Lately, I've been seeing a lot of confrontation over the confederate flag. A lot of people are speaking out lately about it's history with racism (...and rightfully so) making really great points about how that flag represents slavery. I do agree that the confederate flag is disgusting and that people should trash it. However, that isn't far enough. We need to look at the stars and stripes and the genocide and manifest destiny it represents. How many massacres of indigenous men, womyn and children soak the folds of the stars and stripes? How much of the land anglo america stands on did they steal from indigenous folks and Mexicans? The descendants of those people, my people are continuing to have to fight today. White people came to this continent, the plague of 1492, now they proceed to tell people whose blood was here first that our people are immigrants. That is what the US flag represents. So burn a US flag, burn a confederate flag, burn a bible, destroy a cop shop, burn and/or desecrate any symbols of colonialism and of oppression that you can!
The north during the civil war was also just as fucked as the south. The northern industrialists who backed the north just wanted to consolidate their wealth and power. Even during the civil war, the union troops were behind the sand creek massacre where unarmed indigenous men, womyn and children were slaughtered by northern soldiers. Aslo during the civil war union troops hung 38 indigenous leaders in a mass execution known as the Dakota 38.
Right now the American flag is stained by Iraqi blood and the blood of Mexicans who have died trying to cross the border and the blood of people of color gunned down in the streets by law enforcement. It's the same devil now.
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