These slanders have besmirched this grand old flag unchallenged for so long that it is being taken down by swinish politicians across Dixie and even some cowards in the Southern movement are backing away from it.
Lets take a look at history.
The original Ku Klux Klan was formed as a reaction to the tyranny and the wholesale abuses, including land confiscation, arson, robbery, disenfranchisement, rape, and murder that were rife under the carpetbag government of a vengeful US determined to make the South suffer and to turn a good profit while doing it. Like myrids of Celtic groups in the British Isles before them, the opressed people fought back the only way they could. That former slaves were suddnly not only in charge, but actually had far more rights than the disenfranchised white Southerners, and could in fact kill them without repercussion was intended to further insult and degrade the conquered people, and it had another even more devious purpose that placed the general black population between the hammer and the anvil while easing Dixie back into the union. The villan took off his blue coat and put on a black face. Even today, many Klan groups are fond of openly quoting Lincoln because of the tyrant's racist views.