I don't see it as racist in this case. But I do believe it is a bit revisionist (or naïve) to downplay the fact that the confederacy was in large part an effort to preserve a clearly racist institution. I realize that many non-racist people want to cling to the romsntic or benign aspects of that era but they need to undertand that the romance of that time can't be looked at or celebrated without bringing to mind the bad.
Agree?
