How ironic, notes The New York Times, that before, during and after a white shooter — whose goal was to ignite a race war — gunned down nine African Americans in a Charleston church, the Confederate flag continued to flap over South Carolina's state Capitol. Ironic still that on the day of the shootings, the U.S. Supreme Court told Texas it could continue to display the Confederate flag on the state's license plates.
This flag flap is not new. "But," writes The Times, "with a photo emerging of Dylann Storm Roof ... posing in front of a car with Confederate plates, the debate has been reignited on social media and beyond about whether the flag should be displayed, and whether politicians should continue to defend the flag as a symbol of Southern heritage."
