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In reply to the discussion: the confederate flag [View all]Aristus
(66,286 posts)Notice I said "those". Meaning the ones who surrendered. Meaning the Confederates of 1860-65. Meaning not you. Unless you're 160 years old.
Believe me, I understand the hair-trigger defensiveness. I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas to an all-Southern extended family. My mother was born in Montgomery, Alabama 80 years to the day after the Confederate Constitution was approved and adopted in the same city. An ancestor of mine signed the articles of secession for the State of Georgia. Every ancestor of mine who fought in the Civil War fought for the secessionists. I'll match my Southern credentials line-for-line with yours.
If my hatred for the flag they flew, and the motives for which they flew it get under the radar of your will to be offended, that's just too bad.
Now either stand down, or alert.