re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

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Fought for the confederacy to defend the land that he owned. It genuinely means something different to him.

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Maybe he did fight for that, but the flag was used in battle by a side with the overall goal of maintaining white supremacy and slavery. A century later it was used by segregationists and racists to continue subjugating the black race.

There are better ways to honor one's ancestors than the flag of a losing side of a war, for a state no longer in existence. A war fought to maintain white supremacy.