From a legal viewpoint, then, what can we say of the status of the flag that the Harvard coed chose to fly: that it is mere emblem? Personal room decoration? Artistic statement? Historic relic? We make too light of the matter if we subscribe to any of these simplifications and if we take only the short-term view. That flag must be seen in its proper context:
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When are these role-playing Confederate soldiers going to admit they were and are morally wrong to defend slavery?
When is the South going to apologize to our nation on the fundamental issue of Slavery underlying the Civil War?
When are we going to stop indulging these conjectural “what if’s” that allow Southern sympathizers to fantasize how the South might have won the Civil War–and remind the world that chattel slavery was an indefensible, brutal, and immoral labor regime of the most violent, exploitative, and oppressive nightmare imaginable?
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