Supporters
of the Confederate flag like to say it’s about heritage not racism. Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes the beliefs of state
after state. Here is what Texas heritage
sounds like:
...in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....
Read
his entire article to understand the true heritage of the Confederate flag. I can see why it would be difficult to face
such a heritage, but it’s time.
The title to this article is also from Ta-Nehisi Coates here..
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