Southern racists have used this rhetoric for generations. During the height of Jim Crow, they often claimed it was only Jews “outside agitators” who were making a big fuss about the ongoing oppression of black people. Nice, polite black folks loved riding in the back of the bus. That’s where all the heat was.
What the Confederate flag “symbolizes” isn’t a difficult issue. People who believe the flag of an oppressive slave state embodies “hate” are objectively correct. People who believe a racist flag symbolizes “heritage” are deluding themselves. The actual Civil War lasted four years or just one fifth of a “Law and Order.” That’s a fad. Few people who still defiantly wear high-waisted jeans do so out of a sense of “heritage.”
ady, the “Charleston killer” didn’t grossly misinterpret the Confederate flag like Charles Manson and “Helter Skelter.” It’s not a “small number” of white supremacists who “proclaim the flag as their symbol.” It’s the entire Confederacy that did so. You don’t have to play Alexander Stephens’s “Cornerstone Address” backwards to hear some hidden message. The Confederate vice president was very upfront about what this new nation represented.
RACIST MONSTER: “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics.”
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