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bijouxbroussard · F
I think they’re stupid and self-hating. To be black and wave the banner of the segregationists is to be pretty confused. Like being Jewish and wearing a swastika.
Billybob2 · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard there were black people who lived in the south though at the time.
bijouxbroussard · F
@Billybob2 Most of my relatives are from the South. When my parents were growing up and the Klan rode through town to lynch people or burn them out, they did it in the name of that flag. When Governor George Wallace blocked black students from attending the University of Alabama, he did it in the name of that flag. When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, several groups of the KKK flew that flag in celebration. Any black person who can ignore all that and embrace the Confederacy is spitting on the graves of our ancestors.
Billybob2 · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard people like HK Edgerton think ignoring the flag is spitting on the graves of our ancestors.
bijouxbroussard · F
@Billybob2 Don’t ignore it. Put it in a [b]museum[/b] where it belongs. It has no place anywhere else.
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@bijouxbroussard Amen 👏🏽.
Billybob2 · 26-30, M
@bijouxbroussard people should have the right to put it in the yard though
bijouxbroussard · F
@Billybob2 They have that right. And others have the right to avoid them. Anyone who flies it is celebrating what it stood for; slavery, segregation, and racism. The only reason it [b]ever[/b] existed was because some Americans fought for the right to own other human beings. And it was resurrected after Reconstruction by the KKK and other segregationists. It’s the equivalent of a swastika. I don’t know anyone, white or black who would fly that flag under the circumstances. I could never consider someone a friend who would celebrate slavery, lynchings or the systematic disenfranchisement of an entire group of people.