Confederacy Ideas Study
There is a difference between Battle Flag and the simple confederate flag, often confused.
I learned from analyzing what leaders of the Confederacy said about reasons for seceding the United States was the Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery, to keep their true principle of what they thought was the truth
For the battle flag of the Confederacy, I used to think of it standing in general as just something people united under sharing similar ideals, though having grown up in Arizona, white supremacy or southern pride wasn't present in my life until later... I now realize it, in fact, stands for the men who lost their lives fighting for a cause, later branching off into much different supposed ideals. I think it is more than possible to separate the battle flag from the stated goals of others using a similar or same version of the flag design as they stood for less overall ideals and more personal ones of the time that distracted the flag's true cause.
My perspective in viewing the Confederate battle flag now stands as more like a banner used to signify humans fighting and defending their goals. men died for this cause and it deserves to be remembered as something to honor them rather than something more racial such as 'White Supremacy' or "Segregation' and such. My views have since changed from the beginning of the study of the flag from thinking of it as a general sense of some flag that was like the United States flag to be one that has a more specialized purpose, though seems to have had a long line of abuse and misconception.
Thank you for being willing to think seriously about these important issues.
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