Confederate Flag

Some students at our local University have bought into the whole victim motif which accompanies the DACA Program and now say that they are emotionally triggered when they see an American Flag, thus, they've asked to have the US Flag removed from the campus, and further believe the American Flag should not fly at any of California's State Universities or even at the Community Colleges in the state. Following the massacre in Charleston , South Carolina on Wednesday in which a gunman shot and killed nine people attending bible study at a historic black church, the Confederate battle flag — also called the rebel flag, the southern cross and the Dixie flag — has been the subject of contentious debate.
Many of those voices have become scarce in the days since the Charleston shooting Elected officials and public figures who have vocally defended the Confederate flag in the past and who ignored repeated requests for comment or declined to answer questions for this story include the president of the College of Charleston, the president pro tempore of the South Carolina state senate and a former speaker of the state house of representatives.



Following protests over this aspect of the design in the 1990s by the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) and other groups, efforts began in the Georgia General Assembly to remove the battle flag from the state flag's design.
The army quartermaster arranged to make prototypes of the pattern (the most famous of which were those made by sisters Jenny and Hetty Cary and their cousin Constance), and consigned the task of making 120 silk flags to 75 women in four Richmond churches.
Here, two-year-old Robert Hydrick holds a Confederate flag in front of a sign supporting the flag and opposing Charleston Mayor Joe Riley as the "Get in Step with the People of South Carolina" protest march against the flag progresses down South Carolina Highway 176 towards Columbia, April 5, 2000.

But that's certainly not everyone's motive, and it's certainly not the motive of those calling for the flag's removal at National Review It's simply undeniable that the Confederate battle flag is a painful symbol to our African-American fellow citizens, especially given its recent history as a chosen totem of segregationists.
After the civil war , a new law prescribed that 75% of a states male population would need to take the pledge to defend America, however less than 10% in most cases actually did, and these states were readmitted into the union, not necessarily of thier own volition but of the volition of the US.
The killing of nine African Americans inside a Charleston, South Carolina, church last week by a suspect who appears to have decorated online declarations of his white supremacist views with the Confederate battle flag has returned debate over the flag to the national stage.

Joseph E. Johnston suggesting that they ask the War Department for badge flags made of red with two blue bars crossing each other diagonally on which shall be introduced the stars….” Johnston agreed, but suggested that the battle flag pattern should be perfectly square and thus better proportioned.
The image at right shows a group of various captured Confederate flags being presented to the war department by none other than General George Armstrong Custer This vintage illustration includes both the "Stars and Bars", and the various battle flags.
This design became what we know as the Confederate flag today. Having no problem with the resemblance between the Confederate and the Union, the mistake was now between the Confederate flag and the white surrender flag, especially during calm, quiet days. Finally, some rich white southerners who had fought in the Civil War got an idea.

The Stars and Bars had a blue canton, or upper corner, with white stars, symbolizing the seceded states, and red and white stripes. When Confederate regiments marched off to war in 1861, many carried the Stars and Bars as their battle flags. And after the Battle of Okinawa a confederate flag was raised over Shuri Castle by a Marine captain from South Carolina.