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NEW YORK (AP) -- Trace Adkins wore an earpiece decorated like the Confederate flag when he performed at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony, but says he meant no offense by it.
Adkins appeared with the earpiece on a nationally televised special for the lighting on Wednesday. Some regard the flag as a racist symbol and criticized Adkins in Twitter postings.
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But in a statement released Thursday, the Louisiana native called himself a proud American who objects to any oppression, and says the flag represents his Southern heritage.
He noted he's a descendant of Confederate soldiers, and says he did not intend offense by wearing it.
Adkins -- on a USO tour in Japan -- also called for the preservation of America's battlefields and an "honest conversation about the country's history."
The conferate flag is an "enemy" flag!
It flew in direct opposition to the Stars and Stripes. The Confederates sought ot divide this country. Their reasons don't matter! Their reasons are no different from moost you go to war with and they had less cause than the Native AMericana. They were wrong!
Many died and the Stars and Stripes won!!!!!
What an insult that whites can be allowed fly the ENEMY flag of the LOSER and often do it right next to the American Flag!
Yet those who support this practice resent Puertorican flags, Jamaican flags, ect -though flying these in America is new compared to dragging out the Confederate flag.
{{BTW- the Confederate flags use was waning until the late 1950's when the Civil Rights movement really stepped up. It was a direct backlash to disegregation}}
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