Resolved: The United States Federal Government should ban the Confederate Flag in all 50 states.

Hello once again, my name is Forever 23 and I am here on the third round to show you why the Confederate Flag should be banned. Since I already refuted my opponents 2 points in Round 2, I would just like to weight the debate for you. The first argument the prop brought up was that the Confederacy incited racism. The ideals of the Confederacy revolved around slavery, racism and inequality. The Confederacy was the model of a terrible, unequal nation. Since right now, we are trying to have a country in where there is no supremacy among nations, this flag is not fit to be. Now, the Ku Klux Clan and the neo-Nazis use this flag as a symbol of their hate towards others. It is unacceptable to allow for the state sponsored flying of a flag used to suppress citizens. This flag which represented and is currently in connotation with the Confederacy should indeed be banned. Forever, that flag will be remembered as a smear and as the hypocrisy of America. We are blessed to live in a nation which stands for equality. As we have seen, the advancement liberal social change has proven to be inevitable, weather it was women suffrage or homosexual rights this country moves toward the notion that all men were created equal. In fact the highest court in the land holds the motto "Equal Under Law". That is this country, but the CAS did not believe in this they wanted equality for the few and suppression for the rest. while you may be sold on the fact that the Confederate flag represents freedom of speech and states rights, those rights were to have slaves. Which brings me back to my point this country is based around the notion that we are equal and we should not fly a flag, whether is meant or has adopted the meaning of inequality. Ladies and gentleman, I do not support the limitation of speech but I support the principles of this country and the notion that equality is what makes this country strong. Therefore, we should not allow for the institutionalized racism brought forth by the flying of this flag. Clearly, from my previous speeches, and from this one, you were able to see how all of my opponents arguments did not apply to the confederate flag. You have seen that the notion of the freedom of speech has been easily refuted when we stated that the free speech applies only to the act of non violence and offense. The flag may offend African Americans. And you have also seen that the notion that the flag meant unity was only a thin veil to cover the true meaning of this flag since the ideals of this country did not symbolize freedom. They symbolized slavery. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy " a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. Thank you. Please vote for the proposition