Black mom is horrified with the confederate flag T-shirts

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Naturally, the winners of history get to decide what their legacy is.

It is why the Allies weren't put before war crimes tribunal for firebombing Japan.

The problem for the Confederacy is that it has no saving grace. If you take out politics entirely and speak only for the honor, bravery etc etc, the problem is that it drains such endeavors of purpose. Bravery for what? Honor in the pursuit of what? The Confederacy was formed by seven states who demanded as their Constitutional Right the ability to impose slavery on the rest of the nation lest the slave population grow so large that it cannot be controlled and the salves rise up, burn the plantations and put owner's heads on pikes. People studied their classics back then and they knew of The Servile Revolts in Rome. People don't draw this conclusion as the governing motivation for the South, and therefore it muddles the message somewhat and reduces it to "South wants to keep Slaves, North says no, south secedes". When it should be "South wants to force slavery on the rest of the country, North says no, South rebels"

Four states joined the Confederacy only after the Union denied the first seven "their right to secede" in the eyes of the last four states. I might be willing to concede that VA, NC, TN and AR seceded over state's rights more so than slavery, but slavery is still the indirect cause even for them since the first seven seceded to protect slavery and they in turn seceded to protect the first seven's right to secede.