What is it about the Confederate flag that makes African Americans feel threatened?
Simply put it is a combination of factors. First is the reality that the Confederacy lost the American War of the Eighteen Sixties. Due to that there are those who find it easy to deride the confederacy through this singular symbol. Secondly, it is a misunderstanding of what the flag means and which flag is being discussed. There is the National flag (actually three different variations) as well as State Flags and Battle Flags. Usually it is the Battle flag which is displayed and this is also the one which those who object select. This selection is an error in that this flag represented the fighting individual (including by the way 50,000 colored confederate troops) and not the policies of the Confederacy. Political correctness is another area in which individuals use these flags for motivations which have nothing to do with what occurred during the war. That is, the applying of concepts of these times to those of a very different time and circumstance. This is neither reasonable nor h
