Publisher's Synopsis
Introduction History is the past and we should always remember and preserve it. You cannot erase history, if you do. It can repeat itself. I say let most everything stay put. We all have the Right to remember our history, including Southern Whites. Slavery is a part of mankind history. We know that and that's nothing to be ashamed of. Read the Bible about Slavery. Should the Bible be destroyed because it condoned Slavery? Of course not, that was the way times were in the past. You have a choice whether to read the Bible or not. However, flying the South Battle Flag should not be displayed on public property because it is offensive to African Americans. Blacks were Slaves in America for over 400 years. They don't want to be reminded daily by looking at a Battle Flag of the South After imagery emerged over Television seeing confessed killer Dylann Roof embracing the Flag, local activists and some elected officials are pressing for its removal from the South Carolina Capitol grounds. And with National attention focused on the State's fraught -- and often racially-tinged -- Politics, they think they might finally win. Many Republicans, including Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, have avoided taking a position on the Flag, though Jeb Bush highlighted his role in removing the Flag from Florida's Capitol in 2001. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton forcefully called on Americans to discuss Racial divisions but hasn't weighed in specifically on whether South Carolina should remove the Flag from the Capitol complex. The display of Flags used by and associated with the Confederate States of America (1861-1865) has continued, with a long interruption, into the present day, with the "Southern Cross" used in the Battle Flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia gaining the most popular recognition as a modern symbol of the Confederacy, and by extension, of the White component of the Southern United States in general. Such displays have been made for a variety of reasons, with Southern Culture, States' Rights, and historical commemoration among the stated reasons for particular uses. Displaying the Flag has long been controversial in the United States, due to the Flag's historical associations with: Treason, Racism, Slavery, Segregation and White supremacy. This Country must come together and co-exist and live together in peace or be destroyed from within and perish as fools. We as a Nation must unite and become united because, we are a Multiracial Society. White supremacy is a thing of the past and must be forgotten. Therlee Gipson