I love America enough to embrace the spirit of the Confederacy.

Demanding that the Confederate Flag come down from the state capital of South Carolina is nothing but a misguided attempt by Kweisi Mfume's NAACP and fellow cronies in an effort to keep milking white guilt with ever escalating demands, as if white society owes them everything in the name of racial equality.

Groups like the NAACP want to rewrite history and remove symbols they find offensive. What we have is a bunch of loud-mouthed individuals: ones who read that their ancestors might've been slaves at one time. Now, they want some sort of retribution from society. They keep whining until they finally win - mainly because people are tired of their whining.

There needs to be consideration for what the majority wants. Or is this no longer a nation of majority rule?

Southern states are criticized by blacks for symbols representative of the Confederacy - school mascots, flags, statues and memorials. The uninformed, who still believe the Civil War was fought over slavery, although only 10 percent of southerners ever owned slaves, view these symbols as racist. If they ever bothered to study history, they would learn the Confederacy stood for the same things the patriots, George Washington, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams did: against tyranny and abusive government.

The Civil War was a battle of state vs. federal power and the industrial North vs. agricultural South. The southern states had every right to secede from the Union, and the policies pursued after 1865 demonstrate the wrong side won.

Not everyone in the South was racist either. Robert E. Lee opposed slavery, believing that it had an evil effect on masters as well as the slaves. In fact, he freed slaves he had inherited. "Stonewall" Jackson also opposed slavery and was lambasted when he set up a Sunday School for slave children.

Despite these beliefs, they could not allow the destruction of their families and homes by a government who couldn't deal with the differing needs of the North and South.

This isn't the first time the racist NAACP has attacked South Carolina. In July, 1994, the NAACP organized a march in Myrtle Beach, S.C., to protest the flying of the confederate flag atop the statehouse.

Scores of people lined the streets in support of the flag. Riot police were brought in to prevent violent clashes. Kweisi Mfume called the event the largest civil-rights rally since the '60s. The NAACP called for a boycott of South Carolina if the flag wasn't removed by Labor day.

This proved useless, as poor people have no economic value to withdraw. The NAACP again called for an economic boycott of the state which began on Jan. 1. Another meaningless threat.

This is no civil-rights movement. It is a bunch of pessimists who are ungrateful and have nothing better to do than lambaste aspects of American history they know nothing about.

The Confederacy was, and is, deserving of immense pride and shouldn't be desecrated because blacks don't like them. For those who wish to see the Civil War as a war against slavery, consider this: Nearly 600,000 white men gave their lives, homes and families were ruined, land destroyed and a president killed so that we may be free.

No white today in America lived when slavery was legal, and they owe no apologies, reparations, preferential treatment or guilt for it. As an Asian, my ancestors weren't even here and have nothing to do with it.

Make no mistake, this isn't a racist attack. Blacks deserve equal opportunity and justice enforced through the laws. We shouldn't waste time attacking petty things like the Confederate flag. We should disband organizations like the NAACP and work on problem-solving skills and anger management. If we continue dealing with race relations the way we do, a balkanization of America will occur.