Russia is and was famous for rewriting and rearranging history, with leaders changing the names of cities such as swapping Leningrad for St. Petersburg, and removing former government leaders who lost favor from historical photos. History is always a bit messy as trends change and what was once acceptable becomes unacceptable over time. It is arrogant and idiotic, however, to judge past events by current standards, because history is all about context. Inevitably, those seeking to condemn past actions or standards have an agenda, and they want to overlay guilt by association on those who would suggest that history simply is and should be respected and left to stand on its own, within its own contextual framework.
This is clearly being shown in the nonsensical demand by race baiters and liberal firebrands that the confederate flag be excised from history and removed from public exhibit in any shape or form. The narrow minded and bigoted protesters would have us believe that the stars and bars represent only one thing, and that is the history of slavery. That is ignorant beyond belief, and it shows how misguided the protesters are when considering southern history and culture. Unfortunately, Democrat politicians are determined to pander to this overblown expression of concern, and so the rich history of the south is denigrated and dismissed as the flag is hidden away in closets and drawers, out of sight from the public eye.
Confederate flag hidden from view and history rewritten, page 2:
How am I disgusting ? I’m not the one that celebrates a heritage built on the backs dehumanizing and enslaving fellow God’s children.
The southerners were separating young black girls and women from their families, dehumanizing them and raping them long before the Civil War so you can’t use that as an excuse. You also can’t use anti-North propaganda made up by the south because a superior General Sherman marched across the south and liberated slaves as he went. You can’t rewrite history.
Unless you’re not an American citizen, the Honorable President Obama is your president too. I would ask what you mean but it’s probably some stupid answer I’ll laugh at anyway so why bother.
Sometimes people in some states are ignorant and make bad decisions like for slavery, segregation, against interracial marriage etc. that’s when the federal government has to right the wrongs.
I take it you’ve never studied the Civil war? In 1861 it started over states rights over Government overreach. In short, about MONEY!! The emancipation proclamation didn’t come about until 1863 when the war was already 2 years old. Europe was preparing to recognize the CSA so Lincoln had to do something to stop that from happening. Especially after all the defeats the North was suffering, thus the Emancipation proclamation. What you probably don’t know is the proclamation only affected the Southern slave states, not the Northern slave states like Kentucky, Maryland, etc. Lincoln didn’t want them to secceed either. You can look all this up Steve if you have more than the common core education. Thousands of non-slave holding confederate soldiers had already perished before slavery even became an issue. Actually 99% of southern soldiers never owned a slave. Read up on the Civil war before you say something dumb.
To ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE THIS FLAG
$#%&!@*YOU
where can I buy a flag like that ?
WTF GET THE AMERICAN HATEING PEOPLE OUT OF CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT
Then what the$#%&!@*is it then you dumb$#%&!@*idiot
To know where we are going we need to be reminded of where we have been leave our flags alone embrace it as a reminder never again!!!!