You were not alive for any of it yet you choose to pick up the mantle and drag it around with you.
I had to take care of a mother who drank herself into insanity. Everyone has shit they have had to deal with. What difference does that make?
Would you want to see a Taliban flag up in the city you fought to liberate? Where your people died? My brother cried when the Iraqi insurgents took back Tikrit (I think that was the town). He had friends die there. What if 50 years after ww2 vets visit Normandy and find the French biking around with Nazi flags yelling Vichy pride? What about 150 years later? So you think the French have monuments for the traitors who sold them out to the Nazis?
The Taliban weren't our brothers, fool. The Southerners were. It was hard for the entire country. The whole situation was and still is fucked up, but they're still Americans, misguided or not.
The Confederate flag doesn't serve anyone in power, because the Confederacy is in ruins. We're all American here. It's you, and even Bluntmassa right now, that's living in the 1860s. Both of you need to chill the hell out on that and respect your fellow man, even if you disagree with them.
Because the Union forbid the Confederacy from honoring their dead in cemetaries. The Union does not look at the Confederate dead as soldiers. And, yeah, actually it's worse in other countries, i.e. Shiite vs. Sunni in Iraq. Among other places.
Then do something about it and petition for his dismissal, or you are part of the problem. If the politician is corrupt, and not embodying American values that he's sworn to uphold, oust his ass.
No, so don't fucking contribute to division. Let it be, unless you have to defend yourself against a maniac or a group of them.
Blacks don't count?