Adding a Confederate Flag to the Decor
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It's okay with me if others dislike the confederate flag for whatever preconceived notion they have. I do have distain for those jurisdictions who deny what the flag is in deference to what it totally is not.
Like the political coward Nikki Haley did in South Carolina.
You can say it symbolizes hate because the idiot crackers in the KKK utilize it as their so-called symbology. However, there are those of us with honored war dead who fought under that flag and as such it is a difficult matter to simply wipe it from the earth as stupid revisionist morons might like to do.
The confederacy is merely a part of my heritage. The flag will take it's place on a wall somewhere yet to be determined. I won't let anyone mess with it, either.
History remains after the desecration ends. The confederacy has been desecrated by the former govenor of South Carolina among many others. There remains a contingent of citizen tax payers who will not let it's memory die.
Dylann Roof and his ilk do not represent the memory of the confederacy and his use of the confederate flag is anathema to that memory. The KKK likewise do not represent the confederacy and project an ignorance which is at once humorous and disturbing.
There were a lot of slave holders in the North as well as the South and the people who brought the slaves here were Dutch traders.
I likewise make no apologies for slavery because I never owned another human being nor wanted to either. This business of holding generations hostage for the past hasn't worked out too well for those seekers of reparations, now has it ?
We cannot help where we're from and who our ancestors were. I am from the deep South and my ancestors fought for both the confederate and union armies. Some of the more poignant stories of my ancestors revolve around the confederacy.