On the date of December 6, 1863, slavery ended and that was also the day the 13th amendment was ratified into the Constitution. African Americans don’t see the flag as a symbol for anything except for racism. The Kul Klux Klan actually used this flag as a symbol for racism, and not every white American uses the flag for that purpose. Also the flag was not the original flag for the Confederacy. Not all Africans see the flag as a bad symbol, but most do and that is all because of slavery. Slavery happened because of the fact that the white Americans didn’t see all men are created equal. They believed that since their skin was a different color; that the whites were better and the colored folk had to work for them. Every day in this century
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Some use the flag for a way of life and they don’t mean for people to hate them because of that. They believe that they’re “Red Necks”, every day in life, you will never know what you will see, but you can almost guarantee that you’ll see at least one white American using the flag on either a shirt, bandana, a picture on their truck, or just a flag on their motorcycle. Africans can hate the flag all they want, but they will never get rid of the flag completely. “NONE of the flags of the Confederacy or Southern Nation ever flew over a slave ship. Nor did the South own or operate any slave’s ships. The English, the Dutch and the Portuguese brought slaves to this country, not the Southern Nation. BUT, even more monumental, it is also very important to know and understand that Federal, Yankee, Union ships brought slaves to America! These ships were from the New England states, and their hypocrisy is atrocious. These Federals were ones that ended up crying the loudest about slavery. But without their ships, many of the slaves would have never arrived here. They made countless fortunes on the delivery of slaves as well as the products made from raw materials such as cotton and tobacco in the South. This is the problem with Yankee history. History is overwhelmingly portrayed incorrectly by most of the Federal & Yankee books and media.” (Service, …show more content…
“Like its Union sibling, it had a dark blue field in the upper left corner -- or the canton -- and only three stripes, two red and one white. It had seven stars to represent the breakaway states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. And the white stars formed a circle, much like the original Betsy Ross American flag” (Brumfield, 2015). There are so many different versions of the Confederate flag, nobody really knows that the real flag looked like. Africans I believe just look for a red, white, and blue flag. Sometimes I think that if they see the United States flag, they think it’s slavery. Some Africans just need to jump a head about 200 years and let the past go. It wasn’t them in the past and it wasn’t us either. Life now is nothing like it used to be. White American try to get along with Africans because in order for there to be peace, there has to be no
Some use the flag for a way of life and they don’t mean for people to hate them because of that. They believe that they’re “Red Necks”, every day in life, you will never know what you will see, but you can almost guarantee that you’ll see at least one white American using the flag on either a shirt, bandana, a picture on their truck, or just a flag on their motorcycle. Africans can hate the flag all they want, but they will never get rid of the flag completely. “NONE of the flags of the Confederacy or Southern Nation ever flew over a slave ship. Nor did the South own or operate any slave’s ships. The English, the Dutch and the Portuguese brought slaves to this country, not the Southern Nation. BUT, even more monumental, it is also very important to know and understand that Federal, Yankee, Union ships brought slaves to America! These ships were from the New England states, and their hypocrisy is atrocious. These Federals were ones that ended up crying the loudest about slavery. But without their ships, many of the slaves would have never arrived here. They made countless fortunes on the delivery of slaves as well as the products made from raw materials such as cotton and tobacco in the South. This is the problem with Yankee history. History is overwhelmingly portrayed incorrectly by most of the Federal & Yankee books and media.” (Service, …show more content…
“Like its Union sibling, it had a dark blue field in the upper left corner -- or the canton -- and only three stripes, two red and one white. It had seven stars to represent the breakaway states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. And the white stars formed a circle, much like the original Betsy Ross American flag” (Brumfield, 2015). There are so many different versions of the Confederate flag, nobody really knows that the real flag looked like. Africans I believe just look for a red, white, and blue flag. Sometimes I think that if they see the United States flag, they think it’s slavery. Some Africans just need to jump a head about 200 years and let the past go. It wasn’t them in the past and it wasn’t us either. Life now is nothing like it used to be. White American try to get along with Africans because in order for there to be peace, there has to be no