Describe the efforts to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, and explain how the situation reflects the ways that symbols can have radically different meanings for different groups of people

Please provide the best answer for the statement.


1. A summary of the events, including the racially motivated murders in Charleston as well as activists’ and politicians’ efforts to remove the flag.
2. The ways that opinions about the removal of the flag were strongly influenced by people’s race or political position, and how this reflects the ways that the meanings of symbols are impacted by identity.

Sociology

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