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In reply to the discussion: Confederate sympathizer named college prez, students rebel [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)It's about time they understood that.
The Confederacy was about slavery, pure and simple. Dressing it up in "states' rights" does not alter that.
I'm old enough to remember the Civil War Centennial, and I recall quite clearly that all of a sudden the narrative changed, and we were now being told that the war wasn't really about slavery, but about something else. The truly weird thing is that I was living in northern New York State, not a part of the Old South at all. But somehow the bullshit about "it wasn't really about slavery" had somehow taken over the whole country.
It was about slavery. And the South was wrong. Pure and simple. And they lost. Rightly so.
So I do not want to hear from anyone that the flag conveys some deep cultural meaning. That deep cultural meaning is about denying basic human rights to others. And that is NOT right.