Do you think the confederate flag is a racist symbol?
NeutronBomb
2012/07/29 22:20:38
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Top Opinion
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Bob, the reasonable one 2012/07/29 22:25:21no
+15It's a matter of history, anyone who acts outraged over it is simply looking to be "outraged"
The NeoNazi an Southern KKK Alliance flag
You get the picture yet?
The "stars and bars" was created by a rebel nation seeking to perpetuate human slavery.
Actually my Native American ancestors used it as a "good luck" symbol, but you don't see it on any newer jewelry or bead-work, because of our history. My Dad's regiment, from Oklahoma was mostly Native Americans, and they liberated a couple of concentration camps in Germany during WWII. Nobody had to explain what the swastika stood for. When they came home the word went out.
I don't automatically apply anything to anyone who chooses to fly any flag, but I can understand why to some folks many flags are still seen as a symbols of oppression.
During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II. By the end of the nineteenth century, the swastika could be found on nationalist German volkisch periodicals and was the official emblem of the German Gymnasts' League.
n 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster." (Mein Kampf, pg. 495)
On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, the red flag with a white circle and black swastika became the official emblem of the Nazi Party. But since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death whi...
During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II. By the end of the nineteenth century, the swastika could be found on nationalist German volkisch periodicals and was the official emblem of the German Gymnasts' League.
n 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster." (Mein Kampf, pg. 495)
On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, the red flag with a white circle and black swastika became the official emblem of the Nazi Party. But since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.
http://history1900s.about.com...
I would certainly say no.
However, it is the flag of the side that went to war to protect a way of life made possible by slavery. So, whether we want it to represent slavery & racism, I'm very sorry to say it does.