We need to fly Union battle flags

[orthoclad]

17. A lot of symbols are ambiguous

Look at the Nike post above. That makes me think of Douglass' "What is your Fourth of July to the slave?" Or for that matter, to the Shawnee.

But there's less ambiguity about North vs Dixie battle flag. There was one clear reason for secession.

And the north wasn't the shining city on the hill. 750,000 people died; nobody's hands were clean. I sometimes wonder if letting the South go and welcoming escaped enslaved would have been better; the plantation economy would have collapsed without the stolen labor. But the North didn't want "those people" either, except on the battlefield.