Recent events have put the Confederate Flag in the spotlight with many calling for its removal.
I ask the question what is the difference between the Confederate Flag and the American Flag?
The Confederate Flag had about a 4 yr run and awful things were done under that banner. However, do not let blind patriotism allow you to view the US Flag as somehow innocent and noble. Without Question the US Flag has more atrocities and blood on it than the Conderacy could have ever hoped to produce.
Here are just a few examples, in no particular order. Obviously I didn’t/couldn’t list everything (like every war that happened) but here is a good basis for discussion. Feel free to chime in in the comment section.
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1861-1865 |
1777-Present
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Civil WarApril 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865Multiple casualties due to the war itself, plus a host of atrocities and war crimesabout 400,000 Union casualties |
Almost complete genocide of Native Americans aka so-called Indians deaths of estimated 20-40 million based on disease and slaughter |
Supporters of
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – deaths of estimated 10 million + Africans |
General Nathan Bedford ForrestKKK, White Citizens Council |
over 5,000 recorded lynchingslate 18th century through the 1960s although lynchings still occur to the present |
KKK, White Citizens Council, Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, Aryan Nation, Aryan Brotherhood, etc. |
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J. Edgar Hoover – COINTELPROEvery Black Liberation organization has been under attack and hundreds are currently dead or in jail, Civil Rights – Black Power Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, NAACP, Black Panthers, RA, RAM, SNCC, etc. |
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Mass IncarcerationAmerica is 5% of the world’s population but has 25% of total imprisoned people in the world. |
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CIA involvement in introducing Crack Cocaine to the “ghettos” of America 80s-90s |
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Black Wall StreetTusa, Oklahoma 1921 |
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Bombing of MOVEPhiladelphia, PA 1985 |
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Rosewood MassacreRosewood, Florida 1923 |
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Police Brutality & killing of civilians1700 – Present |
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the 13th Amendment (current) |
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True- There is really no difference.. both are AMERIKKKAN rags . Vile Atrocities committed in the name of both rags.
First of all,Dee,there is no reason to insult either flag. It is people that have made them something they were not intended to be. Both flags are deep heritage of the United States and just because they were both around in bad times does not make them what you call rags. The governor of South Carolina should have been asked to resign when she played with peoples heritage by removing the Confederate flag. This country,because of political correctness is turning into a hate thy neighbor country and will soon end up with a mass rebellion all because of people who think we should get rid of everything they do not like but,know very little about..Regards!