The Sons of Confederate Veterans have recently re-raised the Confederate Flag on I-75 in Tampa, Florida. To defend this action they made some of the usual claims about the flag like: "the flag is not racist" and "its part of our heritage." (All things that Senator Jim Webb would agree with.) My personal favorite came from Marion Lambert, who claimed the flag will be a part of a memorial honoring both whites and blacks. Lambert said that "a school kid come in here [to the memorial] black or white and he gonna say 'you mean to tell me that blacks had something to do with the Confederacy?' They had a lot to do with the Confederacy!" Yes, Mr. Lambert, blacks did have a lot to do with the Confederacy. The Southern states were so in love with their blacks that they seceded from the Union, formed the Confederacy, and fought a war just to protect their blacks...from being freed. So, Lambert is correct in saying that blacks had a lot to do with the Confederacy. The Sons of Confederate Veterans are disgusting bigots.
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