The confederate flag is about history not about hate and racism.
Get your facts straight the Confederate Battle Flag today finds itself in the center of much controversy and hoopla going on in several states. The cry to take this flag down is unjustified. It is very important to keep in mind that the Confederate Battle Flag was simply just that. A battle flag. It was never even a National flag, so how could it have flown over a slave nation or represented slavery or racism? This myth is continued by lack of education and ignorance. Those that vilify the Confederate Battle Flag are very confused about history and have jumped upon a bandwagon with loose wheels.
People in the south were not the only people who owned slaves. The fact is Entirely untrue. Many Northern civilians owned slaves. Prior to, during and even after the War Of Northern Aggression.
The Confederate flag was not flown on slave ships. The fact is NONE of the flags of the Confederacy or Southern Nation ever flew over a slave ship. Nor did the South own or operate any slaves ships. The English, the Dutch and the Portuguese brought slaves to this country, not the Southern Nation.
BUT, even more monumental, it is also very important to know and understand that Federal, Yankee, Union ships brought slaves to America! These ships were from the New England states, and their hypocrisy is atrocious.
Read your history. Quit screaming slavery...Just because there is a few bad apples out there does not mean all americans are bad.
Read the facts of the Confederate Flag history here.
http://www.rulen.com/myths/
Stop using using history to divide our country. There is no slavery in our country today. Not everyone looks at the confederate flag as a symbol of racism or hate. Removing a symbol of history is not going to change the way people feel. One the flag is removed they will find something else to complain about and eventually there will be nothing left in America.
Sign the petition lets keep the confederate flag flying.
