Reply #301: What an amazing topic.

[Old Mouse]

I think this is indicative of how far understanding between the races has to go.

Anyone who can defend the purposeful and proud display of the symbol of an economic system based on the dehumanization of an entire ethnic group is bigoted.

The problem is not their desire to identify with the symbol or the better ideals of the era it represents, the problem is the inability on the part of the person to emphasize with the 400 years of deliberate enslavement, suffering, torture, murder, rape, forced breeding, infanticide, destruction and looting of real and personal property, destruction of families, homes, and communities,and tribal genocide that flag means to others.

The unwillingness to subvert the desire to publicly revere a symbol despite the extreme emotional horror it brings to an entire race of people, right here and right now, not one hundred years ago, shows a self-centered lack of decency that can only be called racism.