Confederate Debate

From USA Today:
"Confederate flag at old N.C. Capitol coming down"

A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns. The decision was announced Friday evening, hours after the Associated Press published a story about the flag, which officials said was part of an historical display intended to replicate how the antebellum building appeared in 1863. The flag had been planned to hang in the House chamber until April 2015, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of federal troops in Raleigh. "This is a temporary exhibit in an historic site, but I've learned the governor's administration is going to use the old House chamber as working space," Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz said Friday night. "Given that information, this display will end this weekend rather than April of 2015." Kim Genardo, the spokeswoman for Gov. Pat McCrory, said the exhibit that includes the Confederate battle flag will be relocated, possibly across the street to the N.C. Museum of History. The decision was a quick about-face for the McCrory administration, which initially defended the display. Many people see the flag as a potent reminder of racial discrimination and bigotry. The presentation of the Confederate battle flag at state government buildings has long been an issue of debate throughout the South. For more than a decade, the NAACP has urged its members to boycott South Carolina because of that state's display of the flag on the State House grounds.  David Goldfield, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of the book "Still Fighting the Civil War," said the battle flag can hold starkly different meanings depending on a person's social perspective. "The history of the Confederate battle flag, how it was designed and formulated, how it has been used through the years, clearly states that it is a flag of white supremacy," Goldfield said. "I know current Sons of Confederate Veterans would dispute that, saying 'Hey, I'm not a racist.' But the fact remains that the battle flag was used by a country that had as its foundation the protection and extension of human bondage."

^ The Confederate flag should be banned in the US along with everything honoring the Confederacy just like the Swastika and Nazi things are in Germany. Both the Confederacy and Nazism had the same goal - racial purity - and by displaying and honoring Confederate things only praises racism. Lets not forget that it was the South and the Confederacy that started the Civil War that killed so many people and that they lost - thankfully. When I lived in Virginia the Southerners called one main road the Jefferson Davis Highway while Northerners called it Route 1. You could tell where a person stood just by how he/she called the road. One way recalls bigotry and the other freedom for all. It seems you can tell a lot by a name. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/29/confederate-flag-nc/2036121/