Why the Confederate Flag is Racist

I’m not gonna lie. This guy is a good debater. Anyone in the comments that disagreed with him, lost the argument with him. Respect!!!

Well put! The gain in popularity during the Civil Rights Era is something I really try to push in conversation. It was meant for intimidation in most cases, clearly.

That is not the Confederate States flag. Get it right, that was the Confederate States BATTLE FLAG!

Let’s not forget when you say the confederacy killed 360,000 Americans, an equal or more amount of Americans died on the southern side. They may have fought for the south, but they’re still Americans as much as the north…

This is the only flag 🇺🇸 ya hillbillies U.S.A.

still gonna fly it 😂

get bent loser. you know nothing

Uh. Slavery was started and maintained under the US flag. Remember people. The only thing that makes anything racist are the racist people that scream Racism all the time.

This video made some good points. However, if you are not from the south, you honestly don't get it. Southerners DO use this flag simply as a symbol of southern pride. I am from the south and grew up around a lot of very decent and good people that flew that flag every day.

I'm actually from the South of the Peach State. The Northern Union solders had African American slaves to fight with them. Some were racist in the North. The Southern Confederacy had slaves to fight with them. If not, then the North will kill them. In my family, my great grand pop was a Confederate soilder in the Civil War. In my opinion, Rebel flag as a "racial flag" I see it as a Southern Heritage. Yeeh Yeeh! ❤️🤟

The CSA was a slave supporting country for only 4 years, compared to the USA's 80+ years. The southern states succeeded before the "civil" war started, Lincoln choose to start the war so he is responsible for all of the deaths on both sides. Winning the war doesn't change that.

Slavery only became an issue because of the North. The north imported the slaves before the US was founded and after the population grew to the point when slavery was no longer needed is when the North decided to abolish it.

If you have a problem with the Confederate flag, too fu*k*ng bad!

People need to understand that this is misleading. The south was fighting for state rights, NOT just Slavery. This is the problem with society.

Flags aren't racist. People who use it for racist purposes are.

It’s only racist if you make it out to be!!

I grew up in Texas. I believe some see it as racist, some see it as just representing southern states. None are wrong but don’t judge people on what they believe in. And besides this is the rebel flag, not the official confederate flag. I genuinely don’t mind the flag, and I actually like it. Am I a racist? No not at all, but it does genuinely express southern pride. No different than flying a flag from another country.

I was born and raised in Italy, I LEGALLY migrated almost 20 years ago in This great country and finally became a proud new American citizen.

I pledged allegiance to the United States flag. The Rebel flag doesn’t represent me but preventing folks to wave it with pride is absolutely anti-American.

The first amendment protects everyone’s expressions.

If you don’t like that flag, just look away.

I’m so sick and tired of this woke snow flake generation.

After more than a century people must move on.

Ah, I hate to tell you that there were slave states that fought with the North to keep the union whole. Had the South not seceded, slavery would have continued until people realized slavery was evil and blacks were not sub-human.

Excellent video shows how ignorant people are!!!

Its not racist 🤯

Remember the name “Senator Storm Thurmond” a KKK - who officiated at his funeral and always spoke very highly of him?? JOE BIDEN AND HILLARY CLINTON!! Let that sink in. Don’t ever forget. 🤬🤬🤬

I can make the same argument about the Union or California state flag. In 1862, California governor Leland Stanford (who founded Stanford University), called the Chinese an inferior race. In 1931, the state also passed a law that barred the marriage between Asians and Whites. The United States government, under the Union flag, wasn't too kind to Native Americans, Asians, German or Italian citizens and the Irish. During WW2 German and Italian Americans were screened or surveilled by executive order, interned or denied property and employment. Just as the Japanese had been. Boston had violent busing riots in 1974 and in the 18th Century, was a major slave auction hub. Can we also claim then, that Massachusetts is racist. Am I downplaying the institution of slavery. No, but it was a far more complex issue than people realize. For example, one of the largest investors in Southern plantations, was the Bank of New York. I would highly recommend reading the CSA Constitution. Not just the sections on slavery. Which by the way, could be abolished by any state in the Confederacy, if they chose to do so. As all restrictions were placed on the CSA Congress, not its states. Each state seen as sovereign and independent. This clearly defined in the Confederate Constitution Preamble. The word slavery absent from the Preamble's text. Surely, if the only thing the CSA was worried about was slavery, why is it not mentioned in their Preamble. And yes, hate groups such as the KKK have misused the Confederate Battle flag for their own twisted ideology. However, that was never the intention or purpose of the flag. It was strictly used on the battlefield. Btw, the first flag flown by the CSA was the Bonnie Blue. Why the Bonnie Blue? Because it was the first star, the root of the Confederate flag. Had something to do with Southern colonists declaring independence from Spanish rule in 1810. Out of which came the short-lived Republic of West Florida. I'll give the presenter of this video an A for effort. However, he is somewhat historically inaccurate.

