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Old 09-16-2015, 11:21 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by BlueK View Post
I find it amusing that whatever confederate flag apologists remain like to complain about how racists have hijacked their beloved symbol. The problem is that the people who originally created and used the flag were racists who fought a war over the right to enslave people. It's the white supremacist nutjobs who are exactly right about what that flag originally stood for.
Not only that the flag came back into prominence during the civil rights movement.
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