The Confederate Flag

While I was the Mobile Museum of Art, I have seen a quilt completed by Yvonne Wells represents the truth behind the state of Alabama. This quilt has no title, but it tells everything. A building on soil ground with three flags on the very top hanging on the pole. One flag represent our freedom and independence; the second flag represent what state we are in, and another flag represent an unpleasant history that anger some people and proudly reminds other people about their history and their heritage. One side where my brothers and sisters are trying to pull it down because this flag is a reminder of our past in which we NEVER want to go back to. This flag is a reminder of our oppression, the injustice, the beatings with large whips that resulted in everlasting large trade-marks from them and bloody scars in the hands of our ancestors’ masters, the raping of our female African American ancestors who had no decisions when it came to there bodies. The bodies of our female ancestors belong to there white masters at anytime they wanted their lust and desires satisfied and fulfilled. It is also reminders of our original, true names were taken away and we were forced to adapt name made up by our masters, the education we couldn’t get in those days because in the past they like to think of black people as dumb and stupid. In the past we were considered property, we were not allowed to have our own mind or free-will of thinking, we were forced to adapt our masters’ opinion, the only thing we were allowed to do is obey them. Sometimes, there were some black people who were forced to take the role of their masters or their masters would teach some black people how to do a typical master’s job involving slaves if they were considered a “good slave”. This flag is a reminder of how white people wanted and actually fought to keep slavery on forever. I’m not sure whether black people were forced to fight in the civil war or whether it was a choice, but the fact remains that they were part of the civil war, and they couldn’t even get the same rights as white people have. Now on the other side of the building and the confederate flag, the white people want to keep the flag up because it reminds them about their “rich, southern history” and as I said before, their heritage. Some people want to go back to the way it was, the huge plantation houses, and the huge land filled trees. But what about us? This confederate flag is also a reminder of how slavery began; black people were taken away from their families. Black kings and black queens were tricked into coming into America and sold off as a piece of property. The people who decided to bring the confederate flag were not thinking about the black people and were not considerate of their opinion whatsoever. They actually thought black people would not be offended and angry about this. We flag has one more reminder: How we were kept in bondage and mentally chained all these years. Today, this real life image of art stands in Montgomery, Alabama on I-65 southbound