...The Confederate flag is one of the most controversial figures of American culture. Some see it as a symbol of hate, but some see it as a symbol of pride and heritage. The debate about if it should be removed from public places as been going on for a long time. It’s all depends on what you think about it, but keep an open mind about this topic. Is the Confederate flag a flag of hate? A little history lesson; in the mid 19th century there was a large war on american soil. The Civil war was of the northern states ( California, Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Vermont), and the southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee) in America. The southern states (Confederacy) where for slavery and they then broke of from the Northern States. They then adopted the flag, and later they lost the war and the north and the south were reunited and together in peace....
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...The Confederate battle flag has a lot of issues surrounding it today. Some people think that it is a sign of racism, while others believe it to be a sign of their heritage. I believe that the confederate flag should not still fly today because it is used as a symbol of hate and racism as well as a symbol of white supremacy. Some people don’t have the general knowledge of the topic, so I will be covering that, as well as a case in texas regarding license plates with the flag on them, and its relation to the nazi flag. The confederate flag has become a symbol for many people about many different things. The meanings that this symbol holds is really in the “eye of the beholder” The viewer of the symbol can assign it to any meaning they want....
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...The Confederate flag has been one the most controversial and divisive symbol in American history. Recently, in the wake of the Charleston church shooting, the country has been in an uproar over the confederate flag. The shooting sparked discussion on whether the flag is hateful or represents the south’s history. Numerous people wanted the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house. Many people believe that the confederate flag represents southern pride and southern history, but in the mind of many others the flag represents slavery and the years and years of the oppression of African-Americans and other minorities. One of the reasons the confederate represents represents hate is that many hate-groups use it. Today, more than 500 extremist groups use the Confederate flag as one of their symbols, but the most known hate group that uses this flag is the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan’s predominant goal is to establish white supremacy in the south. Most of the KKK hate crimes target African-Americans, multiracial families, and interracial couples. The KKK also torched black churches and lynched mostly African-American people, or people that went against their beliefs....
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...Do Confederate Symbols Insite Racism? In recent months, there has been controversy concerning Confederate symbols. The Confederate flag has been one topic that was highly discussed. This flag does not represent racism. This flag is a tribute to all the soldiers that lost their lives fighting for what they believed in. After the Civil War, no one thought of the flag as being racist; although, the people that lived in the society that made and supported the flag were in fact racist. Despite this most everyone accepted the flag because it represented standing up for what you believe in, and the Confederacy, something that soldiers were willing to die for. Even though slavery is wrong, the South had their own opinions and they stuck to it. They were not willing to back down without a fight. People hang the...
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...Everyone’s opinion about The Confederate Flag based on their own thinking of what is slavery. The Confederate Flag symbolises the racism white people showed toward the black people. The black people were shipped through middle passage to North America to work as a slave on White plantations. Slaves couldn’t speak for themselves or fight for their own right. As years went by, Black people started to ask for their own right to the government and to do this they had to fight against the White. Abolitionist (people who tried to end slavery) created underground railroad and various strategies to get the slave to north to save them from all the suffering they were going through. After trying too hard as nothing worked out, North and South of United...
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...interpret things. The confederate flag is a part of American history. The way the flag is interpreted is different for different people. For some it represents states freedom, natural rights, and heritage. The confederate flag should not have been taken down at the Elizabethtown fair. The Elizabethtown fair takes place in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; at the fair this year two vendors were selling confederate flags. They were asked to stop selling the flags by fair security; both vendors stopped selling the flag. Firstly, banning the confederate flag is against the first amendment. “The First Amendment...
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...Many white supremacist feel that the confederate flag is their heritage and try to use that as an excuse for the flag to stay up.These individuals feel that the flag is not offensive and blacks should just get over it. Mississippi’s state flag containing the confederate battle flag has long time been a controversial issue, to some the flag is a symbols of hate, to others it's “Heritage.” Many people associate the Confederate flag with hate and being racist.The Confederate flag is used as the symbol for the Ku Klux Clan to back this claim up if you google kkk flag you see two flags, you see the kkk cross and the confederate flag. Mississippi is the only remaining state with the confederate flag in its imagery. Carlos Moore, an African American...
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...I am doing a debate topic about whether the government should fly the Confederate flag on government property. In my opinion I don’t think the government should be allowed to fly it on their property. My first reason for thinking this is because the government of America is supposed to represent all of the Americans. Yet they put up the Confederate flag which not even half of Americans approve of. The government is supposed to exercise power. It’s honestly an abusive political act. I can defend if someone has one in their house or front yard, but the government is a business and shouldn’t fly such a hateful flag. Secondly, the Confederate flag is a hateful flag that represents a time when America was divided and at war. It’s the flag that...
