The Confederate flag you’re talking about originated from a design by William Thompson in 1863. And for him, there was no confusion about the true meaning of the flag that has now come to represent “Southern heritage.” He said, “As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.” He called that flag the “White Man’s Flag.”3 But that was revised into a third version. And the proliferation of that flag is all thanks to a group of white frat boys.
