How is a battle flag associated with slavery, Nazism or the KKK in any way by anyone other than the people who misappropriate it for their own hateful purposes? I mean, you do realize, don't you, that the CBF was not the flag of the Confederacy? That would be one of the several flags made prior to the battle flag's adoption, from the original Stars and Bars (that is sometimes
erroneously used when referencing the battle flag), to the Stainless Banner (which was so much white that it was often mistaken for a truce, surrender or parlay signal flag), to the Blood-dipped Banner, to variations of the original State Flag of South Carolina and of what would become the State Flag of Texas.
The Confederate Battle Flag was never the flag of the Confederacy, and was used in the form that flew over the monument at the SC Capitol Grounds until last week as nothing more or less than a signal flag to tell soldiers which way they were supposed to go on the battlefield during the War of Northern Aggression. Flying over a war monument in tribute to fallen soldiers is no more racist than the Stars and Stripes flying over the graves at Arlington or Congress or the Rainbow House fer cryin' out loud!
Of the five or six official Confederate Flags used, two of them incorporated a variation of the CBF within them. One was the Stainless Banner that was mistaken for a flag of truce/surrender, so obviously the CBF part of that flag was unnoticeable and insignificant. The other flag that incorporated a variation of the CBF within it was a naval ensign flag modified only by adding a red bar to the field of white to replace the Stainless Banner and avoid confusion by either sides' forces concerning truce or surrender. So few of those were ever even manufactured that soldiers coming home after the war didn't even recognize it as one of theirs, and recognized the Bonnie Blue Flag as the final Flag of the Confederacy, even though it never was officially designated as such.
The CBF was used just exactly like the Stars and Stripes and Gadsden Flags were used on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, a war that birthed the nation under the abomination of slavery, and under which the nation rallies to this day, but you don't care about that do you? Reliance on truth comes somewhere way down your list of moral imperatives behind your need to slander a whole region of the country whose ancestors are
recognized as veterans by several Acts of Congress every bit as much as the Blue-Bellies who conquered them.
Just curious, but do you see the Founders of this country as traitors too, or is this just the shallow, intellectually-dishonest rantings of someone who supports the victory of the Union in the War of Northern Aggression, but who believes the British weren't entitled to the same victory over traitors? Or maybe you believe they were entitled and believe that the US of A is every bit as illegitimate as the CSA was?
Whatever, your revisionist history doesn't fly any better now than it did
three weeks ago. Quit slandering ~1/4th of the country over issues that the government that paid you for long enough to earn a retirement from formed under the same abomination less than a century before the Confederacy attempted the same kind of separation, both of which legitimized slavery in their founding documents. Your selective outrage belies your utter hypocrisy.
Your bigotry against the South and Southerners says a heckuva lot more about you than The Confederate Battle Flag says about us.
Blues
