Isn the Confederate flag a racist symbol?
No, it is not a racist symbol. It wasn’t in the past nor is it now. As a matter of fact the United States flag is tainted more with racism than the Confederate ever could be. It is true that some racists use the flag, but does that make it a symbol of hate? Why is it that when the U.S. flag is used by hate groups no one says a word? But the moment they display a Confederate flag everyone screams “see, look I told you that flag is a flag of hate”. I think it basically boils down to the fact that those who hate our Southern banners do so because they hate the South. To illustrate a point let’s look at the Cuban flag. Is it a flag of Communism or Freedom? Fidel Castro and his regime have been using it for over forty years, they wave and display it at all of their Communist rallies and parades, it flies over the prisons where freedom loving citizens are tortued and murdered, it’s the national flag of a Communist country, but is it a flag of oppression and slavery? You better not go to Miam
