The Confederate flag must be removed: Many Americans think that the Confederate flag should be removed for many reasons. One woman, author Monica Potts, wrote an article “ Why the Confederate flag must be removed,” published in 2015 in Vogue, and she argues that the flag not only represents hatred- slavery, the bloody aftermath of emancipation, Jim Crow, lynching- but hatred that is still with us. Potts begins by telling a personal story about how the flag was connected to the world she knew. However, at the end of the article Potts says that it is unclear to her the people in South Carolina and elsewhere see the rampant poverty, and the recent high-profile cases of police violence, and other things that removing the flag won't change.
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The flag had permeated her entire childhood- it was on license plates, on the rear window of pickup trucks, and on the front lawns. Now that I think about it, the confederate flag has always been around me while I was growing up as well. She also says how the massacre at Mother Emanuel evoked other violence in black churches that are within living history, most especially the bombing in 1963 of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four girls (Potts). Those four girls didn't even have a chance to get to live most of their lives because of this bombing. She continues by saying how shocked she was that the flag was still there after the massacre of the nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, but she was in even more shock that in 2015 the flag still had its
The flag had permeated her entire childhood- it was on license plates, on the rear window of pickup trucks, and on the front lawns. Now that I think about it, the confederate flag has always been around me while I was growing up as well. She also says how the massacre at Mother Emanuel evoked other violence in black churches that are within living history, most especially the bombing in 1963 of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four girls (Potts). Those four girls didn't even have a chance to get to live most of their lives because of this bombing. She continues by saying how shocked she was that the flag was still there after the massacre of the nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, but she was in even more shock that in 2015 the flag still had its