The Confederate Flag is a Symbol of Racism

To begin I would like to address my opponents lake of citation or credibility in their supposed source. Valued audience take note that con refuses and even questions how I connect slavery with racism when it seems easy to explain on a level of basic moral humanity that enslaving one because of being above them in skin color is the definition of racism. My opponent tries to justify that slavery was not a problem of the civil war by stating the lack of the issue of slavery mentions in letters and diaries of civil war soldiers but I ask why would soldiers sending letters to loved one at homes or writing about the days battles and the loss of close comrades hold mention to what the time was a debate of politics? We can look to modern day letters soldiers write to home and seldom are politics mentioned as while in war their concern in the least is politics but rather those they love knowing they could be killed the next day. Self government of the South involves the protection of slavery and nearly the entirety of the Southern economy was based on slave labor in the cotton fields so despite con's attempt at deflecting the issue of slavery both the Southern government and economy all link back to one key issue, Slavery which is again why I reemphasize it begins the Declaration of Secession of almost every confederate state and is mentioned 83 times. My opponent tries to claim the Morilll tariff as the cause of the civil war but let us take a closer look at the tariff which was "adopted on March 2, 1861, During the administration of President James Buchanan, A Democrat" (Wikipedia. No single issue as I mentioned caused the civil war and it's beginning was a final explosion of build up through slow increased tensions between the North and South over the big issue, Slavery, The "northern control" my opponent speaks of was it's increased regulation on SLAVERY, The "northern aggression" my opponent speaks of is the Northern push to end the Southern lifestyle which included SLAVE work. It seems the con thinks of the Confederacy as a just cause in defending the South and gives a picture of innocent in the Confederacy but do not be mistaken for the Confederate states were full of racist who thought of themselves as superior to African Americans. The South economy ran on agriculture and manpower for this industry was supplied almost completely through the selling and auctions of slaves so yes the South declared war for economics and norther control but their economics were based on slavery something the north was starting to turn against. The South was undoubtedly a racist place before and after the civil war as we can simply look to the Jim Crow laws put in place almost immediately after the civil that allowed legal segregation, The South was racist. Establishing the South which made up the Confederacy was indeed one of racist attitudes I point out that my opponent has failed to address how a battle flag which was flown in the skirmishes of the civil war for a nation of traitors who were defending the immoral cause of slavery can not be in itself racist, The flag stood for the Confederacy and the Confederacy stood for the right of slavery, The right of slavery was racist.