The Confederate Flag is racist

"There are a few fatal flaws in your argument, first of all when this country was formed slavery was an institution and we were killing and displacing Native Americans left and right , this country was formed to protect our liberties but this didn't include slaves as you will see in article 4, section 4 of the Constitution, further more this debate is all about whether or not the flag is racist. Slaves don't have to be black,or a race other than those who enslave them.....starting in the early 1600's England began capturing Irish (white) people and selling them as slaves to all their various colonies including America." Yes, I know this, then the Muslims decided to kidnap the Africans because it is very easy to tell a slave from a free man if the slaves are all black, and the free men are all white. "This didn't start coming to an end until the Irish rebellion in 1798, and until this point the majority of slaves were white! Slave labor was not chosen on the basis of race but rather where they were the cheapest and most readily available. What made Africans so readily available you ask? African slaves were not simply knocked on the head and dragged back to the ships. The vast majority of African slaves were captured by rival African tribes." Actually, the Muslims went down into Africa, kidnapped Africans, brought them up to the middle east and sold them, then the Europeans decided "hey, these Native Americans keep dying and there isn't enough of them to do all this sugar island work", so they started buying Black slaves from the Muslims and then one guy said "hey, I got these Chinese slaves, how about they come over to slave also!" "Some were kept as their own slaves and some were sold to other countries. Most civilized countries were guilty of using slave labor at some point including the United States of America so why the hypocrisy? There is also hypocrisy regarding the unions stance on race and equality." I didn't say that our country was a slave nation, I just said that the confederate flag is racist. "Though they may have been in favor of abolition they didn't regard blacks as their equals as evidenced in a statement made by Abraham Lincoln that I quoted in round 2, and race is the key topic in this debate not slavery. The Dred Scott decision was made by the U.S. Supreme Court just 4 years before the civil war took place which ruled that a slave was still his or her masters property even if he or she ventured into a free state. Have you ever noticed that the time when talk of abolition started happened to coincide with the start of the industrial revolution? Perhaps it is mere coincidence , but I think not. The significance of the industrial revolution in relation to this topic is that it mostly took place in the northern states and by the time the south seceded the north's economy was primarily industry based nullifying slave labor as a necessity." I know that, the north wanted to get rid f slavery so the could institute "wage slavery", its genius! Under the wage slavery system, you get more money because the wage slaves are working at factories so it produces more money, additionally, slaves won't run away because technically they are free, isn't it great, someone can work for 14 hours a day in dangerous conditions with the ever present threat of being ludlow massacred if you should quit, and still be considered free! "The south on the other hand had a primarily agriculture based economy. The main thing that I would like everyone to take away from all this is that race and slavery were viewed much differently the world over. Everyone was guilty of it but society has changed and so have views on race, this includes the south as much as some would love to denounce us. Race does not have to be an issue in modern day America. It is an issue only because it is being manipulated for political agendas and it is driving us apart. It is to the benefit of liberal politicians to do so because they can use it as a tool to push for agendas that will get them votes."