Thanks for this clarification. I was going to ask in response to another of your stories, what the background was, to your info that more black folk fought for the Union than fought for independence.
I wondered a lot about this since seeing so many old photos of black soldiers proudly posing in confederate uniforms and flags, obviously on the side of the confederates. There had to be more to that story than just that they might have been propagandised into fighting for the wrong side.
Now we can see the logic, and the white treachery that really was at work :)
It also explains why I read elsewhere a black woman saying she could not help feeling some wicked affection still towards the confederate flag.
Personally I like the confederate flag, imho it is more artistically attractive than the US national flag. It seems a trajedy to me that it has been mismaligned to become almost like a Nazi flag,
Banning / cancelling it achieves nothing for black folk, only helps obliterate a really important part of history, the politics around slavery at the time, and why black folk should feel no shame if they happen to like the confederate flag, actually they should defend it, it has some special validity to the cause of ending racial prejudice, I think.