One of the most controversial symbols in our country over the last century (if not longer) has been the Confederate battle flag. Recently, the debate over that flag has been amplified by the horrific killing of nine members of a South Carolina church by a man who admitted he did so because they were black, while taking pictures of himself with that flag.
The state of South Carolina, for years one of the biggest defenders of the flag, voted Thursday to remove it from the grounds of the state capitol in Columbia. The flag was removed on Friday.