FLAG: Bet you didn't know
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 10 years, 6 months AGO
The Confederate flag is similar to the Betsy Ross flag. It features a blue field with 13 stars formed in a circular ring, just like Betsy Ross’. However it only has three broad red and white stripes. No one would probably recognize it. Nobody flies the Confederate flag.
The other flag, commonly seen, and in such great contention these days, is actually the Battle Colors of the Army of Northern Virginia. Robert E. Lee, General of the Army of Northern Virginia said, “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”
“So far [I am] from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished … I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained [the abolition of slavery].” — Robert E Lee, 1856
The Battle Colors of the Army of Northern Virginia is neither the Confederate flag nor a Slavery flag.
Furthermore, not all the states joined in arms against the federal government had slaves nor was slavery legal in all states joined in the Southern Confederacy.
To call it the slavery flag is to marginalize the entire historical framework whereupon these events took place into its most simplistic moronic state. The revolting and disgusting foundation for slavery is based upon two world views, both of which I hate.
1) The Arab muslim slave traders who bought people for slaves, purchased from their African Tribal chieftains believe that Allah is their master and all mankind are his slaves. To believe Allah is their father is blasphemy. God is not their father, he is their slave master. This belief exists today. So does slavery in the modern day Muslim world.
2) The belief in Darwinian evolution (like the highly educated Nazis believed), there were “lower races” that “were less evolved.” They were a sub-species; even sub-human and thereby justified enslavement. This I hate.
Both these views I find thoroughly disgusting. I believe we are all Children of God, created in the image of God.
KEITH D. BOE
Coeur d’Alene