Recently (and inexplicably) the Confederate (or rebel) flag has become the latest issue in the recent wave of the media trying to convince people that racism is a bigger problem than it is.
president obama (no i am not going to capitalize any part of that - i'm still hoping it is all a terrible, terrrible dream) recently said that the flag was a symbol of the civil war that was all about slavery.
Wrong. Slavery was not the cause of the "civil war". i know that is what US teachers have been saying for decades, but that doesn't make it true. Slavery was what the north used to "morally justify" and unjustifiable war (which actually more closely paralleled the revolutionary war). The slavery angle was tied on to the war to obscure the South's valid concerns about governance (and their declining lack of a voice on their own affairs). That and the North's egotism and hyprocrisy.
