That's something ya don't see every day.
Good for him!!
Many years ago, I had a young soldier put up a Confederate flag in his room. All the blacks were up in arms and demanding it be taken down. As Platoon Sergeant, I told them that I'd get him to take it down, but all the flags they had up would have to come down also. Never heard another word.
That's true!
I was impressed by this statement in the article about the young man:
"Thomas, who says he prefers to be called black rather than African-American, adds that he believes the Confederate flag is a sign of Southern pride, and not racism."
Most South Africans are white, wonder how many here knew that. Most people in general do not. At least of those I have spoken to on the subject.Screws with people's minds when they find out he's white.
Then he's an idiot, because the "rebel" flag was never used by the confederacy.
I have a friend who was born in South Africa, and later emigrated here and became an American citizen. Now, he's one who can put "African American" on his documents and really be correct.
Screws with people's minds when they find out he's white.
I question the point of displaying a symbol of not just despicable values, but an utterly failed attempt to uphold those values.
But ff he wants to display a symbol of ignominious defeat, well I guess that's his 1st Amendment right.
Most South Africans are white, wonder how many here knew that. Most people in general do not. At least of those I have spoken to on the subject.
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Please read your history. The War was much more about States' Rights than it was about slavery. You've heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, have you not? Would you care to hazard a guess as to which of the two argued in favor of slavery?
I think, and shall try to show, that is wrong, wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into Kansas, and Nebraska — and wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world, where men can be found inclined to take it.
This declared difference, but as I must think, cover real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world — enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites — causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty — criticising the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.
Not a flag for the nation, but adopted as a battle flag for some units including the Army of Northern Virginia. The battle flag was used in the canton of the Stainless Flag (Last style flag used by the CSA).