Black college student hangs Confederate flag in dorm room, admits it’s “kind of weird”

Thank you Byron for standing for the truth instead of what others have tried to turn this flag into. You "ROCK" brother !

I am white and I agree with this guy,I'ts about time we have a true AMERICAN.Right on bro hang it proudly.

White kid would be kicked out of the school and embarrassed publicly, calling his reasons #$%$

Good for him! Sure glad to see that someone knows history. Most people, including the NAACP, do not know their history, and are simply ignorant racists. If someone is flying a Confederate flag for the right reasons, namely states rights, or for their heritage, I see no problem with it. The only problem is when they are flying it in the name of racism.
Incidentally, the flag in the picture isn't even the Confederate national flag. It's the Confederate battle flag, and since this particular one is rectangular in shape, it's a naval flag.

Finally someone who understands the meaning of this flag! Maybe others will follow. I love this flag and I'm not racist, just proud to be from the South! "Southern born Southern bred Southern til the day I'm dead." :)

Slavery was a dark chapter in our nation's history, as was the unfair treatment and outright bigotry towards black Americans that lasted well into my lifetime. Its time, however, to move on! Remember that history, as those who don't are doomed to repeat it, but we can't continue to divide ourselves over skin color because of bad history. We're ALL americans...my generation is probably the closest we've come so far to realizing that, and unfortunately there are holdouts on BOTH sides that preach hate to their children and neighbors, and hold us back. A black man that chooses to fly the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of heritage and history, flying in the face of decades of that same flag being perverted into a symbol of oppression and hatred, is a step in the right direction in my opinion.

Someone is just erasing all comments on here they don't like. Censorship is ridiculous. I love how all the comments from black people have been either erased or deleted. This boy is an embarrassment to everyone.

Byron be prepared you will get alot of nasty comments from your own race man an probably from Jessie an Al .

If he were white I guarantee the school would have made him take it down.

One of the quarrels between the North and the South concerned taxes (tariffs) paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. Southerners thought those tariffs unfair and were aimed specifically at them, as the South imported a wider variety of goods than Northern people. Moreover, Southern exporters sometimes had to pay higher amounts for shipping their goods overseas and to pay unequal tariffs imposed by foreign countries on some of their goods. Also, Southern banks paid higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. The inequities grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investments. These small annoyances were insufficient to cause a major breach between the two parties, with the exception of the tariffs.

Byron, you are 100% correct. My generation (I'm 58 yrs. old, Southern, white) was brought up to feel the same way as you feel....at least where I live. I am glad that I am a Southerner, and do not care what other people's skin color is, just happy to be raised here in North Carolina. The flag represents exactly the same thing to me, as it does to you. We have a beautiful surrounding, good people, and hopefully we can hang on to the manners, upbringing, and attitude that all well brought up folks have been taught by their parents and grandparents. Do not let anyone influence you with any negativity, keep thinking for yourself, and may God Bless you always with success and happiness! Hopefully, all colors of people will be granted their freedom of speech.

Number of Africans deported to the Americas by the Europeans: about 10-15 million.The modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people. In most instances, no violence was necessary to obtain those slaves. Contrary to legends and novels and Hollywood movies, the white traders did not need to savagely kill entire tribes in order to exact their tribute in slaves. All they needed to do is bring goods that appealed to the kings of those tribes. The slave trade was abolished by Britain in 1812, and subsequently by all other European countries. Portugal and France, though, continued to import slaves, although as contract labourers, which they called respectively "libertos" or "engages a` temps". Portugal had a virtual monopoly on the African slave trade to the Americas until the mid 1650s, when Holland became a major competitor. In the period 1700-1800 Britain became the leading "importer". In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were continuing the trade like before. The civil rights movement of the 1960's have left many people with the belief that the slave trade was exclusively a European/USA phenomenon and only evil white people were to blame for it. This is a simplistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts.
Thousands of records of transactions are available on a CDROM prepared by Harvard University and several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery (namely, Hugh Thomas' The Slave Trade and Robin Blackburn'sThe Making Of New World Slavery) that shed new light on centuries of slave trading.

I agree with Byron but, I have to question if this was a white college student that hung the flag in his dorm, would it be viewed as kindly as it is for Byron. Not racist, just wanting a true answer from some.

The flag and the south belong to him too! He takes pride in where he lives.In one action he took the power out of the hands of the people who misrepresented the flag and the south. I find it ironic all the racist and ignorant comments are coming from others of color and people not of the south. Yet the people of the south,who are told by the world to be racist are embracing this guy,supporting his right to free speech and equality,while the rest of you spew hateful and ignorant comments. If you want to know more truths look up where all the racist hate crimes are according to the Poverty Law Center- hint,it isn;'t in the south. I know it is hard to swallow but there are more truths than most of you care to realize.

My gosh a black person who prefers to be called black instead of African American. He is a hero in my book. If you are born in this country you are an American and if born in African you are an African. No if and buts about it. I can not help where my ancestors came from but I was born in the USA and therefore I am an American. Proud this young man can think for himself.

I love how the University decided to support free speech when they found out it wasn't a white kid flying the rebel flag. Nice double standard there U of SC.

I personally don't care what people do in their own homes or in their dorm rooms, but I do have a problem with double standards. If he were a white student, he would have been told to take the flag down - end of story. But because he's black, he gets to keep it. I just don't understand this. If a black calls another black the "n-word" nobody cares, but if a white uses the word, it's a hate crime. Can we just please quit the double standards?

His room, his flag, no laws broken, Thousands #$%$ off - Priceless

If it was a white kid with exact same message, obviously it would not be tolerated by the university.

The swastika was never considered a hate emblem until Hitler perverted it. There was a native American basketball team in the early 1900's that had swastikas on their uniforms. Much the same can be said about the confederate flag. It originally was the symbol of Southerners protecting their homes and families. Then, after the disaster called "Reconstruction", the Klan did with it what Hitler did with the swastika.