whatdidyousay!
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I think it's sad that this has taken on such a life of it's own. Are we now going to block it from history books so children never learn what those flags looked like? Are were now going to remove sections from our history books so they don't "offend" anywhere.
The flag is our history and General Lee was once of the greatest American war leaders in our nation and it was a great blow to the north that we couldn't obtain him. The fact that people are talking about renaming streets is sad. The flag represents all of the fallen soldiers of the southern cause, most of which never owned slaves, much less land. If you asked them why they were fighting, they'd answer "I'm fighting because you're here."
You don't get to re-write history because it's unpleasant for you. The young man involved in that church shooting didn't kill those people because they were black. That's just a story he gave to justify what he did....he did it because he wanted to infamous and because he could. There's no rational reason behind it - just as the excuses that Ted Bundy gave for why he killed all those girls were just that - excuses. Ted killed because he could and it's really not more complicated than that for any of them.....
I consider the confederate flag and our civil war history just another victim of this young man....who probably knew absolutely nothing about either...
Laura
I don't believe that , I really feel the shooter is a racist and was out to kill Black people , he didn't go to a White church , he picked out a Black one. I agree it's crazy to rename streets why do people want to try and
eraser our history , it's not going undo it . I agree we need to keep this in our history books so the next generations of children will know their country history and hopefully not repeat it.