Big Issue Over Student's Hanging of Confederate Flag

In an article by CNN, a college student at the University of South Carolina Beaufort named Byron Thomas hung a Confederate flag in his dorm. After numerous complaints from those passing by the commons, he was asked to take the flag down. Thomas, a black student, asserts that the flag stands for something other than division and racism. He believes it was given this negative stigma from groups like the KKK. The fact that this story is being aired exhibits the lasting sentiments from the slave era.