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...Confederate Flag Controversy On July 9, 2015 a bill was presented to the House of Representatives asking that the use of the confederate battle flag be discontinued due to the fact that it represents only pain, torture, humiliation, and racial oppression (Congressional Bills and Votes 2013). This bill was presented in the wake of the Emmanuel 9 shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Our elected officials, along with some American citizens are calling for knee-jerk legislation instead of taking time to get to the root of the real issue at hand. This type of legislation will only cause more tension and divide amongst the American people, when we need to start coming together as a nation. Seeking to destroy our history by removing it from...
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...Confederate Flag Controversy Jim Clyburn, I have a problem I would like to address with you, the Confederate Flag Controversy. Why do people have such different and, conflicting ideas of what the flag actually means. How did those different meanings, evolve? The Civil War started in 1861 and ended in 1865, but before it started they had the presidential election lead by republicans. Abraham Lincoln supported the idea of banning slavery in all U.S. Territory. The south saw it as a violation of their constitutional rights because they were gonna abolish it anyways but argued the north had a higher percentage because of industrial work. During the Civil War Confederate Soldiers saw the flag as a symbol of confederacy. It became a national...
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...The issue of banning the Confederate flag in public schools is one that is intertwined with one of the most core issues of American politics: the delicate balance between liberty and equality. No matter your personal interpretations, there is no doubt that the Confederate flag has been used to symbolize some of the darkest race-driven ideologies in the history of the United States. Not only do public schools have the legal right to ban such a symbol, they have the moral duty to restrict it to protect all of their students. This flag represents a type of hateful speech that cannot be allowed in schools. One of the core issues of the banning of the Confederate flag in schools is that it can be seen as a restriction of the freedom of speech. However, this concern is a simple issue of context vs. content. A student cannot be stopped from displaying the flag in their own home, but to protect other students from discrimination, they can and must be reasonably limited in the context of a public...
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...Recently, the Confederate Flag has been the center of a major controversy that has spanned the entire United States. Many writers, when speaking on the subject of the Confederate Flag, now use words like “racism,” “controversy,” and “a symbol of hate.” Other writers, like John M. Coski, use words like “cultural property” and “a very practical banner.” The Confederate Flag that we know today was actually not the official flag of the Confederacy. Instead, the “Stars and Bars,” as it was nicknamed during the Civil War era, was actually the battle flag. The design was adopted by the Confederate Congress in March 1861 because of its resemblance to the American Flag. So how did this Civil War era banner spark so much controversy within the American...
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...Demby effectively gets his opinion of being pro confederate flag by explaning why people still use degrading symbols from the past as “memories of family cookouts and first dates”. For example, Demby explains how someone could take wearing a Philly’s baseball cap as offensive to African Americans because of the history behind the team. He uses the word “stubborn” and states that “they were the last to integrate” to show that the team was being ridiculous and difficult when it came to integrating. He understands why someone would take offense to his hat, but says “it was a different time” and that history is “not really relevant to [his] hat”. He doesn’t wear the hat to show he support the actions that team took in the past, but he wears it to show “where [he’s] from” and its for [his] city”. His essay was effective in getting his...
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...boarded in international waters to search for two Confederate ambassadors. Using the Internet, libraries, and other research sources, research the Trent Affair. You should consider the circumstances, participants, and the outcome of this crisis to the North and the South. Construct a typewritten report to summarize your research findings. Use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation when constructing your report. Relations with the United States were often strained and even verged on war when Britain almost supported the Confederacy...
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...Assignment #1 – “America’s Post-Civil War Growing Pains” By Keith A. Watterson Strayer University Dr. Hammons Spring 2013 Two major historical turning points from the period in United States history know as Reconstruction, (1865-1877), were; how to integrate rebel states back into the nation and the social dilemma of how to integrate four (4) million newly freed slaves. This paper will show that almost all major problems faced by all people, (regardless of color or ethnicity), during this period, stemmed from these two conditions. These two turning points have an effect on current society in many ways. Though slavery has been over for many decades, America is still feeling the trickle down effects of this long gone institution. Black and White relations in the South (and North) though much, much better than many years ago, still has pockets of racism throughout the country. Also, though it is not as blatant as in the past, people still possess some of the same prejudices that they did in the 1800’s. Personally, this became evident to me during the last presidential election. Many people did not listen to what either candidate was saying but looked directly at their color, race, and ethnicity. I think this election divided America, though no one would say it publically. Once it was decided, everyone made their feelings known by saying “well I did not vote for this program or that program”, which was just another way of saying I did not vote for the candidate that...
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