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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5823838" data-attributes="member: 9037">Biased in the fact that he often sees racism when in fact things are not racist. I think he lets his emotions color things. Again it seems to be that you really didn't learn your American history all you can see is slavery is bad so the south fighting to be allowed to self determine their fate is also bad. It is a very simplistic way of looking at history. Do you understand that just freeing the slaves would have hurt the southern economy very badly and that a lot of the people calling for the end of it were not doing it out of the nobility of their hearts but because they wanted a economic advantage. As Oryan pointed out most of the men who fought for the north were not doing it to free slaves but to keep the US together.All lot of Southerners who fought for the south did not own slaves my great grandfather and his family fought for what they viewed as their homeland if the southern economy was destroyed so would his family and their business. In his journal he talks about listening to his father and his father's friends talking late into the night about what would happen if the slaves were freed.  How if the wealthy plantations folded then so would all the other businesses. There are a lot of symbols that people react badly to I am Wiccan and so many Christians view the pentagram as a sign of evil and of Satan but that is not what it represented to me.The burning cross is a huge symbol of hate but a cross is also a symbol for millions of Christians as a sign of Gods love. I personally find the black panther fist symbol to be one of racism. A lot of the panthers preached hate and violence against whites. But I don't think every black person who wears it or displays it is racist.Like I said to a lot of Southerners especially in the 60s and 70s the flag had nothing  to do with racism but represented rebellion against Washington and the Vietnam War. There was a reason the Dukes of Hazzard car had the flag painted on top because they were good ole boys doing the best they can against the man. Racism was never ever part of that show.</blockquote>

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