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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5823854" data-attributes="member: 9037">Except the Nazi movement has not gone away and evidence shows it is growing in strength among young Germans and Austrians.I think it is much safer to have things out in the open and not kept in secret.I lived near the Seminole Indian Reservation when I was a teen and the kids went to my high school and a lot of them refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and viewed the flag as a symbol of oppression. The American Indian Movement of the 60s and 70s viewed the flag and the way that history was being taught as discrimination against the Native Americans, I remember reading a speech one of the founders of AIM made about how flying the American flag was condoning the slaughter and mistreatment of the Native people. Talk to the Native Americans who live on the Reservations of what it was like and how they were treated by white townsfolk during the 50s and 60s in this country it just has not gotten the same coverage as what the Civil Right movement did. A lot of white owned business refused to allow them to shop or eat at their restaurants. I know Jews, Pagans and Muslims who view the cross a symbol of hate and discrimination look at the horrible Westboro Church and what they have done with the symbol. I also feel that instead of giving into hate take back the symbols that have been recruited for symbols of hate. The swastika was not a symbol that Nazis made they stole it originally it was an ancient Sanskrit symbol.  It depends on the word and what it means I am stubborn and I don't give into what I see as stupid political correctness. And if someone wants to judge me as racist based on my use of a word well my attitude is basically screw them. Just like my attitude with people who have judged me as racist because I own an authentic battle flag. I have been told I should destroy what is a piece of history along with the Confederate money I own and my great grandfather's cap. Those items are a part of my family history and they are apart of American history. I refuse to destroy them because some idiotic bigots took the symbol and used it to terrorize blacks, Jews and Catholics.  The Civil War is part of our history and making it illegal to own a Confederate flag or not allow it to be flown over a Civil War graveyard or at a museum about the Civil War is just plain out right ignorance.  We have come so far since those days. A Black man is in the White House we have black congressman and Governors. Is racism dead no it is not  but we have come a long way since the 1960s. I am certainly not going to judge anyone who has Confederate flag or any Confederate memorabilia as being racist.</blockquote>

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