About That Flag

by Tesa Marlin                                                                                                                                      Professor James W. Loewen explains in the Washington Post, the reason there even still remains a debate in America over the Confederate flag despite all of the documentation surrounding it’s inception, usage and reintroduction in the South, all deeply rooted in the white supremacist cause, is because systemic misinformation has been passed off as history. “The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about. We are still digging ourselves out from under the misinformation that they spread, which has manifested in both our history books and our public monuments.”