[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11279]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

  (Mr. NADLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. NADLER. Madam Speaker, we must not display the Confederate battle 
flag in any Federal park or cemetery or building. The Confederate flag 
represents racism, slavery, and treason, waging war against the United 
States, killing American soldiers.
  We are told it represents the Southern heritage. It does represent 
part of the Southern, of the American heritage, a shameful part: the 
defense of slavery, of owning people body and soul, of the doctrine of 
racial superiority, and the practice of racial oppression.
  Other countries and peoples have shameful parts of their heritages. 
Germany, for example, has a Nazi heritage. The Germans are properly 
ashamed of it. They prohibit, by law, the display of Nazi imagery. The 
First Amendment won't let us go that far, but we should not honor the 
shameful parts of our history.
  As we continue the ongoing struggle to eradicate racism from American 
life, we must no longer honor racism and treason by allowing the 
Confederate flag on any Federal property.

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