No, no “extreme remorse”. But maybe acknowledge that flying the confederate battle flag, commemorateing confederate soldiers with statues and monuments, and saying shit like “the civil war was about states rights” isn’t really the right thing to do? You know… like, just stop defending the terrible shit that happened, stop pretending that it wasn’t about race and stop acting like YOU are personally being persecuted by having to learn how terrible our ancestors were.
No, no “extreme remorse”. But maybe acknowledge that flying the confederate battle flag, commemorateing confederate soldiers with statues and monuments, and saying shit like “the civil war was about states rights” isn’t really the right thing to do? You know… like, just stop defending the terrible shit that happened, stop pretending that it wasn’t about race and stop acting like YOU are personally being persecuted by having to learn how terrible our ancestors were.