The confederate flag has been around for about 150 years. They are taking the confederate flag down from the battle ground and tv shows and now trying to ban it from school. They should not ban it because it goes way back. Just because the guy shot 9 black people, it should be banned. The confederate flag is a part of our hairitage, the civil war, and slavery. If you a confederate flag some people says it the hate that black and white have for each other and that's not true at all.
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A hundred fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy is on the run.
Statues of Jefferson Davis are under fire in Kentucky, so is the flag at Veterans Memorial Park in Wichita. Parents want to replace the Vestavia Hills Rebel Mascot near Birmingham. Tennessee may take down the bust of confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. It’s as if the end of the Civil War was front-and-center all over again. The Confederate battle flag is most at risk.
The flag was designed after the outbreak of the war by William Porcher Miles, the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, who aggressively supported slavery. The significance was clear: this means war. That war began in Miles own state when South Carolina seceded over the president’s opposition to slavery. Then 620,000 Americans died in the four bloodiest years of U.S. history. The Confederacy lost, but its battle flag endured as a symbol for the KKK, white supremacists, Dixiecrat opponents of civil rights like the late South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, and people buying into the effort to rebrand it as a symbol of southern pride and Confederate ancestry.The latest