re: Insanity continues: Confederate National Flags removed at Ft Sumter Monument

1- I understand the slippery slope argument, and it does make me uneasy as well. However, I do think we can show solidarity to our minority groups by putting hateful and discriminatory symbols away and in a museum. Our biggest sin as a country was our racial discrimination , considering we are a heterogenous free democratic country , and holding on to hateful times does nothing for those that want to keep it up but gave them a sense of superiority over the offended. Because they lose nothing from it being put in a museum. I'm all for history, and I don't think it can or should be erased, but as we grow and evolve, we come to know that not every past saint should really be revered.

2- slavery in Africa wasn't based on racial discrimination, nor was a it a free democratic society, and it was in freaking another country, so it has no barring on the legitimacy of the American slavery institute. I find that argument to nothing but a deflector. The Africans that sold their slaves to the Europeans in no way dictated the subsequent prolonged oppression of their slaves. It's an irrelevant argument.

Also, Africans didn't ship other Afrixans all around the world and subject them to continued racial discrimination under a racial caste system.

Those 1000s of black on black crimes are address all the time. I see them in the service work I do, and amongst friends and family. It just doesn't get play In the media. Civic groups like 100 black men, Black frats and soro, jack and Jill do so much work in the community to combat these things the naysayers say we don't address.