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 …show more content…
He has also written for CNN, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. In his article, “Goodbye to the battle flag,” Tim Stanley writes on the Confederate battle flag’s vast history, recent events in the progress of the Confederate flag deliberation and the change in the identity of America and how it relates to the Confederate flag controversy. In the beginning of his article, Stanley begins to present his idea that the Confederate battle flag controversy caused or is at least related the movement entitled “Black Lives Matter” by informing the audience of an event that occurred when an African-American activist climbed the flagpole on the State House of Columbia, South Carolina and withdrew the Confederate battle flag from the flagpole. Many writers on this paper either tell where the Confederate battle flag came from or skip ahead to today and state many controversial events that are occurring in today’s society. Stanley, however includes the resurface of the Confederate flag as a southern staple, citing a 1948 copy of a student handbook from the University of Mississippi that states, “‘Ole Miss has adopted the Confederate flag as a symbol of the Mississippi spirit.’” Stanley closes his article by bringing light to the change in culture and the “death of southern traditionalism” and predicting the removal of the Confederate battle flag and its replacement by the gay rights flag or the “rainbow