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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 1703620" data-attributes="member: 48469">Ken Burns: Confederate flag isn&#039;t about heritage. It&#039;s about resistance to civil rights.<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8846879/ken-burns-civil-war" target="_blank">http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8846879/ken-burns-civil-war</a>&quot;I think what happens is that we build up over time the sense of an excuse about why it came,&quot; Burns said. &quot;If you read … South Carolina&#039;s articles of secession in November — after [Abraham] Lincoln&#039;s election of 1860 — they don&#039;t mention states&#039; rights, they don&#039;t mention nullification. They mention slavery over and over again.&quot;He later added, &quot;Those [Confederate] flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage. This is about resistance to civil rights.&quot;With these two points, Burns is demonstrating how the Confederate battle flag has always been a symbol against efforts by black Americans to gain equal rights. When South Carolina became the first state to secede after Lincoln&#039;s election, it <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832341/confederate-flag-is-racist" target="_blank">explicitly singled out</a> attempts to abolish slavery and grant rights to black Americans as &quot;hostile to the South&quot; and &quot;destructive of its beliefs and safety.&quot; And as <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8818093/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston-shooting" target="_blank">Vox&#039;s Libby Nelson explained</a>, Southerners used the flag to intimidate civil rights advocates and defend segregation. So while some Southerners might not see the Confederate flag as a racist symbol, the truth is the flag&#039;s history is mired in racism.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 1703620, member: 48469"] [B]Ken Burns: Confederate flag isn't about heritage. It's about resistance to civil rights. [/B] [URL]http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8846879/ken-burns-civil-war[/URL] [B][/B] "I think what happens is that we build up over time the sense of an excuse about why it came," Burns said. [U]"If you read … South Carolina's articles of secession in November — after [Abraham] Lincoln's election of 1860 — they don't mention states' rights, they don't mention nullification. They mention slavery over and over again."[/U] He later added, [U]"Those [Confederate] flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage. This is about resistance to civil rights."[/U] With these two points, Burns is demonstrating how the Confederate battle flag has always been a symbol against efforts by black Americans to gain equal rights. When South Carolina became the first state to secede after Lincoln's election, it [URL='http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832341/confederate-flag-is-racist']explicitly singled out[/URL] attempts to abolish slavery and grant rights to black Americans as "hostile to the South" and "destructive of its beliefs and safety." And as [URL='http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8818093/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston-shooting']Vox's Libby Nelson explained[/URL], Southerners used the flag to intimidate civil rights advocates and defend segregation. So while some Southerners might not see the Confederate flag as a racist symbol, the truth is the flag's history is mired in racism. [/QUOTE]

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