What the confederate flag represents to blacks (LTTE)

[struggle4progress]

Mr. Cero ... suggested race relations might improve if blacks were to accept the majority Southern view of the Confederate Flag. Actually, blacks whole-heartedly accept the current Southern view of the Confederate Flag and all it represents. Perhaps Mr.Cero confused the words majority and minority ...

His lengthy opinion makes no mention of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups that continue to raise that banner with pride. It is always with them and certainly is a part of their wonderful Southern heritage ...

My wife attended an integrated school as a senior in 1969. Why was it that almost all who gathered daily protesting integration waved that flag at the black students? Was that a display of Southern tradition? We know that flag has been present at almost every lynching and atrocity that blacks have had to endure right up to the present horror in Charleston ...

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article34237488.html

[TexasTowelie]

1. K&R

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2. The Southern Swastika is nothing but a symbol of hate

It should be outlawed or at least placed along side the Nazi swastika. It represents the white southern stereotypical bible thumping racist. It disgusts me that fools in and around where I live equate it with Jesus and the US flag.