Because the South had slavery. That's true. Lest we forget, which apparently we have, during the entire history of the Confederate States of America, the North had slaves, too. Yet, the groups that scream and squirm anytime the "Stars and Bars" is flown or a gray uniform is worn say nothing about the flag of the United States or the Union blue, even though slavery ended in the Union at exactly the same time it ended in the Confederacy.
Julia Dent Grant, the wife of General Grant owned slaves and retained them all through the war, even bringing one of them with her to visit Grant in the South after the surrender was signed at Appomattox Court House. One could make the argument that the only slave still in the South after the war belonged to General Grant.
Of course, why would we expect college students to know that?
A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.
The Virginia-based Kappa Alpha Order issued new rules to chapters earlier this year saying members aren't allowed to wear Rebel uniforms to parties or during their parades, which are a staple on campuses across the South.
The decision, announced in an internal memo posted on the group's website, followed a flap last year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where a black sorority complained after a KA parade stopped in front of its house on campus. KA members were dressed in the gray uniforms of Confederate officers, and young women wore hoop skirts.
More than 70 alumnae of the sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, sent a petition to Alabama President Robert Witt complaining about the use of Confederate flags and uniforms on campus.
In the memo to chapters, Kappa Alpha's national executive director, Larry Wiese, said such displays had to end.
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