All those yankees committed suicide. If you pretend the Civil War never happened, then slavery must have never happened. It amazes me that taking down the flag makes people believe racism will magically disappear with it.
Not sure I understand your point. Maybe Germans should continue to.fly the swastika. You know, so they cannot forget. Surely the entire world can remember a large black eye our country and/or the Germans had and learn from it without having a continued symbol of hate and oppression flying over Our state. No one, and I mean no one is saying that individuals have to stop flying their flag that defines their heritage. Please by all means keep flying it. Gay people fly their rainbow flags, transgender people fly their flag, nazis fly their flag, racist and bigots have their own flag. Everyone defines themselves however they see fit, but our State has a right to fly whatever flag it wants as long as it can accept what that flag represents. I for one recognize the rights of people along with the state's. I just believe our State, along with Our state and Our union are better than what that symbol represents. As long as we are currently linked to this historically racist symbol, well we get what we get.
