The Confederate Flag is in the news and a lot of people are giving their two cents. Former WWE Champion and current WWE announcer JBL weighed in with his thoughts on the Confederate Flag via his Facebook page.
Gonna be on my friend Jerry Doyle’s show tonight talking about Confederate Flag issue. Amazing to me that the flag was born out of biggest treasonous event in our country’s history and the core problem was owning another race of human beings as slaves-yet, some want to claim that these four years (1861-1865), that a flag that was never even adopted as the Confederacy Flag is ‘their heritage’.
A lot of soldiers died for this flag-so did a lot of soldiers die for the Nazi flag, sorry to say those lives were wasted in both cases.
The flag came into prominence because of the Klan and white supremacists after the war-some heritage. I think if a person wants to put out s symbol of hate and discrimination and hang it on their private property-they have every right to do so, even though I hate it. But I think government should not be allowed to display it publicly except a museum of history-and only in a case inside.
I hope we can move on from something as disgraceful as this flag.
JBL gave an intelligent and common sense explanation on why this flag has absolutely no place in our society especially masquerading as some sort of symbol for southern heritage. How can people be so blind to what the true meaning of that flag is? Most aren’t blind and just shade their true feelings by pretending it has nothing to do with slavery but that is what it symbolizes and how people see it. We need more people like JBL talking like this about this stuff. One day we will look back and wonder what took so long?