Confederate Flag: Racism or Heritage?

[Noblejanobii]

Yeah I knew that. They actually even referenced that in a Crash Course US History video which you can see here.

I still stand by my opinion that it shouldn't be taken down. I'm going to blunt when I say that America has issues and racism is one that will never be resolved. I wish it would be, but it won't be. The way our Constitution is formatted, our history, and everything about our country is just too much freedom and not enough to prevent eternal conflict. Obviously we've gotten over slavery but the fact of the matter is, racism will always be and there will always be racist people. A flag flying over the Capital building of a state is not going to change that. On top of this, the reason the Nazi flag is banned is because they did mass genocide and destroyed much of Europe. The South, on the other hand, barely touched the North, and while it was the bloodiest war America has ever been in, it was the South that got screwed over. We didn't destroy part of an entire continent. The North did. So, by that logic, the flag that the Union flew should be banned because, who had more casualties? *gasp* The South! And I know the argument is going to be that the South actually didn't suffer more casualties, but I want you to look at the population that served in the South vs the population that served in the North. while it might seem like more northerns died, in comparison population wise, the south lost way more people.

Plus, if we banned everything that offended someone there would literally be nothing. I mean same sex marriage just got legalized, cool, but I can guarantee you if we banned everything that offended someone it wouldn't have been passed.

Also, about it not being in a museum, it is kind of part of our history. We do need to remember it, so keep a Confederate flag that eternally reminds people that the South messed up in a place where people go to review our history seems like a perfectly good idea.

In addition, I would like to point out that the flag that flies over the state house isn't actually the Confederate flag at all. The actual confederate flag had that emblem, yes, but it was tiny in the upper left hand corner of the flag, and was white with red for the rest of the flag. Google "blood stained confederate flag" and that's the actual Confederacy flag. The flag that is over the state house is Lee's unit's flag, the one that he surrendered with. Just clarifying.