Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.