You would have to know far more than is taught in today's schools to truly understand. 'The Stars and Bars' has actually nothing to do with racism in most cases except what is in the eye of the beholder. The Civil war had little to do with slavery and everything to do with states' rights. It was a good thing that it ended slavery; but that was not the reason it happened. Further, what actually happened during 'Reconstruction' was so unjust that it created a separate group of states that felt that they were bastard stepchildren of the U.S. For that reason, many people today still want to fly that flag to say something like, "We have not forgotten.".
In fact, there is a hell of a lot less racism in the South today than in the North; but certain people, using isolated anecdotal cases, keep making it seem otherwise. The flap about the flag is one of those cases. Keeping in mind that the SCOTUS has ruled that flag-burning is a protected form of speech, are the people who wish to FLY that flag second-class citizens?
I have not forgotten What the Japanese did...I don't discriminate against them; but I shall never forget. Does that make me racist?
That's MY $0.02...
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