I found it amusing that there are African American reenactors who are portraying confederate soldiers.

I am not sure if it's cluelessness or a bold step towards overcoming personal prejudice but I haven't found it to be a big deal (confederate pride that is) amongst the black people I know. (I prefer to say black vs African American because AA sounds as though they are still foreign in some way.)

I find it helps to study the history of the people and what they really fought for and the actual implications of various things on people's lives at that time before making sweeping accusations and furthering more than a century of prejudice.

Slavery is an inherently monstrous and inefficient system that inevitably leads to loss rather than gain for all parties. I find myself more aligned though with the arguments presented for the Confederate position in history than for the Union by force practiced by the north.

As to the confederate tartan? I probably wouldn't get a kilt in it simply because I have a host of other tartans that are much higher on my list.