Confederate Flag Argument Essay

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The third article I found is called, “What Happens When The Contentious Confederate Flag Debate Comes To A Sleepy Virginia Town.” Jack Jenkins is the author and the site gives a little bit of background as to what he has written and that is has been a reporter with his work appearing in the Huffington Post. The article was written recently and has reliable quotes from the curator of the museum featured in the article. I chose to use this source because it has in depth coverage on both sides of whether or not to take the confederate flag down in a public space. Both sides have good arguments and it was one of the first articles that I found that showed both sides of the argument and was bias. The article begins with some background on the shooting in South Carolina and the domino effect it had. The South Carolina State House has the Confederate flag flying on its grounds and many people called for its removal. Store began to refuse to sell the flag in their stores and Alabama took the flag off of its capitol grounds. The Confederate flag was being removed from many different places in a haste. The author decided to follow a story in …show more content…

The flag is the first thing that people see when approaching the museum and to some it is a scary site. The town was outraged by their request to take it down and they were prepared to fight. Both sides had good arguments, but the biggest debate was about state law. The flag has a base that is a monument for the confederate soldiers. The Southern Legal Resource Center went defend the monument and said that it was against the law to take down or mess with the monument that was for veterans. The Southern Legal Resource Center said that they would sue if they decided to move forward with taking it down. The city stopped their pursuit to remove the

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