Thread:High Prince Imrahil/@comment-26210095-20160718114659/@comment-26295802-20160718194903

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

High Prince Imrahil wrote: But that's my point. An organization, a cause, is made of the people that comprise it. And the people that comprised The Confederacy were a mixed bag. Were some of them racists who were fighting for slavery? Of course. Were some of them noble people fighting for their homes and families? Yes. I fully admit that that flag has had it's fair share of racism over the years. But my point is that, like the nation it stands for, it's a mixed bag. It stands for racism to some, but to others, it stands for freedom and independence from tyranny. My point is not to say that The South was a bunch of saints that believed in racial equality and got a bad rep, my point is to say that they were a mixed bag, and by extension, so was The Confederacy. Well, it was a mixed bag in terms of the people. Those who held power over it, however, the rich landowners, weren't. But the flag doesn't represent "the people in power over it". It represents the nation itself, and the people that comprise that nation.