"I'm bringin' it back" --Clerks 2
spread the word, stars and bars represent rebellion. Like some southerners say "heritage not hate" -- thankfully I can show you "Dukes of Hazzard" the movie -- which had a scene portraying the assumptions of racism on the part of some people. Knowing the characters you would come to understand that they are anything but racist. It didn't matter to them. When spoken harshly to by black citizens driving by their vehicle (the General Lee) with rebel flag on top. . . the viewer saw that some symbols can be misconstrued.
as a child, I was never taught that the stars and bars represented racism, hate, or slavery. By my government indoctrination it was a symbol for a group of people that would DARE to take themselves out of the United States system, and how the good guys stopped them from breaking up the SACRED UNION. Later on it represented to me the ability to secede from a United States that I more and more began to dislike.
It's distressing growing up a 'patriotic' citizen, only to have more and more examples of things I thought were wrong. It's surely not easy waving an American flag as an Eagle Scout when I continued educating myself in history, much more than you get in public schools.
I agree, the confederate flag is a symbol of racism and hate to some Americans. . . and then some other people "get it"