This post is about misunderstood symbols and people's ignorant interpretations of them. We will start with the Confederate Flag. The blood stained flag above was not the first flag but the third adopted in 1865. The first official national flag of the Confederacy, often called the Stars and Bars, flew from March 4, 1861, to May 1, 1863. It was designed by German/Prussian artist Nicola Marschall in Marion, Alabama, and resembled the flag of the Austrian Empire (later Austria-Hungary, now the Republic of Austria), with which Marschall would have been familiar.The "Stars and Bars" flag was adopted March 4, 1861, in the first temporary national capital of Montgomery, Alabama, and raised over the dome of that first Confederate capitol. Marschall also designed the Confederate army uniform. It caused confusion on the battlefield because it resembles the American flag. It was just a flag to distinguish sides in battle. That's all flags are. It was not designed for hatred. The Slave owning southerners did not hate African Americans they just owned them. The same way, Egyptians owned Jews, and Black Africans, or the English owned my Scotch, and Irish Ancestors. Native Americans were hated and almost anhilated. Slavery has existed all over the world and is evil but it didn't just happen in America. African Americans can thank their tribal kings who sold there people out to slave traders for perfumes,spices, furniture,and weaponry. The next pictures or hooded symbols that people think are clan members are not.They are actually Monks in Barcelona and Madrid,Spain during Holy week worshiping their God but automatically people assume KKK. The last most controversial symbol the Swastika. This is not a Nazi symbol even though it was adopted by them.The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious icon used in the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Southeast Asia, where it has been and remains a sacred symbol of spiritual principles in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. In the Western world, it was historically a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck,but in the 1930s, it became the main feature of Nazis. Don't be fooled by distractions in the media to separate and divide people. Learn and understand our history if all history and symbols people don't like are eratacated because it offends them. History will repeat itself. Germany has tried to wipe away all signs of Hitler and the Holocaust just like America is trying to wipe away the civil war and Confederate history. Historians know that the American Civil War was over much more than slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves just slaves in the South. Slaves in the North and Midwest states that allowed it. Did not free their slaves till after the war was over. Wake up people if we go hard enough we would find George Soros is probably paying the protesters to be out there. He has done it before conquer by division..Is his motto...
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