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The secret history of the Confederate Flag
Brut America
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3/25/2025
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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Every hate group in America uses this flag as a symbol.
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Every hate group in America uses this flag as a symbol.
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Never to be forgotten in Dixie are the soldiers of the Confederacy, the men who in 1861 took
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up their arms to fight for a cause that was to be lost.
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They want to throw white children and colored children into the belting part of integration,
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throughout of which will come a conglomerated, belligerent, mongrel class of people.
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To suggest, as a matter of revisionist history, that this flag is not about slavery flies
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in the face of history, because I tell you, this is something that has no place in our
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modern times. It has no place in this body. It has no place in the Senate. It has no place
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in our society.
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That flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.
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Very strong views on the Confederate flag.
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With me, it's freedom of speech. Very simple.
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