[Tom-L24151]

The Confederate Stars and Bars distresses lots of black Americans – and plenty of others, too. We don’t see it as a symbol of generalized rebellion, nor even as a token of a particular area.

For us, the rebel insignia stands for one side in the battle over whether one person should be able to own another human being. It stands for those who believe that God made at least one group of people inherently and always lower in quality than another group. And it stands for the belief that such people have no more humanity than any other piece of property – like my desk or the chair on which I am now sitting.

Perhaps we are too grounded in history to see the insignia as standing for a generalized rebellion or general statement of class consciousness. We remember that in the 1960s and 1970s people marched under this banner to oppose civil rights for blacks, Jews and lots of other people, too. For us, the flag reminds us of a much worse time – a time that we don’t want to return to.

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