Confederate stands for rebellion not slavery now a days

I personally live in New Jersey (as I checked out your profile you do as well) and have heard people call others racist for bearing the Confederate flag out of their window of their truck. I have also heard the term fake rednecks as well. But not trying to commit an ad hominem here I just wanted to point out another view of the Northern States and going back to my first argument in round one that there is meaning behind that flag in current times that is correlated to determining the subjective and objective interpretation of the Confederate Flag whether, it simply stands for rebellion, slavery in relation to color superiority or both. In 2001 the Mississippi legislative in a state referendum had sixty four percent of the votes leaning towards not to change the current flag to thirty six percent to change the flag to the twenty stars that would replace the confederate flag. Note, almost sixty percent of individuals living in Mississippi are white compared to thirty seven percent who are people who are black as the residual percent falls in the left over ethnic categories. The estimated population in 2012 of Mississippi is 2,978,514 compared to the three million people plus that live in the United States of America. The U.S.A. has about thirteen percent of individuals below the poverty level. In Mississippi that average is twenty one percent. With a brief overview of understanding the dominant race in Mississippi I would like to peer deeper into this issue. There is only one person of color currently sitting at the lowest of the seniority hierarchy of the Mississippi Supreme Court (Justice King). Again King is not the first person of color to compose the Supreme Court of Mississippi but, I would like to note that in this power system it is mainly composed of individuals who are white. The white race still is in dominant roles across the spectrum whether in the police, fire department, Presidents, C.E.O.'s and so fourth when it comes to jobs and power whether local , state, or governmental. To look at the empirical statistics of the dominant race in Mississippi provides insight on who went out to the ballots but, furthermore. Now a broad black community (remember some people of color are not essentially African Americans but Jamaican Americans) does not necessarily subjectively react to the flag as one of hideousness and atrocity. Some see that flag as a symbol that their race in fact was the building block to what made this country what it is today through their slavery, their backbone toiling in the elements not the white folks. Others can see the flag subjectively as one that symbolizes their oppression and bring up hatred for the holder of that Confederate flag even if the holder of that flag does not wish to shed any feelings of contempt and oppression to another individual. Regardless if the flag was to harm someone personally specifically a person of color many white people just do not understand what its like to be oppressed and deal with the everyday monotony of being black. Whether it is driving while black, shopping while black (double conscience) and so forth being black makes everyday more challenging in a white superior country. A white man whether a wanna be redneck in the north, a racial bigot, or an honest historian protecting history can devastate someone subjectively when the Confederate flag is displayed in honor similar to how the Washington Redskins Mascot makes a mockery out of Native American culture. Native Americans being the real settlers of the land I personally sit on in my home, that land was stolen from them. For those with roots linking them to true Native American descent a dancing Indian at half time yelling "pow wow wow , pow wow wow wow etc.", and dressing up in a gown that is not right makes a mockery out of their culture and ancient beliefs. The Indian sound isn't the one many cartoons likened it to be but one of a heartbeat a simple drum to represent their noise not what many people in contemporary U.S. culture belief their dance and music to be. Objectively likened to this idea the flag does have history that relates to slavery and cannot be ignored as just simply a rebellion but historically and meaningfully has a deeper impact on those who see it psychologically when presented. I do not know or can know what racial group of individuals voted for and nah regarding the flag referendum to be retained in 2001, though that would be highly interesting if there was statistics to group the votes. To simply state that I am confederate can be to what is pertained in the dictionary as rebellious. Yes I can rebel from anything I perceive unjust or just for that matter if that was my stance on an issue. Slavery and the Confederacy are deeply correlated with one in another. But if the argument is simply regarding that any confederacy or union of people band together for something that has nothing to do with history or the Confederacy of the South then that has absolutely nothing to do with the flag and so forth in today's time. I can be a in a confederacy of men against the X issue and have no implication to the history of the confederacy just simply that I am confederate against X. It is difficult to determine the right and wrong of something. What is the essential significance of Right and what is the connotation of Wrong? How can the true significance of Right and Wrong be applied to this issue in contemporary times? To simply diminish slavery not tied to the Confederate flag cannot be Right. How someone subjectively interprets that flag can be clouded in Rightness or Wrongness. Mississippi does not allow anyone to own slaves which answers the question: Who has the right to someone else's body? Mississippi though displaying that flag has not diminished its roots in slavery. Though slavery is in fact illegal, Mississippi still waves the flag of Slavery high in the sky and that can be seen visually and be perceived as such now in days. Therefore if the flag of Slavery is flown slavery is just that and that flag represents Slavery. I can own a I hate X flag and not actively go out on a revulsion riot in opposition to X. But that X still has a meaning.