It's pretty simple: nobody gets a free pass to try to "reclaim" a symbol that has baggage without carrying the baggage. The Confederate battle flag says: 1. I agree with the people who started their own country just to continue owning other people; 2. I agree with the constitution of that rebel country, which prevented its own states from abolishing slavery; 3. I believe that the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution were just Northern "meddling"; 4. I was happy when the state governments reclaimed their governments from those trying to secure those rights for the newly-liberated people; 5. I agree with those who resisted the racial integration of the southern states in the '50s and '60s; 6. I think all this talk of racism is overblown, even though nothing would have changed, had the whole nation not seen what was happening on their TVs at night. Is it worth it, just to say you like Lynrd Skynyrd? I believe you, when you sa
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