I would just like to paraphrase some of my abolitionist heroes.

I will show you that slavery is wrong.

I will show you that slavery is wrong by the laws of man.

I will show you slavery is wrong by the Laws Of GOD.

And if that don't work,

I will show you slavery is wrong with my fists,my knives, and my guns.

Because, whether we like it or not they have the right to do that. Hell, Skin heads, KKK, etc all have the right to form parades etc. Just because we don't like what they do doesnt make it illegal.

Enderra,

I've read some of your other posts, you are by no means an ignorant person. I've also read some of your poems and creative writings, which lead me to believe that you are a person of great depth.

This is by no means anything to "attack" you or your beliefs or your COLOR by any shape form or fashion, but the person who wrote the other posts, doesn't seem like the same person here.

What did you hope to accomplish by posting this? Was it to enlightened those you feel were ignorant of what your ancestors dealt with or that the confederate flag was perceived as racist to all black people? If so, IMO, you will NEVER achieve any enlightenment by becoming the very thing you cry out so loudly against...and that's a racist. I don't consider myself one, but some of your comments, I have PERCEIVED as being very racist!

I've never done it, but my brother traced my ancestors and they came here as INDENTURED servants...that's nothing but a fancy name for slavery. They had to work until they had "paid" for their trip here and how was it decided how much work they had to do that would "pay" for their trip to this land?

Do you want the confederate flag wiped out totally because some people perceive it as racist? It won't happen...some people don't perceive it that way and those who do are usually narrow minded people who wouldn't change their beliefs no matter how many facts were put in front of them.

Do you want an apology from every white person? I won't apologize for something I didn't do, had no control over, and would not have participated in, had I been there and given a choice.

Some of your comments, I PERCEIVED as blanket comments. Not all white people are racist, not all confederate flag wavers believe it to stand as a semblence of slavery, not all southerners are racist.

I don't like cliches, but I'll use this one. You'll catch more flies with honey then you ever will with vinegar and some of your remarks, I, and I'm speaking for only myself, perceive them as being full of vinegar.

Your all wrong. Indentured servitutde was nothing like slavery. How would you like to be raped whenever you owner felt like it,and watch your children be sold and molested and murdered and raped for hundreds of years? Over and over and over again? You CANT understand how that feels. You cant understand what that is to tell your children down thru the generations and what that means.

First of all, I prefaced anything I thought was being said, as "I preceived" such, which meant that how I was taking what the OP was saying could be perceived in another manner and I never stated anywhere that it was right or wrong and no where did I say that the things that happened to her ancestors didn't happen!

I asked questions, period. None of which was answered and that again is the OP's right not to do so.

I stated in a previous post here that if she..or anyone else for that matter BELIEVED, for whatever reason, that the flag was a racist flag, then for that person, it was.

As far as the some of the other statements in my post, and again, it all comes down to how it's PERCEIVED...what I was trying to say was that if ANYONE wants to try to make a change, it doesn't normally happen by becoming the very thing that someone wants to change.

I have not, or I never intended, for any of my statements to imply that anything the OP felt was right or wrong, simply that perhaps there was a better way of trying to achieve certain results.

I suppose I'm just a little biased against the Confederate flag considering the local KKK threatened to kill me 5 years ago because I fired some of them for running their hateful mouths on the job. My only regret is I wish I could fire them again.

Hell ya. People need to respect others. Regardless of race or gender, etc. We are all of the human race after all.

I know what you mean, it's easy to develope biased views against people that mean you bodily harm. After the war i had trouble trusting anyone muslim. Always sat with my back towards the wall, got nervous in crowds, but when i saw somalis running around in their get up, i was REALLY on my guard. Hell even sitting next to them in class i always made sure i kept one eye on them, and i was READY to strike in defense at the first sign of a threat. Silly thing is i fought against IRAQI insurgents not Somali. What's sadder than that is quite often muslims are more forgiving and peaceful than most people. It took me a while to get over it all...

The thing is profiling and catagorizing like that is a survival instinct. The confederate flag should never stand for slavery. They are disgracing the flag by using it as such. The flag stands for a group of people fighting against federal control. Hell, if the states still had most of the power, like originally intended, most of the corruption probably wouldn't exist. But who knows.

All i know is those confederates fought hard. Nobody fights that hard to keep their slaves.

Hell ya. People need to respect others. Regardless of race or gender, etc. We are all of the human race after all.

I know what you mean, it's easy to develope biased views against people that mean you bodily harm. After the war i had trouble trusting anyone muslim. Always sat with my back towards the wall, got nervous in crowds, but when i saw somalis running around in their get up, i was REALLY on my guard. Hell even sitting next to them in class i always made sure i kept one eye on them, and i was READY to strike in defense at the first sign of a threat. Silly thing is i fought against IRAQI insurgents not Somali. What's sadder than that is quite often muslims are more forgiving and peaceful than most people. It took me a while to get over it all...

The thing is profiling and catagorizing like that is a survival instinct. The confederate flag should never stand for slavery. They are disgracing the flag by using it as such. The flag stands for a group of people fighting against federal control. Hell, if the states still had most of the power, like originally intended, most of the corruption probably wouldn't exist. But who knows.

All i know is those confederates fought hard. Nobody fights that hard to keep their slaves.

Yes, I would be the first to fly a peace, united human race flag, were one ever to exist.

What I am saying is why is it ok for jewish people to be offended by the use of the swastika and for everyone to get why the people who use it are racist? But oh no the confederate flag should be respected.