The secret history of the Confederate Flag

Brut America

What we know as the Confederate flag was actually never a flag of the Confederacy. Here's the history of a symbol that many are fighting to ban across the nation.

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00:00Every hate group in America uses this flag as a symbol.

00:30Every hate group in America uses this flag as a symbol.

01:00Never to be forgotten in Dixie are the soldiers of the Confederacy, the men who in 1861 took

01:11up their arms to fight for a cause that was to be lost.

01:30They want to throw white children and colored children into the belting part of integration,

01:37throughout of which will come a conglomerated, belligerent, mongrel class of people.

02:07To suggest, as a matter of revisionist history, that this flag is not about slavery flies

02:23in the face of history, because I tell you, this is something that has no place in our

02:29modern times. It has no place in this body. It has no place in the Senate. It has no place

02:35in our society.

03:05That flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.

03:35Very strong views on the Confederate flag.

04:05With me, it's freedom of speech. Very simple.

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