Persuasive Essay On The Confederate Flag

Some people call it racism, and others call it respect and loyalty. The confederate flag has different views on everyone who lives in South Carolina; an example would be Bree Newsome. Many of us know that the purpose of the civil war was to give slaves their rights and treat them equal. Many people say this flag represents history, a sign of respect for the people who fought in the civil war, and Southern pride. Others like Bree Newsome believe that many people misinterpreted the meaning of the flag, and use it as a racist symbol towards African Americans. Many people were protesting for the flag to stay in the pole, while others were protesting for it to come down. The court came to the decision of bringing the flag down. In my opinion the

But on the other hand, a few people mistake the meaning of the flag. The northern states were fighting for equal rights and eventually gained more support, which led them to win the war. On June 27, 2015 Bree Newsome and James Tyson participated in the act of bringing the Confederate flag down from the capital of South Carolina. Newsome climbed a thirty-foot pole to bring the flag down. Even though she accomplished to bring the flag down, as soon as she stepped on the ground she got arrested and the flag was put back up immediately. The flag was flying in the South Carolina capital lawn, so that anyone who was passing by the capital would see it, and it was also padlocked into the pole. The reason the flag was up was because it is a symbol of heritage, southern pride, and because it shows respect to the troops who lost their lives during the civil war. In this essay I am only going to talk about whether the Confederate flag should stay up in the capital of South Carolina. I am not talking about all the other flags that citizens have hanging in their houses or any other

As we can imagine there are two sides when it comes to the controversy of whether the flag should be put back up, or whether it should stay down. Grady A. Brown, who is a democrat and a descendent of a confederate soldier, claims that the flag should stay down and be kept in a museum. Brown states, “I want my friends back home, on both sides of the issue, to know that I’m doing what I’m going to do, to vote to take the flag down, because I think it is, in God’s eyes, the right thing to do.” Brown is insisting that the right thing to do is to keep the flag down because it is offending many people, and there are other ways of honoring the troops who fought in the war. In addition, Neal A. Collins, who is a republican, also claims that the flag should be kept down. In Collins view, “I do support removing this Confederate battle flag, as much as a I respect it. It’s time for our state to use this opportunity to heal.” In making this comment, Collins argues that we should keep the flag down, and move on and focus on bigger things that are happening right now. When Collins mentioned that the state should use this opportunity to heal, he meant that they should be focusing on things that can actually affect everyone in the future and stop trying to change the meaning of a flag that was used in the 1800’s.