Confederate flag is reprehensible symbol

[struggle4progress]

3 hours ago
Jim Parker
La Crosse

... That system of stolen labor, extortion and death .. built the economic foundation of the national prosperity of the United States and its subsequent industrial, commercial and financial empire worldwide. That flag is a symbol every bit as reprehensible as the Nazi swastika of Germany’s Third Reich, but worse for us because it is our history.

It is a symbol of a lost cause, and that lost cause was slavery and white supremacy.

To pretend that the Confederate flag means something other than that is deeply misinformed, historically inaccurate and conveys a fundamental ignorance of historical reality. It does fall clearly within the context of “making stuff up,” and “believing what you want to believe” and is not worthy as an argument of either intellectual or historical credibility.

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/jim-parker-confederate-flag-is-reprehensible-symbol/article_a8b1c7d5-aec8-5e46-90fe-bdd2e5380734.html

[Chan790]

1. I agree.

I generally view it as the American swastika and it colors my view of the sort of person that would proudly fly it.