Trump defends people who 'love' the Confederate flag and says they're 'not thinking about slavery'

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended people who support the Confederate flag and said they don't necessarily support it because of the Confederacy's deep-rooted ties to slavery.

"Well, people love it, and I don't view — I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery," Trump told CBS News in an interview.

"I look at NASCAR — you go to NASCAR, and you had those flags all over the place," Trump said. "They stopped it." The president was referring to NASCAR's decision to ban confederate flags from all its events.

He also ramped up his criticism of Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's only Black full-time driver. Last month, a crewmember discovered a noose in Wallace's garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. The FBI and NASCAR opened investigations into the incident, and several NASCAR officials and drivers rallied to Wallace's defense in its aftermath.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defends-people-love-confederate-005211934.html

The Civil War ended 155 years ago. It's way past time people stop waving the flag of the losing side.

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1. He's right. Slavery is one specific form of oppression.

They are thinking about white supremacy and all the many ways they can oppress others, particularly black people. They've been finding many ways other than slavery ever since the civil war ended.

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2. German neo-nazis have adopted the confederate battle flag

It is illegal to brandish the swastika in Germany, so they went for the closest thing

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3. They may not be thinking of slavery

But they damn sure are thinking about white supremacy

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4. They're Still Thinking Of Slavery

Back in the good old days.