to do with racism. Of course it does. What many people do not understand about the Civil War was that it had very little to do with slavery. This however, is different than having to do with racism. The South was full of discontent because of the heavy tariffs placed on items by the north, that the south needed to buy. It only became about slavery after the war had started, when Lincoln basically issued the Emancipation Proclamation as an effort to piss the South off. I mean Lincoln is great and all, but who does he think he is? Demanding acts be carried out in what at the time was technically a foreign nation, even though the North refused to recognize this, to do something against their will. Good thing times have changed and the United States would never do anything like that today right? The problem with race comes in after the war. Reconstruction was hindered when the South enacted Jim Crow Laws, which mandated segregation in all public places. Don't tell me race is not involved here.
Then you have the people who are really out there, claiming that anybody who has a problem with the Confederate Flag is racist. The basic argument here dates back to all of our days in elementary school, where are quickest rebuttal to somebody calling us out for something was "it takes one to know one."
The Confederate flag is not something you should take pride in. The flag represents the division of this country, and is one of the most unpatriotic displays a citizen of the United States can achieve.
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