In which Recursion rants about the "confederate flag"

[Aristus]

10. I don't anticipate that I'll come around to your way of thinking any time soon.

I grew up in the South. I've seen the damage created by a legacy of racism and hatred spawned by the "lost cause". I've seen people twisted into monstrous shapes by an emotional adherence to Jim Crow. I've seen otherwise sweet and loving people behave like psychotics out of a sense of broached entitlement because they were white and felt they had been denied something.

If the South had picked up and gone on after the war, stating: "Okay, we lost that one; no more slavery. Let's live and let live" we wouldn't be having this discussion. A discussion, by the way, sparked by the continued insistence on flying a flag, however erroneously, that symbolizes hatred, bigotry,and a mis-applied sense of grievance.