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Originally Posted by Acey
Thanks for the history lesson, as I knew nothing of my heritage prior to reading that. Your accusation that I don't realize what's bad about the flag is unfounded, as I have made my position clear: I don't care much for the people who are all of a sudden the biggest advocates for the flag to come down, and secondarily I feel removing the flag doesn't do much to solve the problem whereby America is "steeped" in racism, as Stewart said... but I concur that's a step in the right direction.
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I just don't see how you can claim that the Nazis are dramatically worse than was slavery. Slavery was atrocious and lasted a whole lot longer than Hitler's reign did.
America is still steeped in racism and will continue to be, unfortunately. But perhaps if we can stop celebrating the Confederate flag, and stop celebrating the leaders of the Confederacy, stop having statues of men who were vocal and violent supporters of slavery, then perhaps we can stop pretending as if that period of this country's history was anything other than complete and utter terrorism against black people. Maybe with that, accepting how awful it was, we can start to accept the wrongs that this country has been involved in, and thus work toward actually doing something about the problem rather than just ignoring our history and saying racism is over because we have a Black President.
Dropping the Confederate flag is a small step, but it's a step in the right direction, and it should've been done ages ago.
As far as people being suddenly strong supporters of the flag coming down--how many people outside of the SC capital do you suppose were even aware that the Confederate flag was flying outside of the Capitol building? I would imagine it was less that no one cared about it being there until a racist incident, and more that most people had no idea that there was a state that thought waving that flag on government land was a good idea in 2015.