Pro-Confederate flag rally held at S.C. Statehouse

[Uncle Joe]

30. Try to wrap your thinking around this, the North and the South were both racist.

Not just during the Civil War but even unto this day, there are racists in every region of the nation, not as many as there used to be, but they are still here and they know no borders.

I have no doubt some people would love to hoist the sins perpetrated over hundreds of years solely onto a racist nation that existed for 4, perhaps to whitewash any connection of their own nation's past evils and salve their conscious. They like simple answers to complex issues and the world is comfortable when its' nothing but black and white. They glory in their self-righteousness and pat themselves on the back, evil has been vanquished because a hated colored cloth has been taken down.

The First Amendment is a living right, it doesn't belong in a museum, if the elected representatives of of S.C. or any other state wishes to fly the Confederate Battle Flag or some version thereof, they have every right to do so. If they decide to take the Confederate Flag down, more power to them, but continuous vitriol from condemning people; with no mote in their own eye only serves to keep a festering wound open and strengthen their resolve to keep flying a flag of defiance.