Intent or not, ALL flags carry a bloody past. No country has won freedom without some form of war or death. America is no better, not all people who wave out the confed flag mean it to have the meaning of racism and such. Only the few who can't let go of the past, mainly the elders who are still stuck up in their ways of hate. There's having pride in being from the South and just being blind. Most that do wave the flag around are just doing it for pride and have no intent of saying that they represent hate and that people of a skin color should any better or worse than another.