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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric Mason who wrote (11728)	2/21/2000 12:43:00 AM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 769667

>>I am from the south and the rebel flag is part of American history. Are you so against history as to abolish it. Or do you have some other agenda as with the individuals mentioned above. If a southern state wishes to fly that flag that is there right because it is part of there history. That is what the civil war was all about, freedom of choice. And to have representation regarding taxation. The slavery issue at best was an afterthought. Though it was wrong it is not what the civil war was about.<< There are very few historians that agree with you. The Civil War was very much about Southern resentment and fear of the abolitionist movement which was gaining steam after the Missouri Compromise. All these other arguments are smokescreens concocted by people who want to whitewash the southern past, and expunge some of their guilt at the acts of their ancestors. If the Civil War wasn't about slavery, why did the South move so quickly to create quasi-slavery conditions through frequent lynchings, Jim Crow laws, denials of voting rights, etc. Just an afterthought? Puh-leeeze, brother, you're going to have to do better than that. Yes, I favor burning every copy of the Confederate Flag, along with the Swastika, the Imperial Flag of wartime Japan, and the charter of Bob Jones University. But that's just me. The First Amendment guarantees everyone's right to wave hate symbols in the faces of their "misguided" victims.