People say the south cant say that that flag is there coulter black are still upset about the civil war so stop getting mad at us for something that hapenned over 100 years ago

The rebel flag is NOT the confederate flag it is only the battle field flag because the real Confederate flag looked too much like the Anerican flag of the union

note you say it was 'adopted' for white supremacy. Whether or not the flag is 'racist' is entirely dependent on the context and intent with which it's used.

The south shall rise again!

These people are racist to the core

So your saying that SOUTHERNERS ARE NOT AMERICANS.

His opinion, although some facts, it's still his opinion. When people like this bring up Racism they are keeping it alive, instead of saying a flag is Racist why not drop it, talk about positive things that show you have gotten over it and have gotten out of the past. Maybe we should get rid of the Democratic party since they are the ones that supported the kkk

I’m just happy to be here. Have a nice day. 😀

no sh sherlock

Strom Thurmond was Joe Biden's mentor. But, we're not gonna talk about that.

if the confederate flag is racist, can I still carry it?

I love the Confederate Flag!

The confederate flag is not racist and just shows how ignorant you really are…

My school thanks is slavery but it's actually the battle of west Virginia of Northerns

the battle flag was part of the confederate flag

History showed us. We can only respect the winners.

If it was about slavery like you say it was does that not mean that the Union had more slaves to fight and win the war? Or does it mean that the Confederates had enough slaves to end a war like any real man would do? I mean I personally say the war started of taxes on high cotton better known as weed today and slavery wasn't even an issue till they made it one! But wouldn't the real slaves here be the ones actually fighting a war no matter how much they was getting paid to do so?

There hasn’t been a decent president since Jefferson Davis

The flag of Isreal is far more offensive. Look at their treatment of non jewish people.

First owning slaves was legal by law then no matter the moral argument black people owned slaves Indians owned slaves anyone who could afford it did and the south had the right to leave and that supreme court ruling is unconditional and just because some idiots use it for hateful reasons doesn't make the flag racist get your head out your ass.

Anyone who thinks the Confederate flag is racist should take a Christian Cross to any part of the planet outside the Western world and see how people there view it or hold up a Peace sign to a Vietnam veteran who was spat on when they came back from Vietnam.
People forget that the same Union army that marched South to free 3.5 million slaves was also matching West to butcher, rape and murder native Americans at the same time. The South was wrong but so was everyone else in the Western world at that time.
Also. Buying 200 Snickers and name brand clothes made in countries that have no basic human rights laws, environmental codes or health and safety standards is no different than buying cotton from the old slave plantations of the South. We didn't end slavery, we just moved the plantations to China which is nothing more than a slave camp of 1.4 billion people and we overlook the horrific human rights abuses taking place there for cheap goods.
LeBron James and people like him are hypothetical idiots.

Battle Flag of Virginia

This is a flag of freedom, its not racist

Imagine calling an inanimate object which cannot defend itself through speech like humans, “racist” mental. And no the first confederate flag was Bonnie Blue, do some real research and not your political guided bull shite.

This entire story is BULLSHIT! Racists groups use this flag, but they also use the American Flag and the Christian Flag as symbols. And the Civil War was NOT about slavery. It was all about money, and the north was going to lose a lot of money when the South started selling their cotton to Europe primarily. There is no way in hell they were able to sell enlistments of northern kids to “go stop slavery and stand up for the Negros in the South” if you think about it. And that was hardly a good sell for Southern men either, since most were dirt poor and didn’t own slaves. It was also the North states that only wanted 3/5’s of slaves to count as people in the census so they could control more seats in congress. Actually go read true historical accounts, not just re-imagined history books, for the real reasons there was a Civil War. All about that money!!!

Actually the confederate battle flag was a square flag not 3 by 5 like the US flag, the confederate flag that is the same shape and size as the US Flag 3 by 5 was created by Disney and Hollywood for use in movies and TV shows around the centennial anniversary of the Civil War.

Also the confederate flag was designed by Democrats and every display of it over state capitols was signed into law by Democrats and every removal of the confederate flag from state capitals was ordered by Republicans.

All claims that it is racist should be viewed by who designed it, who used it, and who stopped it in 1865 and later on in history.

Washing history is popular in 21st century. What BLM brings good to USA? Absolutely nothing, only brought organized crime, criminal gangs and disaster. That is the fact

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