While I appreciate the sentiment, no one needs to stop collecting Civil War crap. They just need to stop being racist assholes.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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Um... Not an informed comment. While the flag is certainly not the cause of anything it is a symbol for many, many things. And allowing it to be so pervasive in society is a slap in the face to all African Americans and decent people who have moved past that horrible period. While good people use it to mean something "different", so, too, it is argued, there, are multiple usages for "faggot" and "gay". But that doesn't take away the fact that it also means something very wrong and horrible to others. It's like saying I don't mind people using pink triangles and stars of David patches to identify gays and Jews as long as they aren't homophobic or anti-Semetic. But those things have a history that can't be unlearned or forgotten.
I think you're conflating "flying" (above state capitols!) and the completely legal right to buy/sell stuff in stores/online and collecting/trading.
The flag should have never been up as an official government symbol once its fate was decided, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Thanks, Kenneth, you're right on both counts, and I'm not saying this because I live in the south.
I've personally never known or been around anyone with a confederate flag or flag images on collectables, but there is history that's being ignored - the "stars and bars" is not actually the flag of the confederacy, and many appearances of the flag at state capitals and on state flags started as a political statements against the battles for integration and civil rights - disgusting, and long past being addressed.
Chris Hayes presented a short history of the real confederate flag last night, and how the "stars and bars" rose to its prominence in the south during the 50's and 60's, I learned a lot:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-real-history-of-the-confederate-flag-470273603740
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