Take down the CSA flags?

[Macfan4life]

So much is not understood while discussing the confederate flag. The Confederacy changed their flag many times during its existence. At one time the flag had a white middle so that the flag looked pure white when the wind was not blowing and it hung from the flag pole. This was to support white supremacy.
The "common" confederate flag was not the main flag of the confederacy. Robert E Lee used it as a battle flag in Virginia. This is why its also called the "rebel flag."

But here is the part which is not known that much and how the flag stands for racism. Southern States like Georgia and South Carolina never had the "rebel flag" as their state flag. In the late 50's the state of Georgia put the rebel flag as part of their state flag in retaliation of school integration. In 1962 the governor of South Carolina made the "rebel flag" the state flag of South Carolina in the peak of the civil rights movement. Georgia removed its rebel flag from its state flag years ago.

So this has nothing to do with history. If South Carolina always had the rebel flag as their official state flag then it would be about history. These rebel flags only showed up on state flags 100 years after the civil war and in response to African Americans getting equal access to schools, restaurants, and water fountains.
That is why these flags are used in racist ways. They were put there for a reason and that reason is not tradition or history.