Confederate Poems - Poems about Confederate

Many white Americans still struggle with the issue of racism in the 21st century.This started with the Confederate monuments. The Confederate monuments do not have the same meaning to black Americans. While white americans view these works as a part of history, a past that cannot be covered over or changed ; the symbols of...

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~ NASCAR's Lowered the Confederate Flag ~ Until Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd's tragic deaths Bubba Wallace was just a black NASCAR race-car driver But watching their gruesome videos ignited a spark in him ~ Now Bubba's the driver of NASCAR's race change car...

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Ambiguity within mine doodling Yankee mind that arises, asper current hoopla harrumphing American Civil War statues, which verbal/written spat particularly regarding southern generals (many atop horses) arouses call to arms whereat, excited curiosity possibly twill incite dangerous extraneous, mutinous, treasonous tit for tat promulgation exhuming ghosts abolitionists of Dead Poets Society screeching like a wildcat signaling resumption, sans war between the states recruiting every able bodied proletariat after well nigh one hundred fifty four...

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Driving from Florida to Atlanta, snapped an image with my phone. Crossing the Georgia state line, I saw the rebel flag flying alone. Had seen this flag before. Used to fly with two others. Georgia and Tennessee, were its pole flying brothers. Don't see these flags much longer. Some people yelling loudly. We should no longer be sighting they say, a rebel flag flying proudly. Represented the...

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The Confederate Boy He never did anything to you You don’t even know his name Nor do you care to He never owned a slave All he did was fight for his country He was just thirteen when they took him Barely old enough to shave But he fought, and he most likely died For the freedom of his people And the liberty of his...

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The Unknown Confederate We’ll never know his name He was born an American A son of the US A son of the South Politicians decided his fate Drew a line between the states He fought for the side he was given We do not know how he died And that really doesn’t matter We know he died defending his homeland He was a Confederate soldier But, he...

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THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA SPEAK (IN REMEMBRANCE OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIER ALBERT PORTER) They were brainwashed by the White man. Persuaded that slavery had ended. However, still oppressed for twenty-some more years and when true freedom was known, therein, manifested racism. Now, they shout the Confederate Flag yet hangs. It needs to be brought down. Forget the bloodshed of the Southern White...

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Musings About the Confederate Flag By Elton Camp When the Confederate flag Joe saw He gazed at it, apparently in awe What is going through his mind Is he honoring the days behind? Or the future is he facing Not a sordid past embracing? What he’s thinking, none can know His facial expression doesn’t show Nostalgia for a past few did share? A gracious land of...

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Poet: Ken Jordan Poem: Confederate Flag Edited by: Sparkle Jordan written: July/2015 O'Dirty South,.....U'Dirty South your hatred, and storied history - is sadly legendary- Antebellum South, Your staunch racist beliefs was in place, long before the honourable General Robert...

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Confederate flag started out as battle flag sign of hate or not?...

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Hauteur brigand bound for gratuitous strand Knows not he is country's chattel, enemy's contraband As gallant marauders o'er ages spanned His quest for glory fate will countermand Gleeful lad starting out on quick, definitive errand Becoming grizzled veteran in war that will opportunistically expand Raw recruit ready to fight for: family, honor, land Feted for trivial pursuits, political ends; on mission clandestined Tailored...

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