What does the Confederate Flag mean to you?

[JSojourner]

I've opined about this before.

The KKK argument is made of fail.  If the KKK using the Stars and Bars makes it a flag of hate, then what do we do with the Stars and Stripes?  Those cowards hide behind it as much or more than the CS flag.

The slavery argument is equally flawed.  Yes, this is the flag of a "country" that not only permitted, but celebrated, human slavery.  I totally get the hatred of that peculiar and diabolical institution.  But how fair is it to assign the Confederate flag a status of "slavery symbol" when the aforementioned Stars and Stripes flew quite contentedly over a slave nation for some 75 years or so.  We finally "got it" and a tad sooner than our Southern cousins.  But the Brits figured it out before we did.  Quibbling over a few decades is hardly useful.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of rebellion, disunion and military aggression against the United States of America.  The same can be said of many other flags.  Therefore, it should not be a part of any state flag...nor should it be flown anywhere but on private property.  With these exceptions...

*Museums devoted to Civil War or Southern history
*Military cemeteries and other places of interrment where Confederate soldiers are buried
*Civil War battlefields

This not only simplifies the issue by removing the emotions associated with slavery and racism, it makes the most sense.  If you are, like me, virulently disgusted over the idea of human trafficking -- past or present -- there are dozens of ways to express that disgust without having to posture and preen in such a way as to say to our Southern cousins, "You lost.  We won. Get over it." 

[JSojourner]

Rebellion against the United States of America.