Ted Cruz on Confederate Flag: I think often this issue is used as a wedge to try to divide people

“I understand the passions that this debate evokes on both sides. Both those who see a history of racial oppression and a history of slavery, which is the original sin of our nation, and we fought a bloody civil war to expunge that sin. But I also understand those who want to remember the sacrifices of their ancestors and the traditions of their states, not the racial oppression, but the historical traditions, and I think often this issue is used as a wedge to try to divide people.”  --Ted Cruz 06.20.15 [Washington Post]