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What was General Lee fighting for?When I see Robert E Lee named on a school I think about the General.
Yes, but only one of the factions made it the "cornerstone" of their identity.You can spin the flawed past but I don't buy it. We treated Negros badly before during and after the civil war.
That's of course in reference to the "cornerstone speech" given by the vice president of the confederacy. Look it up if you're unfamiliar with it, but the entire basis of the confederacy was "preserving" what they felt was "the moral truth" that "the negro was inferior to the white man".
Despite the fact that Black people weren't treated all that great in the north either at the time, the USA didn't make "black inferiority" part of their national identity and founding documents, the confederacy did.
You can think Neil young is a tool without having to fly a confederate flag to do so. That's not a good excuse.I can tell you it isn't Racism for most it's Southern pride I owned one (you placed me in a bad group in your mind) and if you live in the North you might not understand.
Have you heard the song Sweet Home Alabama "A southern man don't need him (northerner Niel Young) around...." It's tribalism because the flag represented southern states. I didn't buy that flag because I wanted to put Negro in chains. I had a lot of black friends. Don't get me wrong there are a few that think differently. There are racists in all colors.
there's really no other symbol that can be used to represent the "southern way of life" apart from an 1800's relic that has a direct attachment to an entity that specifically wanted preserve white superiority?
it should also be noted that even Lynyrd Skynyrd (the people who performed sweet home alabama) stopped using the flag
Lynyrd Skynyrd denounces Confederate flag, angering some fans
Lynyrd Skynyrd denounces Confederate flag, angering some fans
www.latimes.com
(and met some backlash for their decision to quit using it)
This apparently didn’t sit well with some of the band’s fans back in Dixie, who have taken to the comments section with pained vitriol.
“Good luck with your next release ‘Sweet home Massachusetts.’ I am sure it will climb the charts with a bullet in Yankee-land,” said one. “This isn’t the real Lynyrd Skynyrd anyway. They should have taken a name like ‘Obama’s Politically Correct Sell Your Soul Make Believe Impostors’ or something,” opined another.
I don't think we can blame manipulation for this one.That is a long limb in my eyes I won't speculate on his motives. My brain isn't skewed that way.
Maybe it's the uneducated youth manipulated by the media. The youth hasn't seen what Boomer has. Have you heard Morgan Freeman talk about Race I agree with him, he truly experienced racism. Like him, I believe we've come a long way. If you look for the boogie man everywhere you'll find him that's the way our brains work. Freeman said paraphrase: "If you talk about racism it exists...making it a bigger issue than it needs to be." He comes from a day when there were only handful of blacks in Hollywood. He said in another interview that Holywood today has all kinds of people accepted.
I've spent enough time on this subject and I want to argue lol about something else. We'll have to disagree.
It's pretty clear what the confederacy was about, and it wasn't "preserving southern heritage"...sorry.
Unless you expect me to believe that of all of the symbolism and iconography out there, the only one that can accurately convey "we happen to like the southern way of life and not the way they do things up in Boston" just so happens to be one that had a direct association to an entity that said the the cornerstone of their new country was the "moral truth" that "the negro was inferior" and "who's proper place was servitude"?
Cornerstone Speech - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
C'mon
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