Friday, August 8, 2014

The Confederate Flag - Symbol of Treason and of Slavery - Or Not

Confederate Flag 

Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)-  A Confederate flag flies at mile marker 134 on Interstate 95 in Virginia, raised by the Virginia Flaggers “to honor the 246,000 Confederate soldiers who fought in separate battles in the Fredericksburg vicinity during the Civil War,” according to Fox News.
They see the flag as a symbol of “pride, not racism.”

However, they are being countered by the NAACP, which says the flag does symbolize “racism, oppression… [and] reminds people of slavery.”

Virginia Flaggers’ Barry Isenhour told The Washington Post that “he doesn’t think of the flag as a symbol of a fight to preserve slavery because” he doesn’t think the Civil War was over slavery to begin with. Rather, Isenhour said the Confederates were fighting against “Northern aggression.
Stafford County spokeswoman Cathy Vollbrecht said there have been numerous “complaints and inquiries” about the flag, but there are no plans to take it down. She said her office determined that “no laws have been violated.”
What do you think? Is this a nod to slavery or tribute to Confederate civil war soldiers?

4 comments:

  1. Let's put it this way--the Confederate flag represents treason in defense of slavery.

    Do Germans fly the Nazi flag to 'honor' German bravery?

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  2. It would be interesting to know how many gun loons who post here have a confederate flag displayed somewhere on their property.

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