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Confederate flag proud symbol of US South: Trump

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
July 20, 2020
Confederate flag proud symbol of US South: Trump

Confederate flag proud symbol of US South: Trump

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump declined to say the Confederate flag was an offensive hate symbol and said it is a source of pride for people who love the South.
The president was asked during an interview if the flag, a symbol of US slavery and white supremacy for many Americans, was offensive. “It depends on who you’re talking about, when you’re talking about,” Trump responded.
“When people proudly had their Confederate flags they’re not talking about racism. They love their flag, it represents the South. They like the South … I say it’s freedom of many things, but it’s freedom of speech.”
Trump has in the past appeared sympathetic to the flag and symbols of the Confederacy of the 1861-65 Civil War.
In 2017, he criticised the removal of monuments to the Confederacy and said there were “very fine people on both sides” of a deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Earlier this month, he criticized NASCAR’s ban of the Confederate flag from its events. Trump has promised to veto the annual National Defense Authorization Act over an amendment to remove the names of Confederate generals from military bases within a year.
“We won World Wars out of these, out of these military bases, no I’m not gonna go changing. I’m not gonna go changing,” Trump said in the interview, which was taped on Friday.
He drew a parallel to the Black Lives Matter movement that was born out of police brutality targeting Black Americans. “I’m not offended either by Black Lives Matter. That’s freedom of speech,” Trump said.
Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell, who last month endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in the November election, said the Confederate flag represents something that was never the United States of America.
“It was the Confederate States of America. They were not part of us and this is not the time to keep demonstrating who they were and what they were back then,” said Powell, who is Black. “This is time to move on. Let’s get going. We have one flag and only one flag only.”
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