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Originally Posted by icenine
The flag is more of a symbol against the Civil Rights movement...it was put up in 1961.
Would you invite a white supremacist (not a relative) to your house?
I wouldn't.
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The Confederate battle flag was indeed resurrected during the civil rights era as a protest against progress toward equal rights for African-Americans. It was during this period that Georgia and Mississippi re-designed their state flags to include the battle flag and that South Carolina raised it atop the State House dome. It was also during this period that the Confederate battle flag began appearing alongside the hakenkreuz at American Nazi Party rallies, as it still does today. And, of course, the Ku Klux Klan has always made, um, liberal use of it.
It is a symbol of hatred, violence, oppression and rebellion. Anyone who doesn't see this is being willfully ignorant.
