General Lee Store

If I could give no stars, I would.
As an American living in Berlin, this store’s name AND the display of the Confederate flag on its premises is the most racist thing I’ve ever seen in a city that is otherwise wonderfully tolerant and liberal. You realise that a store that is selling AMERICAN goods should NOT display the flag of the traitorous Confederacy that tried to DESTROY the United States during the US civil war, right?
It would be funny if it wasn’t so disgusting. It would be like a German store in the US selling SS memorabilia and swastika flags for «fun.» Yea, I went there and Yea, it’s an exact analogy. The owner (s) of this store should be ashamed of themselves because (1) they either are totally ignorant of US history or (2) they know about our painful past with slavery in the US South and the civil war and they don’t care or (3) they do know all this and still think the Confederacy was «cool.» In any scenario, that attitude is TOTAL OFFENSIV in 2016.
That said, because I am an American lawyer, I do believe that people can say whatever they want — so whoever runs this store has the absolute right to display the Confederate flag and name his/​her store after a great American traitor. But I also have the right to my opinion and to let everyone I know who wants to buy American Lebensmittel in Berlin that there are much better stores to spend their Euros, because they certainly will never see any of mine.