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CMV: Support for the Confederate flag, and monuments honoring Confederate heroes is unamerican

There is a lot of back and forth about the racism aspect of honoring the Confederate history. I personally do think there is a racist component but there's another aspect I think is overlooked.

How can you have pride for and fight for symbols that sought to separate from the US and still claim to be a proud American?? It represents an organization and people that fought and killed their fellow Americans TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES! You can be proud of your Confederate heritage or you can be a proud American, to claim both is hypocrisy.

To add a different perspective think of something in your personal life that you regret or are embarrassed about. Is that something you constantly flaunt or celebrate? Brag about?

History should be remembered and learned from but the more shameful parts should not be celebrated. Memorials of tragic events are made and honored without being revered. No one celebrates the memorials for 9/11 or the holocaust but they are there as sobering reminders so that we may never forget and learn from them.
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How can you have pride for and fight for symbols that sought to separate from the US and still claim to be a proud American?

Because being American is being a part of a culture, not a nation. We are a people first and a nation second.