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Originally Posted by Grey Ghost
The Confederate Battle Flag is being just as misrepresented on that sign as it was with the bikers, KKK, and rednecks that displayed it fortheir own agenda over the last decades. I think she is just trying to stir the pot for her agenda.
When I see it. I think of the CW battlefields and soldiers. It is to the point these days (due to the PC of the last 15-20 yrs.) that it isn't even displayed at many of the national battlefield parks.
That is it's real history. Used on the battlefield to guide soldiers. Other people have been forced to believe it represents something else by the groups that I mentioned.
My GG-Grandfather fought and died under that flag. It was furled in 1865, and in my opinion should have only been brought out for special purposes - veteran funerals, parades, reenactments, CW history, etc...but, those groups of people have turned it into something else.
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I never viewed the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of racism; as you say, it was used in battle to guide soldiers. Even my
alma mater, Ole Miss, no longer call its athletes Rebels. They're now the Black Bears or something like that. "Col. Rebel" was a cartoon character who never acted racist nor said anything racist. He was simply a damned mascot!
Is Georgia racist for having a bulldog as its mascot? Or the LSU Tigers? Come on, folks...you're reading way, way too much into these "symbols".