Yes, you read that correctly.
A black confederate flag supporter has come forward with her opinion on slavery, and what she has to say is something that will definitely get a lot of people heated.
Here are the details via NY Daily News:
Karen Cooper explained why she joined the Virginia Flaggers, a group that defends the rebel flag against those who “worship ignorance, historical revisionism and political correctness.”
“I actually think that it represents freedom,” she said in an interview for “Battle Flag,” a documentary project about the flag. “It represents a people who stood up to tyranny.”
“I’m not advocating slavery or think that it was right. It wasn’t and none of my friends think it was. It was just something that happened. It didn’t just happen in the South — it happened worldwide.”
Besides, “slavery was a choice,” she added, because slaves had a choice to die.
“And I say that because of what Patrick Henry said: ‘Give me liberty, or give me death.’ If we went back to that kind of slavery — no I couldn’t do it. Give me death,” she explained.
If anything, slavery is still alive today, she claimed.
“I know what people think about when they see the battle flag: the KKK, racism, bringing slavery back. So I knew it would be something for people to see a black woman with the battle flag,” she said.
“How can it be racist if I’m out there with them?” she added.
Hearing that slavery was a choice from this woman has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard. The confederate flag represents the part of the country that wanted to keep slavery. They wanted to keep African-Americans as property. They wanted power and control over black women, men, and children. I don’t see how anyone could say that this flag represents anything positive when it carries so much hatred behind it. Cooper also said that slaves had a choice between being a slave and dying. If she were alive back when my ancestors were beaten, hung, ripped apart from their families, raped, and killed, I’m sure she wouldn’t be making those ignorant statements she made in this interview.