Black South Carolina College Student Embraces & Defends Confederate Flag

LOL To be honest, the whole North/South thing is kinda bullshyt, since some of the abolitionist policies of Union states didn’t offer slaves many rights; many weren’t released until they were too old to work – which of course ended up with them rotting on the streets without a job, home, or people to care for them. Jupiter Hammon, father of black american literature, chose to remain a slave for this very reason all his life. 

Philosophically, I find his position interesting. While it naturally requires some revisionism- the removal of the pangs of slavery from the psyche- in order to sell its message, I can’t say that it’s any different than what brothers who use the N-word as a term of endearment do. If the word itself is a symbol packed with a negative, visceral history and meaning that can be altered over time as societal consciousness changes, I really can’t say it’s impossible for the Confederate flag, also a symbol packed with negative connotations and history, to evolve a new meaning for blacks contemporarily. Of course, I feel the danger here comes from the meaning the young brother has attempted to “reestablish” being something that evolved from a pre-existing Southern nostalgic fantasy that ultimately bears no contemporary social relevance. Instead of actively challenging previous stigmas, he chooses to remain subservient to the past, and in essence, only enables them by accepting this narrative.

Herman Cain illegitimate son, maybe??  That’s the only explanation I could think of this young man doing something like that.  However, I sorta like the Ketchup and flying elephant theory better. Smh!

Are you always this stuck in the past? I mean, now I’ve seen everything. Just because a black person decides to embrace a confederate flag, you decide to go apeshit. How narrowminded can one person possible get.

fact, there were still slaves in the white house AFTER the civil war. here’s another fun fact, the single person that owned the most slaves in the south was, you ready for this, a black man! Lincoln only ended slavery in the south, NOT the north, and was only done to weaken the southern economy, not because he wanted to. check your history and get over it. it’s only an issue because you want it to be an issue. race-baiters are making a living by perpetuating this very idea that serve to do nothing but create tension and and further widen the gap, thus ensuring their own employment. every one else has moved on. just like Byron has.