# The confederate flag.  Symbol of southern heritage or Hate?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-confederate-flag-symbol-of-southern-heritage-or-hate/192863 "2007-10-06T15:43:19Z")
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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-confederate-flag-symbol-of-southern-heritage-or-hate/192863/7 "2007-10-06T20:05:30Z")

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> [@BENNY BENASSI Saturday July 21, 2007 Guvernment!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/benny-benassi-saturday-july-21-2007-guvernment/29332/57):
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> I came across this same question on a southern based board. I just wondered what you guys thought.
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> In this day and age is the confederate flag flown by someone that is proud of their southern heritage or as a symbol of hate.

how can you have one without the other? The heritage of the south is buying slaves and using them to tend their crops. It’s what their entire economy was based on. So much so that they resorted to seceding from the union and taking up arms against the United States to keep their slaves. Slaves that were beaten, tortured, and killed at will. Thinking upon that time with a sense of nostalgia would be akin to people flying swastikas in German to commemorate that time in their history. It disgusts me.

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