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Tuesday, Jun 30, 2015 12:39 PM

African-American “flagger” says Confederate flag isn’t about race: “Slavery was a choice”

She quoted Patrick Henry and said if slaves weren’t given liberty, they always had another choice: “Give me death.”

By:  Scott Eric Kaufman

African-American “flagger” says Confederate flag isn’t about race: “Slavery was a choice”
Karen Cooper (“Battle Flag”)

A member of the group known as “The Virginia Flaggers” — who claim as their “weapon…the Confederate Battle Flag” and their “enemies…those who worship ignorance, historical revisionism and Political Correctness” — declared in a recent interview that despite being black herself, she believes the Confederate battle flag “represents freedom.”

In the interview — which is part of an ongoing documentary project about the meaning of the Confederate battle flag — Karen Cooper claimed that she was raised in the North as a member of the Nation of Islam, but “felt more welcome in the South” where, she said, “the races are more together.”

She said that she was introduced to the “flagger” movement by friends of hers in the Tea Party on Facebook. “Most of the people in the Tea Party had Confederate ancestors,” she added as if most people would be surprised to learn that.

All of us know that different things means different things to all of us.  The Civil War is a good example in that the North and South felt differently  felt about the way the country was being run at the time.  We are running into the same interference by this present government.  So this is a good example of the nature of people.

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