confederate flag the controversy over taking down the flag should be covered and esp in regard to gov haley in that she shows no sign of understanding what the flag was all about esp that it was not ever about slavery or rascism but esp about states rights and invasion of south by north esp as of confederate soldiers families did not own and never had owned any slaves etc and blacks attempts to re write this history with distorted versions and rewrites should not be pandered to caved into over their endless distortions wilson picket iii sr