Confederate Flag Research Paper

The Confederate Flag: Is it Heritage or Racism

It wasn’t until On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. in Charleston, S.C. a massacre had taken place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nine African-Americans lost their lives under the gun of a racist male by the name of Dylann Roof age 21. One of the persons murdered was the senior pastor of the Church, Clementa Pinckney, who also served as a state senator. It had been found that Roof had posted several photographs online of himself with the Confederate flag and other memorabilia that's associated with white supremacist movements. After this incident the state of South Carolina’s senate voted 37-3 to have the flag taken down from the Capitol building. This had been the …show more content…
Even when I was forced by the local school board to attend a school that utilizes it as their symbol along with the Colonel Rebel. No matter what the heritage could be behind this flag I will never be too much for it. The flag is a symbol of slavery and oppression. To many African-Americans, it is a symbol of racial terrorism. It represents the battle fought over the enslavement of black people. A symbol of resistance to the civil rights of African-Americans. It also represents years of lynching, Jim Crow, and black suffering. It served as an emblem of racial hatred of blacks and other ethnic minorities for many hate groups throughout history, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the Aryan Nations (white supremacist). And recently the flag served as a symbol of white supremacy and terrorism for …show more content…
The second flag which included the Battle Flag (Southern Cross) in the upper left hand corner placed on a white flag didn’t work either because if the flag hung limply it resembled a flag of surrender. Since the Stainless Banner flag wasn’t a hit they decided to put a red bar at the end of the flag and the new name became the “Bloodstained Banner.” Then along came the Confederate Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The battle flag is the most recognized Confederate flag-the most widely recognized of all flags of the Civil War apart from old Glory-and has become the single most identifiable symbol of the Confederacy. It is often flown by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists, which has made it a controversial and divisive symbol that represents cacial oppression to some and Southern heritage to others. Today, it is more likely to be a rectangle than a square.

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