Flag Day!!!!!
It’s ‘Flag Day’ and I’ve got my Rebel flag flying high!!!!!!!!
You know what gets me about that flag, what people think it stands for. The only thing it stands for is ‘Southern Heritage’ just like any other flag stands for the state or the country. It really ticks me off for someone to say it stands for ‘Hate’. Hate of what? I never owned any slaves and flew that flag to prove it and I honestly don’t think anyone else flew the Rebel Flag to symbolize they owned slaves.
Besides, it wasn’t the white man that captured the blacks and made them slaves. It was other Africans that captured them and sold them for slaves. I don’t agree with slavery at all but if you ask me, what our country did to the American Indians was far worse. We took their land, their way of life, and worst of all, we broke their spirit in the process.
Sure there were some slave owners that were really terrible to their slaves but think of this; If you bought a new tractor and paid a pretty good price for a good tractor, are you going to go out and beat the tractor with hammers and tear it down? Heck no, you’re going to take care of it so it can work good for you for a long time. Most slave owners treated their slaves the same way.
I know of a black man with a rebel flag on the front of his car and he understands that all it stands for is ‘Southern Heritage’. That’s someone who is a man not looking for an excuse to act this way or that way. He’s got it together and is his own man. I admire him for that.